Texas
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Public baptisms make a statement to community
As a way to empower individuals to make a faith statement to a community, some congregations are moving their baptisms from inside a church baptistry to outside in public places.
05/20/2010 - By admin
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Music minister adds to massive collection one hymnal at a time
Ever since he discovered at a second-hand bookstore a 1937 Stamps-Baxter paperback edition of Favorite Radio Songs from KRLD in Dallas– autographed by Virgil Stamps– Ron Veal's been hooked on hymnals.
05/13/2010 - By admin
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Religious leaders decry proposed Texas textbook standards
Two Baptist ministers joined about two dozen other religious leaders in a May 12 press conference at the Texas Capitol to decry school textbook standards they say would weaken instruction about religious liberty and the separation of church and state.
05/13/2010 - By Administrator
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Book says white churches can learn from blacks
After resigning abruptly in 1992 from one of the largest and most influential churches in the nation, First Baptist Church in Dallas, and going through a divorce within two years, Joel Gregory's ministry appeared to be over. Through it all, he says, one minister kept calling him.
05/13/2010 - By Administrator
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Chilean pastors living in tents as winter approaches
More than two months after an earthquake rocked Chile, rains have begun and winter soon will arrive, leaving a group of Baptist pastors bracing for the cold in small tents that have become their impromptu homes in the wake of the disaster.
05/12/2010 - By admin
