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  Guest editorial: The pastorate is a full life

  Pastor Ron Session shares the trials, sorrows, tedium, joy, sacredness and privilege of being a pastor—God’s servant and Christ’s ambassador.

  01/31/2024 - By Ron Session

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  Voices: Mental health care needed for small town ministry

  Small town ministry comes with its own set of challenges. Accessible mental health care can help ministers and their families face them.

  01/30/2024 - By Joe and Ruth Cook

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  Voices: Leadership in the age of AI

  Joshua Longmire explores some benefits and challenges of AI for leadership and recommends basic guiding principles.

  01/29/2024 - By Joshua Longmire

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  Letter: Opposition to SWBTS ads in Baptist Standard

  A Baptist Standard reader expresses his displeasure with Southwestern Seminary ads in the Baptist Standard and calls Texas Baptists to respond.

  01/27/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Commentary: AI imagines Trump and Biden as buddies

  Some AI-generated images of Trump and Biden as friends spurred Karen Swallow Prior to think about the perils and promises of AI.

  01/25/2024 - By Karen Swallow Prior / Religion News Service

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  Editorial: Lament is a proper response to SBC news

  SBC news has not been heartening this week, and not just for Southern Baptists, but for all followers of Christ. Lament is a proper response.

  01/24/2024 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Letter: Editorial: Is religious liberty for Christians only?

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to Editor Eric Black’s editorial critiquing some Christian natioanlists’ view of religious liberty.

  01/23/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Voices: Ministry in a fractious and fearful world

  How can pastors lead people who feel they are under existential threat and the stakes in this year’s elections could not be any higher?

  01/23/2024 - By Wade Berry / B.H. Carroll Theological Seminary

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  Voices: Spiritual formation is part of the Great Commission

  “The calling of every Christian person is to become more fully conformed and united to Christ.” This is what spiritual formation is about.

  01/22/2024 - By Ben Simpson

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  Editorial: Is religious liberty for Christians only?

  Is religious liberty for Christians only? For Baptists to answer this and related questions, they need to know themselves and their history.

  01/17/2024 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Commentary: A critique of Franklin Graham’s compassion

  A Palestinian Christian sees a contradiction between Franklin Graham’s responses to the war in Gaza and church blessings of same-sex couples.

  01/16/2024 - By Jack Nassar

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  Voices: Pastoring people who embrace conspiracy theories, part 2

  Pastors more frequently face the question, “How do I pastor someone who embraces conspiracy theories?” Ross Shelton offers guiding principles.

  01/15/2024 - By Ross Shelton