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  Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood unimpressed by new NIV

  A group that criticized the New International Version Bible translation for introducing a gender-inclusive edition in 2005 says it isn't satisfied by revisions in the latest edition recently available online.

  11/22/2010 - By Administrator

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  Midland church to consider BGCT executive director as pastor

  Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Director Randel Everett will preach at First Baptist Church in Midland Dec. 5 in view of a call as senior pastor.

  11/22/2010 - By Administrator

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  Group’s 2011 hunger report praises new federal program

  In the latest edition of its annual report on global food insecurity, a Christian anti-hunger group praised efforts by President Obama’s administration to battle world hunger but warned that cutting food aid due to budget concerns would be short-sighted.

  11/22/2010 - By Administrator

• Baptist church in Burma ordered to halt worship services

  A local government in Myanmar ordered a Baptist church to cease worship services after the pastor refused to wear an election campaign T-shirt supporting the country's ruling military junta, Compass Direct News reported Nov. 18.

  11/19/2010 - By Administrator

• U.S. opposes U.N. ban on defamation of religion

  The United States continues to oppose a proposed ban on defamation of religion currently before the United Nations, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Nov. 17.

  11/18/2010 - By Administrator

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  Listen to encouragement from the balcony, not voices from the cellar

  To be emotionally and spiritually healthy, people must listen to the voices that call from their “balconies,” not the whispers from their “cellars,” Kyle Childress urged during the first Faith and Trauma—Light and Darkness Conference in Nacogdoches.

  11/18/2010 - By Administrator

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  Atheist, Intelligent Design proponent debate God’s existence

  The God of Christianity either is a capricious tyrant who threatens those who reject him with the penalty of everlasting torture, or he is a loving Creator who came to suffer with beings made in his image and provide them eternal life, according to the competing views of two scholars who debated at a suburban Dallas megachurch.

  11/18/2010 - By Administrator

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  Georgia Baptists oust second church with woman pastor

  For the second year in a row, the Georgia Baptist Convention has withdrawn fellowship from one of its most historic member churches for calling a woman as pastor.

  11/16/2010 - By Administrator

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  Palestinian-American Christian says eschatology can distort justice

  End times theology that equates the modern state of Israel with the Israel of biblical prophecy has caused some evangelical Christians to let eschatology trump ethics when it comes to the Middle East, a Palestinian-American Christian told a general session at the Global Faith Forum at NorthWood Church in Keller.

  11/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  Love of God communicated best in multi-ethnic churches, pastor insists

  Churches in the United States are 10 times more segregated than the neighborhoods in which they are located and 20 times more homogenous than the nearest public schools, the pastor of a multi-ethnic church in Arkansas told the Global Faith Forum, a multifaith gathering at NorthWood Church in Keller.

  11/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  Civility should rule in global public square, social critic asserts

  In an increasingly connected world where “religion is furiously alive,” the matter of how people of faith can live with their deep differences assumes growing importance, social critic and author Os Guinness told the Global Faith Forum at NorthWood Church in Keller.

  11/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  U.S. is feeling charitable, just not through churches

  Americans are being more generous to religious charities, but why are they skimping on their giving to churches? A new report found that from 2007 to 2008, giving to religious charities went up, but giving to churches went down.

  11/12/2010 - By admin