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  Commentary: Brightening Mr. Putts’ Christmas

  James Putt had plenty of friends, but he was still alone at Christmas. The Carter family turned one of his Christmases around.

  12/19/2022 - By Steve Carter

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  Editorial: Positive ways churches can show respect for marriage

  The Respect for Marriage Act defines what marriages are legal, not how marriage is respected. Churches can define that respect in positive ways.

  12/15/2022 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Voices: Did Santa slap a heretic?

  Jim Lemons revisits the theological debate that gave rise to the legend that Saint Nicholas slapped Arius, who later was branded a heretic.

  12/14/2022 - By Jim Lemons

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  Commentary: Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ has come to feel like home

  Karen Swallow Prior draws attention to what makes T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” a complex, Christocentric and celebrated poem.

  12/13/2022 - By Karen Swallow Prior / Religion News Service

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  Letter: Editorial: Who has authority to restore a pastor?

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to Editor Eric Black’s editorial on the question of who can restore a pastor and what pastor can be restored.

  12/13/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Voices: Remembering a friend with laughter

  Don Newbury has made many friends throughout his life and career. With a funny anecdote, he remembers one who succumbed to COVID.

  12/12/2022 - By Don Newbury

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  Editorial: Who has authority to restore a pastor?

  Not every fallen minister should be restored to ministry. Who has the authority to decide who is restored and who isn’t?

  12/07/2022 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Voices: The example of the adulterous woman

  Pastor Panha Mey offers a different perspective on the story of the religious leaders using a woman caught in adultery to trap Jesus.

  12/07/2022 - By Pastor Panha Mey

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  Letter: Editorial: Accountability requires more than four pastors

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to Editor Eric Black’s editorial about Johnny Hunt’s supposed restoration to ministry.

  12/06/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Commentary: Why Americans are leaving their churches

  A British sociologist studying American religious trends suggests three reasons Americans are leaving their churches in higher numbers now.

  12/02/2022 - By Jana Riess / Religion News Service

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  Editorial: Accountability requires more than four pastors

  Four pastors give their stamp of approval on Johnny Hunt’s return to ministry, but accountability requires more than that.

  11/30/2022 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Voices: The church is not built on Peter

  Lester Leonares, a Baptist church elder, takes issue with the belief that Jesus said Peter was the rock on which the church would be built.

  11/29/2022 - By Lester Leonares