• Opinion: America’s moral center says ‘no’ to torture

  (ABP) – An unprecedented bipartisan coalition of religious, political, and military leaders recently released a document expressing our shared rejection of torture and prisoner mistreatment by — or in the name of — the United States.

  06/27/2008 - By Administrator

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  OPINION: Lawley’s Chapel and the communion of saints

  A rural cemetary teaches us that eternity transcends our parochial divisions and enables us to look upon one another — no matter which “side” the person is on — as also someone worthy of the blood of Christ and the love of God.

  06/24/2008 - By admin

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  EDITORIAL: Church discipline deserves emphasis

  If we love people whose names fill our church rolls but who never darken our church doors and who live like hell, we will draw up the courage to “lovingly correct” them.

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  Texas Baptist Forum

  The search committee that introduced the Baptist General Convention of Texas to our new executive director, Randel Everett, did an outstanding job.

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  DOWN HOME: Through the years, God still weaves

  Here’s something I hadn’t thought all that much about until I listened carefully to Grammar: Living to be very old demands patience and faith.

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  IN FOCUS: One thing we do best: Sunday school

  As we search for exciting and innovative ways to reach and disciple our communities for Christ, let’s not be too quick to overlook one of the things we have done best–Sunday School.

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  RIGHT or WRONG? Living together

  "My widowed mother is retired and survives on Social Security. After many years of living alone, she met a wonderful man she loves dearly. They want to marry, but because of potential loss of Social Security income, they are thinking of living together instead. Is this OK?"

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  2nd Opinion: Celebrate religious liberty July 4

  As we observe the Fourth of July, it also is appropriate to express gratitude for our freedom, especially our religious liberty, which the Baptist Joint Committee works every day to defend and extend for all Americans.

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  Quotes in the News

  "You’ve got to ask, ‘Where does God want me to invest my life?’ We don’t welcome spectators.” — Dan Yeary

  06/20/2008 - By admin

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  RIGHT or WRONG? Separation of church & state

  Don’t Baptists have a moral obligation to understand the place of religious liberty?

  06/06/2008 - By admin

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  Quotes in the News

  "Forty years ago, conventional sociological wisdom said that society would secularize as it modernized. Such predictions were dead wrong." — Michael Lindsay.

  06/06/2008 - By admin

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  Texas Baptist Forum

  Would a journalist refer to a person who uses bifocals as “eyeglasses-bound”?

  06/06/2008 - By admin