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  Dallas: Just because it’s good doesn’t mean it’s right

  Student Missions Blog: This is semester has been all about learning what it means to be a leader of a Baptist Student Ministry, particularly a BSM at a junior college, specifically Mountain View College in Dallas.

  11/24/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  HPU: Find the joy in the chaos

  Student Missions Blog: This is the time of the semester that gets really hard for our students. It is a time of final projects and the impending doom of upcoming exams.

  11/24/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Kathy Hilllman: Chosen, loved, adopted—forever!

  This Thanksgiving, our family will sit down with four chairs permanently added to the table. Our daughter Holly and her husband, Kevin, adopted Gilbert Marshall, Gabriel Michael, Talia Kate and Geoffrey Mitchell on National Adoption Day.

  11/24/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  In Touch: Journeys leading to the annual meeting

  I attended groundbreaking ceremonies for the Baptist Student Ministries building at the University of North Texas in Denton.

  11/21/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Down Home: Lessons learned from an abrupt stop in the street

  A wrong turn and my split-second stupidity transformed an otherwise lovely evening.

  11/20/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Editorial: The perfect time to combat world hunger

  This year, thanks to a delightfully divine calendar collusion, Thanksgiving is followed by a fifth-Sunday collection for the Texas Baptist Hunger Offering.

  11/20/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  West Africa: No real sacrifice

  Student Missions Blog: Many people have misconceptions of what overseas missionary life is like. They think every day is an adventure and that because you live in a foreign country, you are always living on the edge.

  11/18/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Houston: Creating a safe place for questions and answers

  Student Missions Blog: My favorite memory from the past month was our Scripture debate.

  11/18/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Letters: Firing & following rules

  We will probably never know the real reason for the firing of Ken Hall,  and maybe that is best.

  11/17/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Jeff Johnson: Dancing ‘essentials’ apply to Texas Baptists

  I have a confession to make before I sign off as Baptist General Convention of Texas president. I am not the preacher from the movie Footloose.

  11/14/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  UTA: Free coffee and Bibles

  Student Missions Blog: Handing out flyers about our Bible study just didn’t seem effective, so we took a different approach. We offered free coffee and Bibles, and the outcome was encouraging.

  11/14/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Guest Editorial: The Pope and his ‘magic wand’; Is he half-right?

  Pope Francis endorsed the Big Bang theory, but he could have been more biblical in describing the idea of an infinitesimal “singularity” as the beginning point for God’s creation.

  11/14/2014 - By John Rutledge