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World's Baptists responding to Pakistani flood

World's Baptists responding to Pakistani flood

Baptists are providing relief in Pakistan, where millions are displaced and living whereever they can find dry land. (BGR photo)

Are the devout less stressed?

Are the devout less stressed?

Religion may provide a “buffer” allowing the devout to feel less anxiety when they make mistakes, compared with nonbelievers, according to new research.

Duvall on film and faith

Duvall on film and faith

Actor Robert Duvall's characters often are touched by faith, from washed-up country singer Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies to a hermit in his summer release, Get Low.

 
Donations not keeping pace with Pakistan relief needs, say Baptists
By Robert Marus   
Thursday, September 02, 2010
ATLANTA (ABP) -- Baptist organizations in the United States and elsewhere are continuing their efforts to provide relief after catastrophic flooding in Pakistan -- but funds are being stretched to the limit by the disaster’s massive scale.
 
Two prominent Baptist thinkers criticize Beck’s 'Restoring Honor' rally
By Robert Marus   
Thursday, September 02, 2010
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- When conservative media personality Glenn Beck called for “revival” on the National Mall Aug. 28, he was making a hash of both patriotism and faith, according to a pair of Baptist leaders. 
 
Kentucky pastor recommended as new NAMB president
By Robert Marus   
Thursday, September 02, 2010
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (ABP) -- The pastor of one of the Southern Baptist Convention’s most visible leaders will be recommended as the new head of the denomination’s North American Mission Board.
 
Hispanic pastor facing deportation is released on bond
By ABP staff   
Thursday, September 02, 2010
ATLANTA (ABP) -- A Hispanic North Carolina pastor is out on bond after the first stage of deportation proceedings against him and is planning his case to avoid getting snared by a 15-year-old crime for which he has already served time.
 
Former Virginia chaplain leads fight to save woman on death row
By Jim White, Editor   
Monday, August 30, 2010

JARRATT, Va. -- Unless the U.S. Supreme Court or Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell step in, Teresa Lewis will die on Sept. 23, in the death chamber at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. Lynn Litchfield wants to stop it.

 
CBFVA sponsors Service in September projects
By Herald Staff   
Monday, August 30, 2010

RICHMOND, Va. -- Nine locations across Virginia will host this year’s Service in September mission projects, coordinated in the state by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia.

 
Virginia church disbands but result is $1 million for ministry
By Robert Dilday, Managing Editor   
Monday, August 30, 2010

ARLINGTON, Va. -- A Virginia Baptist congregation has closed its doors after 80 years, but the result will be about $1 million available over time to Christian ministries in Washington’s Northern Virginia suburbs. Trinity Baptist Church in Arlington held its last service Aug. 29, bringing to an end a congregation established in 1930.

 
Baptist men’s gathering to focus on prayer, worship, discussion
By Herald Staff   
Monday, August 30, 2010

RICHMOND, Va. -- Baptist men from across the state will meet for prayer, worship and round table discussions at the one-day Virginia Baptist Men’s Gathering, set for Saturday, Sept. 25.

 
Hispanic pastor facing deportation for old arrest
By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press   
Monday, August 30, 2010
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) -- Leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina solicited urgent prayer Aug. 27 for a Hispanic pastor facing possible deportation for a 15-year-old crime he committed before accepting Christ.
 
EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida takes aim at e-mail gossip
By Jim White, Editor   
Monday, August 30, 2010
Aunt Ida enters the information age with an e-mail account but takes issue with what some people are sending her. She brings her typical homespun wisdom to online gossip. In the old days, gossips could only spread their juicy morsels to a few folks at a time, she says.
 
VITAL SIGNS: Assessing conflict in churches
By Bill WIlson   
Monday, August 30, 2010

So what do we make of the rising tide of conflict in local congregations? First of all, is there actually an increase in conflict? Anecdotally, the number of calls and conversations we are having around conflict seem to indicate that local church conflict is becoming more frequent and widespread.

 
HERITAGE: Light in the forest
By Fred Anderson   
Monday, August 30, 2010
Virginia Baptists early established relationships with Indians. John Leland, arguably the most prominent of the 18th-century Virginia Baptist itinerant preachers, wrote that in the 1780s he preached in the “royal pavilion” of an Indian chief, John Tohan. A Baptist presence has continued to the present.
 
ASK THE ARCHITECT: Surveys are helpful, though optional, homework
By Jim DePasquale   
Monday, August 30, 2010
At this stage of your church’s building program you are still gathering  general information about your mission, who you are as a church, future programs and ministry needs, etc. Yet there is one more information gathering exercise that the church can conduct. It entails performing surveys.
 
The latest New Voice package

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As students return to classes at historically Baptist colleges and universities this fall, the institution of Baptist higher education is in a state of flux from challenges that include finances, changing demographics and fragmentation of Baptist denominations. [Read More] ...

Read these stories developed in collaboration with our New Voice Media Group partners:
• Christian higher education not spared from recession's impact
• Baptist higher education traces a long tradition

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Coverage of the Baptist World Congress

bwa.jpg Baptists from around the globe gathered in Honolulu July 28-Aug. 1 for the Baptist World Alliance's once-every-five-year World Congress and committed themselves to sharing Christ and practicing social justice. Read our complete coverage here.

• ANALYSIS: BWA leaders see future of increasing diversity, emaphasis on justice and development
• Virginia's John Upton elected BWA president for next 5 years
• Vietnamese Baptists join BWA following Council vote
• South Africa to host continent's first Baptist World Congress in 2015
• U.S. denies visas to about 1,000 hoping to attend Congress
• BWAid leader reflects on 20 years of ministry in relief and development
• World Baptists honor Denton Lotz for human rights advocacy
• Women combat poverty, abuse by walking in the Spirit
• North American Baptists examine series of 'shifts'

• Changes occur when church is empowered, says Lance Watson
• Listen to the Spirit, receive the Spirit's anointing, Coffey says
• If Jesus needed the Spirit, then so do Christians today, say U.S. pastor
• Faithful preachers proclaim God's message without fear, Jamaican Baptist insists
• Liberation should mark Christianity's mission and ministry, says educator
• Holy Spirit transforms individuals,community, creation, African says
• Christians must liberate and be liberated, seminarian tells BWA
• Preach Good News, proclaim freedom, seminary president urges

• Religious persecution crosses faith lines, say advocates for freedom
• Science vs. religion? It's an unnecessary battle, say panelists
• Mission demands local strategies, global vision, panelists assert
• Christianity's relation to culture is a matter of spiritual discernment, say Baptists
• Focus group explores ethics of tourism
• Christians commanded to love Muslim neighbors, panel insists

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