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  Musician teaches young girls that modest is hottest

  Musician Jaime Jamgochian designed a popular "Modest is Hottest" T-shirt and started a conference that focuses on teaching young girls how to dress in the latest styles while maintaining modesty.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Abilene couple cooks for missions, ministries

  Bill and Janis Altom of Abilene have baked more than 10,000 cookies for Hardin-Simmons University students over the years and helped to raise money for missions at the same time.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Faith Digest: Church attendance up

  A new Gallup Poll found Americans’ self-reported church attendance has increased slightly since 2008.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Lines of church-state separation may get blurry in disaster zones

  Relief workers acknowledge the close working relationship between government and religious agencies may blur the lines of church-state separation, especially when the desperation of victims pushes such concerns to the back burner.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Churches start their own humanitarian aid agencies

  As American Christians grow more skeptical and less dependent on traditional institutions, individual churches are starting their own humanitarian aid organizations, doing their own projects on their own terms.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Buckner seeks adoptive family for special-needs baby

  Buckner International is hoping to find a family to adopt a seven-month-old special-needs boy born with spina bifida.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Baptist Briefs: Crumpler honored

  Carolyn Weatherford Crumpler, former executive director of Woman’s Missionary Union and a past moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, received the annual Courage Award from the William H. Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society during the CBF general assembly in Charlotte, N.C.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

• Texas Tidbits

  A best-selling college guide for college-bound students and their parents has named Baylor University a “Best Buy” for the fifth consecutive year.

  07/14/2010 - By admin

• On the Move

  Javier Alamanza to Flatonia Church in Flatonia as student minister.

  07/14/2010 - By admin

• Around the State

  East Texas Baptist University will be a host site for the Global Leadership Summit 2010 Aug. 5-6.

  07/14/2010 - By admin

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  Pastors more like webslinger than Man of Steel

  Pastors are more like Spider-Man than Superman, Kevin Cosby told participants at the 2010 African American Fellowship Conference July 13 in Houston.

  07/14/2010 - By Administrator

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  ‘Good News Bible’ translator Bob Bratcher dies

  Robert Bratcher, the New Testament translator for the Good News Bible, died July 10 at the Carol Woods retirement community in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 90.

  07/13/2010 - By Administrator