EDITORIAL: Siguiendo y Obedeciendo a Nuestro Dios
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NOTA DEL EDITOR: La columna First-Person (De primera mano) es parte de la edición de hoy de BP en español. Para ver historias adicionales, vaya ahttp://www.bpnews.net/espanolGRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) -- El ser salvos...
FIRST-PERSON: Why I write so much about the culture
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ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) -- Through the years I have on occasion been asked why I choose to address issues of a social and political nature in my writing. In my new role as the Louisiana Baptist Convention's liaison to the...
FIRST-PERSON: The good & (all the) bad of prenatal testing
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DALLAS (BP) -- As Rick Santorum left the presidential race, he also left the nation better educated on the sanctity of human life. His daughter Bella's recent hospitalization, her second during heavy campaigning months...
CULTURE DIGEST: Tony Blair establishes 'Faith Foundation' to promote respect for religions
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Calling faith "a powerful force for good in the modern world," former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has established the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to promote respect and understanding about...
Seminary gatherings slated for June 20
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- For New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, it will be a campus picnic. For the other five seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention, it will be a convention center setting.In each case, alumni...
Evangelists to proclaim Gospel's power
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Messengers arriving in advance of the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in New Orleans are invited to worship at a June 17 service hosted by the Conference of Southern Baptist...
Associational leaders 'Igniting Passion'
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Directors of Missions will emphasize passion in ministry at its June 17-18 meeting in New Orleans.The conference is open to all associational leaders....
Ministers' wives to view inward beauty
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Ministers' wives will view inward beauty at their annual luncheon in New Orleans as they study "The Hidden Person of the Heart," drawn from 1 Peter 3:3-4.In the passage, Peter tells wives that their...
Pam Tebow to address pastors' wives session
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The annual Pastors' Wives Conference will feature testimonies from Pam Tebow and Jeannie Elliff and a roundtable discussion about parenting children of ministers.The conference is scheduled from...
Korean Council to meet in Maryland
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LEWISVILLE, Texas (BP) -- The Council of Korean Baptist Churches in America has announced that its 31st annual meeting will be June 18-20 in suburban Baltimore.The guest speaker will be a South Korean pastor, Sun Ro Kim...
Messianics to discuss congregation planting
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Messianic Fellowship will meet June 15-16 in New Orleans to focus on discipleship and congregation planting and to gain encouragement for the task of reaching Jews with the...
Native Americans name executive director
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The Fellowship of Native American Christians will install Gary Hawkins as FoNAC's first-ever executive director during its June 18 meeting in New Orleans as a step toward a greater national...
Filipinos to report on church planting
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship of North America will meet Tuesday, June 19, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans.The group, with about...
Chinese fellowship intent on planting churches
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Church planting again will be the focus of the Chinese Baptist Fellowship of the U.S. and Canada during its June 18 meeting in New Orleans.The fellowship has planted 15 churches in the past year...
Black network theme: 'The Father's Business'
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The Black Southern Baptist Denominational Servants Network will focus on "The Father's Business" and issue its annual awards June 17 in conjunction with the 2012 Southern Baptist Convention annual...
NAAF hopeful in historic SBC election
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Attendance at the National African American Fellowship's annual meeting will break records as the Southern Baptist Convention seems poised to elect its first black president, NAAF President James...
Penetrating lostness drives NAMB's plans at SBC
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The North American Mission Board is seeking to show Southern Baptists how to be involved in penetrating lostness across North America, as NAMB plans for the Southern Baptist Convention's annual...
WMU meeting schedule
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WMU Missions Celebration and Annual MeetingJune 17-18, 2012New Orleans Morial Convention Center900 Convention Center BoulevardLa Nouvelle Orleans BallroomNew Orleans, Louisiana 70130Registration opens at 2:00 P.M. on...
'Story lives on' at WMU sessions
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- With the theme "The Story Lives On," Woman's Missionary Union will hold its Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting June 17-18 in New Orleans.Missionary testimonies, music led by New Orleans Baptist...
SBC Pastors' Conference Schedule
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Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference ScheduleJune 17-18, 2012Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleanswww.sbcpc.netTheme: "Changing: Lives, Communities, the World"President, Grant Ethridge, senior pastor, Liberty...
Pastors' Conference to spotlight Father's Day
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Change is in the air for the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, June 17-18 in New Orleans, themed "Changing: Lives, Communities, the World.""I am changing. You are changing. The world around us is...
The Ala. Baptist marks anniversary of tornadoes
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- The Alabama Baptist, the state's weekly Baptist newspaper with an estimated 225,000 readers, distributed a 56-page commemorative issue of the anniversary of the April 2011 tornadoes to churches...
Ala church has seen 2 tragedies in past year
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CENTRE, Ala. (BP) -- The small congregation of Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Centre, Ala., has faced two life-changing obstacles in the past year. First its church building was largely destroyed by a tornado April 27,...
Alabama's tornadoes: A time to remember
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP) -- Some experiences in life you really want to forget because the pain is too much to bear. That is quite understandable. All of us could cite a chapter and verse about such episodes of failure and...
Death, destruction recounted at Ala. anniversary
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Alabama Baptists remember the death and destruction wrought by more than 60 tornadoes across the state a year ago today.BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- History marks those days. Dec. 7, 1941. Sept. 11, 2001....
SBC meeting smartphone app launches
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- For the first time, messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting this year can stay up to date with an SBC Annual Meeting smartphone app, which will include more than a dozen...
