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  Editorial: Learn to see people, not just news about them

  We tell ourselves and those visiting our churches that we welcome people in our buildings. Too often, our words and actions say otherwise.

  01/25/2023 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Letters: Women in ministry and Johnny Hunt’s return

  Baptist Standard readers respond to an editorial about women in ministry and Johnny Hunt’s return to preaching.

  01/25/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Voices: Helpful ministry to special-needs families

  Churches want to be sensitive to special needs but don’t always know how. Ashley Myers offers some suggestions from her own experience.

  01/24/2023 - By Ashley Myers

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  Editorial: Women in ministry still a question for BGCT

  As some in the SBC seek to exclude women pastors—of any kind—some Texas Baptists wonder anew where the BGCT stands on women in ministry.

  01/19/2023 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Voices: Acknowledge, don’t minimize trauma

  “Rather than desensitizing ourselves to the harms of this world, do we engage in practices that re-sensitize us to the pain others feel?”

  01/18/2023 - By Beth Ann McCormick

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  Commentary: A view on racism from South Africa

  In response to Editor Eric Black’s editorial on defining racism, Reg Munro offers a view on the question from his experience with apartheid.

  01/17/2023 - By Reg Munro

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  Letters: Editorial: We need a clear definition of racism

  Baptist Standard readers respond to Editor Eric Black’s editorial on working toward a clear definition of racism.

  01/17/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Voices: Bridging generational views of grace

  Young adult ministry requires taking account of context. Grace offers a focal point for leaders to listen to where young adults are.

  01/17/2023 - By Antwuan Malone

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  Editorial: We need a clear definition of racism

  If we oppose racism in all its forms, we should be able to define all its forms. Otherwise, we are doing little more than virtue signaling.

  01/11/2023 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Voices: Let’s cancel conference culture

  There are countless conference options, but conference culture has become a problem and needs to be challenged.

  01/11/2023 - By Joshua Sharp

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  Voices: Genesis: God’s purpose vs. the modern world

  Ruth Cook plans to read through the Bible this year with a group of friends. She’s finding more in Genesis than she expected.

  01/10/2023 - By Ruth Cook

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  Editorial: What a speaker and a safety reveal about us

  What I watched Monday night and Tuesday afternoon is a snapshot, not just of where we are as a culture, but who we are as a people.

  01/04/2023 - By Eric Black / Editor