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  Voices: Parenting a young Black male

  Two Dallas-area dads provide a glimpse into their concerns for their sons and how they are building relationships between them and law enforcement.

  05/18/2021 - By Oza Jones Jr. / Texas Baptists

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  Dr. Roy Cotton: An equipper of Christians and churches

  Dr. Roy Cotton, who has served Texas Baptists for 21 years, shares his thoughts about church and ministry.

  05/17/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Voices: Justice looks like a Toni Morrison plot

  Dr. Michelle Henry, a professor of English, discusses what justice looks like through the lens of Toni Morrison’s novels.

  05/17/2021 - By Dr. Michelle Henry

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  Editorial: What will we do when health care gets personal?

  Editor Eric Black follows up on his editorial about who should pay for healthcare after breaking his wrist and ending up in the ER.

  05/13/2021 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Autumn Seacat: Up or Out

  Autumn Seacat, associate college minister at Highland Baptist Church in Waco and student at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, asks if Christians are building towers or blessing nations. (Genesis 11:1-9, 12:1-4a; Acts 2:14-21)

  05/11/2021 - By Staff

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  Karen O’Dell Bullock: Embrace your Christian family heritage

  Karen O’Dell Bullock, director of the Ph.D. program at B.H. Carroll Theological Institute, shares her thoughts on Christian higher education.

  05/11/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  CommonCall: Serve Lubbock

  Jerry Ramirez admittedly finds it hard to say “no”—even to the prospect of building a community development ministry during a pandemic.

  05/11/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Saddleback Church ordains three women, draws criticism

  Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the Southern Baptist Convention and home to influential pastor Rick Warren, ordained three women as staff pastors, a move critics say violates the denomination’s statement of faith.

  05/11/2021 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Voices: Pursuing mental health in 2021

  Michael Chancellor suggests six steps for pursuing mental health after more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  05/11/2021 - By Michael R. Chancellor

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  Voices: I never knew I was Black

  Levi Bedilu describes what he discovered coming to America and calls the church to overcome the division he found even in it.

  05/10/2021 - By Levi Bedilu

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  Voices: Time to kill the Equality Act

  Gregory Tomlin describes threats to Christian higher education and churches posed by the Equality Act and calls for the Act to be rejected.

  05/07/2021 - By Gregory Tomlin

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  Editorial: Who should pay for health care?

  Our health care is in a pickle, and we need to bring our best minds and efforts to the quandary, because it affects us all.

  05/05/2021 - By Eric Black / Editor