New 'descriptor' and historic election ahead for SBC meeting
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The recommendation of "Great Commission Baptists" as a descriptive name and the prospective election of the first ever African American president are on the horizon for the Southern Baptist...
FIRST-PERSON: Fighting for Eden
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FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- One of my dearest friends and I had just finished up a delightful afternoon of window-shopping. I pulled into her driveway, and as it usually happens with close friends, we ended up sitting in...
BIBLE STUDY: Sunday, April 29, 2012
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult Publishing team, LifeWay...
Glorieta available for $1 to N.M. Baptists
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (BP) -- The LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center is being offered for $1 to the Baptist Convention of New Mexico, according to both LifeWay and state convention leaders.Jerry Rhyne, LifeWay's chief...
ANALYSIS: Domestic violence act has problems
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WASHINGTON (BP) -- One of the age-old tricks of the legislating trade is to name legislation with a title that sounds either catchy or simply too good to oppose. Naturally, lawmakers invoke this tactic on both helpful...
SBTC pres.: Pray for Obama, 'take high road'
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IRVING, Texas (BP) -- Southern Baptists of Texas Convention President Terry Turner rallied executive board members April 24 to pray faithfully for President Barack Obama and members of Congress, seeking a change in the...
NC gay 'marriage' backers try to change subject
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RALEIGH, N.C. (BP) -- Less than two weeks before voters in North Carolina go to the polls to vote on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, the main group opposing it essentially has...
Syrian refugee relief hindered by low funds
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ATHENS (BP) -- Southern Baptists are reaching out to the growing numbers of Syrians fleeing violence in their country, but financial reserves are inadequate to meet the needs."Many of us have seen the ongoing human...
Refugees from Syria's mayhem find Christian friend across border
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NORTHERN JORDAN (BP) -- Muhammad*, two of his sisters and an elderly uncle sit on the floor of a rented house beside a trash-strewn gully in a town near Jordan's northern border with Syria.The uncle fingers his prayer...
Bible translator criticized over word substitution
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One of the largest Bible translators in the world is undergoing an independent review after critics claimed language in some of their translations intended for Muslim countries misses the essential Christian idea of...
FIRST-PERSON: Remembering Chuck Colson, the church member
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NAPLES, Fla. (BP) -- While multitudes mourn the death of Charles Colson, probably the best-known and most influential American Christian other than Billy Graham, I experience a profound sadness as his pastor of 20...
FROM THE COLLEGES: Union, N. Greenville, Louisiana College
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EDITOR'S NOTE: "From the Colleges" includes news releases of interest as written and edited from Southern Baptist-affiliated universities and colleges or state Baptist newsjournals.Today's From the Colleges...
Jazz drummer trains musical 'chameleons'
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Jazz musician Stockton Helbing drums like a chameleon, changing the shades of his style and rhythm for any musical setting."Every weekend, I'm playing contemporary Christian rock at my church," says...
WMU introduces new trademark & tagline
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- WMU has introduced an updated trademark and a new tagline as key elements for the missions organization's branding.WMU's trademark since 2006 has incorporated the letters WMU with a larger "M"...
Calvinism conf. with nat'l figures coming to Ky.
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CRESTWOOD, Ky. (BP) -- The Kentucky Baptist Convention will sponsor a conference on Calvinism in August featuring four well-known panelists from divergent viewpoints, and despite its regional sponsorship, the conference...
Bombings in Nigeria continue against Christians
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JOS, Nigeria (BP) -- Suspected Islamic extremists attacked a TV viewing center in Jos, Nigeria, April 24, in a Christian area of the city where a crowd had gathered to watch a soccer match.At about 10:15 p.m. at the...
Brief kidnapping prompts teen's attentiveness to hurting people
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GUATEMALA CITY (BP) -- Bethani Thomas opened the gate so her mom could pull their car into the guesthouse driveway. Suddenly, she realized that a gun was pointed at her head.Her mom, International Mission Board...
Religion news in brief
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Court upholds guilty verdict against popular Egyptian comedian for defaming Islam CAIRO (AP) _ An Egyptian court upheld a conviction against one of the Arab world's most famous comedians, sentencing him to jail for...
WORLDVIEW: Uncool? Deal with it
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Visit "WorldView Conversation," the blog related to this column, at http://worldviewconversation.blogspot.com/.RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- I had to sympathize with rock singer Bono when he discovered he was...
FROM THE STATES: Wy., Ala., S.C. evangelism/missions news
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EDITOR'S NOTE: From the States, published each Tuesday by Baptist Press, relays news and feature stories from state Baptist papers and other publications on initiatives by Baptist churches, associations and state...
Tenn. convention exploring property options
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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (BP) -- Members of the Tennessee Baptist Convention's executive board have approved the exploration of "options for placing the Baptist Center property in Brentwood on the market and recruiting...
Jim Wells to join Mo. convention staff
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP) -- Jim Wells, registration secretary for the Southern Baptist Convention, is joining the Missouri Baptist Convention executive board staff as Cooperative Program state missionary for strategic...
Q&A: Actor John Schneider on role in 'October Baby' & a second new pro-life film, 'Doonby'
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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Actor John Schneider says he just wants to make a difference.Schneider plays the role of Hannah's father in the recent pro-life hit "October Baby," and drifter Sam Doonby in the new movie "Doonby," a...
9 keys to reaching college students
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DURHAM, N.C. (BP) -- There are three well-established facts regarding Christianity and college students that ought to capture the attention of any Gospel-loving pastor: 1) college is a time of unprecedented openness to...