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  Guest editorial: Maybe we should learn about race from children

  Maybe we should watch our children and learn from them how to get along and care for one another. They tend to do it better than grownups.

  06/26/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  2nd Opinion: Why tribalism in the church is stupid

  I’ll just come right out and say it: Tribalism in Christianity is stupid, and I’m willing to bet we are more alike than we think.

  06/26/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Thailand: Hard questions and faith tested

  Student Missions Blog: Serving in Thailand has greatly tested my faith in God.  Not that I doubted God’s existence, but more in the sense that I became unsure of God’s power.

  06/26/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Editorial: Same-sex marriage—church divided, but liberty protected

  Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. Outcries to the contrary, the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision did not herald the demise of religious liberty in America.

  06/26/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Southeast Asia: Jesus, the cross-cultural worker

  Student Missions Blog: I’ve been serving in Southeast Asia more than three weeks, and I’ve learned a lot of things. But one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that being a cross-cultural worker is hard.

  06/25/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Letters: Jesus would want disciples to carry guns

  Updated: As a retired pastor, I have no problem with law-abiding citizens carrying weapons, and in this time, it actually makes sense.

  06/24/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Houston: Loving them

  Student Missions Blog: Camp Bethany—a summer day camp ministry of Bethany Baptist Church in Houston— is in full swing.

  06/24/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Oklahoma: Looking into the eyes of a victim

  Student Missions Blog: If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to look into the eyes of a sex slave, I can tell you exactly how it feels.

  06/23/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Hawaii: The beauty of the gospel

  Student Missions Blog: After a semester of trying to get our schedules to match up, I finally was able to take John on an adventure to Rainbow Falls.

  06/22/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Richard Ray: Bivocational/Small Church Conference will help ministers, families

  I now turn your attention to the upcoming 29th annual Bivocational/Small Church Conference, hosted by your Bivocational/Small Church Association on the campus of Baptist Temple Church in San Antonio.

  06/22/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Letters: Jesus wouldn’t ‘pack heat’

  I don’t think Jesus would want his followers to “pack heat” in churches—or anywhere else.

  06/22/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Oregon: Such beauty and such pain

  Student Missions Blog: When we arrived in Portland, it didn’t take me long to realize we weren’t in Texas anymore. It also didn’t take long for me to fall in love with this place.

  06/19/2015 - By John Rutledge