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Southern Baptists are already headed to the Gulf Coast region as remnants of Hurricane Isaac continually disrupt the lives of an increasing number of residents. By the weekend, a total of 36–40 Baptist relief units will have been deployed to Louisiana and Mississippi, said Bruce Poss, a disaster recovery coordinator at North American Mission Board…
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More than half of the pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention do not intend to use the name "Great Commission Baptists" in communication about their church, although 40 percent say they have not discussed the issue or decided, according to a survey by LifeWay Research. The survey also reveals more than 70 percent of pastors…
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A new generation of evangelical elites is imploring evangelicals to step back from the culture wars. Mostly they want to escape polarizing strong stances on same-sex marriage and abortion, and perhaps also contentious church-state issues, like the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. Purportedly the evangelical church is failing to reach young, upwardly mobile professionals because evangelicals, who…
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A group of current and former Southern Baptist leaders has signed a statement affirming what they call the "traditional Southern Baptist" understanding of the doctrine of salvation, with the goal of drawing a distinction with the beliefs of "New Calvinism." The statement was posted May 31 at SBCToday.com and includes a preamble and 10 articles,…
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Richard Land stood on the steps of the state Capitol in Nashville in late March, surrounded by more than a dozen young Catholic nuns dressed in the long white habits of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia. He’d just given a speech denouncing the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate for employers — accusing the president of…
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The likely Republican primary voters in the adult Bible study class at First Baptist Church have seen candidates' ads and devoured news coverage, but they listen most to a higher authority: God. They worked through a lesson Sunday about the sanctity of human life, made in His image, discussing Genesis 1:27, snippets of Deuteronomy, and…
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