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  For the second year in a row, the Georgia Baptist Convention has withdrawn fellowship from one of its most historic member churches for calling a woman as pastor.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

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  Wayland graduate from Japan recalls experiences

  Forty-seven years after Yoshiko Shiga Burke crossed the Wayland Baptist University stage to receive her diploma, she looks back fondly on her time at the school and the influence it had on her teaching career in her native Japan.

  11/11/2010 - By admin

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  Hope invigorates, new president tells BGCT

  God is calling Texas Baptists to meet the challenges before them to claim and spread the hope that God provides, Victor Rodriguez said during the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting sermon.

  11/11/2010 - By admin

• Texas Baptists choose morning of missions activity

  More than 200 participants at the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting ventured out of the McAllen Convention Center to pray for people in need, care for the hungry and share the hope of Christ.

   

  11/11/2010 - By admin

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  Libel suit by South Texas church starter dismissed

  A libel case brought against the Baptist Standard, the Baptist General Convention of Texas and other parties by church-starter Otto Arango has been settled.

  11/11/2010 - By admin

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  Foster care group home offers refuge in perilous city

  Violence in Juarez, Mexico, hasn't prevented the children and staff at the Buckner International foster group home from reaching out, said Buckner Mexico Director Juan Carlos Milan.

  11/11/2010 - By admin