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  Unlikely allies call fellow clergy to build bridges

  Pastors, rabbis and imams gathered at an “Unlikely” forum at a North Texas Baptist church to talk about how to live as good neighbors while holding to deeply held religious differences.

  03/08/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Hannah Coe: Love Builds Up

  Hannah Coe, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Waco, pointed out, “Creative license has its limitations.” Paul made the same point about freedom. (1 Corinthians 10:23-33)

  03/08/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Spiritual songs anchor faith, history of Black Americans

  Roy Cotton, a retired ethnomusicologist and former director of African American ministries for the Baptist General Convention of Texas, said God has used songs as a cultural vehicle of liberation for African Americans.

  03/07/2022 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  SBC President Litton reflects on race, sex abuse

  On the first day of March, Ed Litton announced he will not run for a second term as president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Then he got back to work.

  03/07/2022 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Cuban Baptist leader allowed to remain in El Salvador

  El Salvador will accept the asylum request of a Cuban Baptist leader who was denied entry into Nicaragua.

  03/04/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Odesa seminary redirects its focus as tensions increase

  Shelling near the campus of Odesa Theological Seminary in Ukraine forced administrators to redirect the school’s ministry—using contacts with alumni and students to connect resources to the churches and individuals in need.

  03/02/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Editorial: You can’t fix the world, but you can love

  “There are no right words right now. The time for right words has passed. Now is the time for right action.”

  03/02/2022 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Litton will not seek second term as SBC president

  Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton said he has a growing desire to develop a strategy to “bring about a gospel-driven unity and reconciliation”—and he needs to lead it as a “pastor rather than from the office of president.”

  03/01/2022 - By Jonathan Howe / Baptist Press

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  Voices: Pray for Ukraine, Russia and United States

  Pastor Leonid Regheta issues a challenging call to pray, regardless of politics, for Ukraine, Russia and the United States.

  03/01/2022 - By Leonid Regheta

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  Katy Reed-Hodges: Reorientation

  Katy Reed-Hodges, minister of congregational life with First Baptist Church in Arlington, explained Psalm 100 as a reorientation “back to the things that are most important to us in our lives.” (Psalm 100)

  03/01/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  ‘Miracle from God’ needed, Ukrainian Baptist leader says

  “We need a miracle from God,” Yaroslav Pyzh, president of the Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary in Lviv, Ukraine, said from his western Ukraine home on Feb. 26.

  02/28/2022 - By Ashley Allen / Southwestern Seminary

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  Blasts force students to evacuate from Odesa seminary

  Missile blasts forced the evacuation of students from Odesa Theological Seminary, but administrators and employees of the Baptist school hope the campus may be used to offer aid to people displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  02/25/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor