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  2nd Opinion: Gun massacres: Why aren’t more churches telling the truth?

  Why aren’t more churches or public faith leaders telling the truth about America’s unique scourge of gun violence?

  11/08/2017 - By Jacob Lupfer / Religion News Service

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  Tom Billings: ‘No one church can reach a city by itself’

  Tom Billings, executive director of Union Baptist Association, discusses his calling and mobilizing Houston-area congregations to “take on lostness.”

  11/08/2017 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Commentary: After Sutherland Springs, pray … and do something

  After another mass shooting, praying is doing something. But should we be doing something in addition to praying?

  11/08/2017 - By Richard Mouw

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  Commentary: Why isn’t the church a leader in calling out sexual harassment?

  After being sexually harassed while serving at her first pastorate, Pastor Amy Butler calls out the church and herself in their complicity of “just taking it.” (Baptist News Global)

  11/08/2017 - By Amy Butler

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  Commentary: The quiet religious-freedom fight that is remaking America

  A federal law was supposed to put an end to the use of local zoning laws as tools of discrimination. It hasn’t. (The Atlantic)

  11/08/2017 - By Emma Green / The Atlantic

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  Letters to the Editor: Alleging racism; Jeffress’ Hannity interview

  Baptist Standard readers respond to recent articles about racism and Pastor Robert Jeffress’ interview of TV personality Sean Hannity.

  11/08/2017 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Commentary: What do we do in the aftermath of another mass shooting?

  In the aftermath of the worst shooting in Texas history at First Baptist Sutherland Springs, Ferrell Foster argues that all churches should hire professional security.

  11/06/2017 - By Ferrell Foster / Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission

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  Voices: The power of ordinary faithfulness

  Lives that truly change the world love God and love neighbor in the everyday tasks of washing dishes, dropping kids off at school, meeting for coffee, checking cows and buying groceries.

  11/01/2017 - By Zac Harrel

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  Alan Lefever: Christian history is ‘exciting, poignant and humorous’

  Alan Lefever, director of the Texas Baptist Historical Collection and an adjunct professor at Truett Seminary, shares his thoughts on preserving Texas Baptist history.

  11/01/2017 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Commentary: Why pastor Robert Jeffress’ interview with Sean Hannity was so maddening to so many

  When Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church Dallas, interviewed Fox News host Sean Hannity, many opposed it for its commingling of church and politics.

  11/01/2017 - By Jonathan Merritt / Religion News Service

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  Commentary: Are Baptists still reforming?

  Five hundred years after Reformation Day, Molly T. Marshall wonders if Baptists are still reforming themselves. (BNG)

  11/01/2017 - By Molly T. Marshall / Baptist News Global

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  Commentary: Are religious people more moral?

  “What is the actual evidence on the relationship between religion and morality?”

  11/01/2017 - By Dimitris Xygalatas / The Conversation