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  Guest editorial: Everyone needs to go to Arabia

  What is required to break free of the “mile wide, inch deep” variety of faith that plagues the 21st century church in America?

  07/24/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Parents should receive vouchers

  The letter this week challenged a recent editorial opposing the current push in the Texas Legislature for educational vouchers.

  07/19/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Editorial: Could Jesus get elected dog-catcher here?

  If we’re going to be serious about following Jesus, that means doing everything we can—everything—to care for the weak, the poor, the vulnerable.

  07/19/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Guest editorial: The Cross and the Lynching Tree—a broken gospel

  The lynching tree keeps Christ’s cross from becoming “a symbol of abstract, sentimental piety.” But the lynching tree needs the cross, “without which it becomes simply an abomination,” with no sign of hope.

  07/19/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Voices: Honoring diversity, seeking unity

  Can the church in this hyper-partisan culture be a community of true diversity—not of socially mandated opinions, not of watered-down beliefs without substance, but an honest-to-God, one-of-a-kind community of unified diversity?

  07/19/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Kyle Streun: ‘The church is the hope of the world’

  This week’s profile of Texas Baptist ministers features Kyle Streun, pastor of First Baptist Church in Denver City, where he has served for about a year.

  07/19/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Second Opinion: Trump threatens to change the course of American Christianity

  The Trump presidency is only six months old, but it is already beginning to alter long-standing spiritual alignments. It seems as though Christians are not changing Trump, but rather that Trump could be changing Christianity. (Washington Post)

  07/19/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Voices: What does 6.5% have to do with your church?

  As churches review candidates for pastor and other staff positions, a leader among Baptist women in ministry encourages search committees to consider women and men the same—and differently.

  07/19/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Zambia: God uses willing servants in spite of weakness

  Student Missions blog: God truly is strong when we are weak. …  I felt discouraged. But God’s word says, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 

  07/17/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  President Trump, powerful words, needed discipleship

  This week’s letters focused on President Donald Trump and on articles by columnists Jake Raabe and Garrett Vickrey

  07/12/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Editorial: Resist Abbott/ Patrick reverse-Robin Hood approach to education

  Texas Baptists and other people of faith must remain vigilant to combat a proposal to create a state education voucher system during the special session of the Legislature.

  07/12/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Voices: Will we become cyborg Christians?

  Are we really moving toward a time when the future of business and daily life consists of the fusion between people and machines?

  07/12/2017 - By Marv Knox