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By Ken Camp, Baptist Standard
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Monday, November 21, 2011 |
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Too often, churches have trailed society at large in terms of embracing racial and ethnic diversity, a multiethnic panel told a regional New Baptist Covenant II gathering in San Antonio.
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By Ken Camp, Baptist Standard
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Saturday, November 19, 2011 |
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Ministers contribute to the decline of churches when they appeal to people’s lowest values of selfish consumerism rather than challenging them to follow Jesus, Rick McClatchy told a regional New Baptist Covenant II assembly.
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By Marv Knox, Baptist Standard
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Saturday, November 19, 2011 |
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The world’s brokenness calls out for Christians who will speak courageously on behalf of justice and fairness, a trio of pastors told participants at the New Baptist Covenant II satellite sessions in Oklahoma City.
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By Marv Knox, Baptist Standard
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Saturday, November 19, 2011 |
Payday lending traps many of America’s working poor in a vortex of debt, participants at the New Baptist Covenant II satellite meeting in Oklahoma City learned.
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By Robert Dilday, Managing Editor
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Saturday, November 19, 2011 |
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Initiatives such at the New Baptist Covenant II help lower racial barriers, but there is “still a lot of work to do,” said a south Philadelphia pastor who helped organize a satellite viewing of the three-day event. Racism is "one of the biggest hindrances," to a Christian witness, said Steve Avinger, pastor of Greater Saint Matthew Baptist Church.
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By Jim White, Editor
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Friday, November 18, 2011 |
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Though turnout was low for the satellite viewing of the New Baptist Covenant II in the nation’s capital, organizers of the event prepared carefully with a huge screen dominating the platform area of Israel Baptist Church in the District of Columbia’s northeast sector.
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By Bob Allen
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Friday, November 18, 2011 |
Former President Jimmy Carter told a veteran journalist that he’s seen progress in areas that prompted him to convene a New Baptist Covenant gathering in 2008 and New Baptist Covenant II gatherings scattered across nine locations linked by satellite TV Nov. 17-19.
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By Bob Allen
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Friday, November 18, 2011 |
Baptists must view prison ministry as more than prayer meetings and Bible studies if they are to follow Jesus’ Luke 4 mandate to “proclaim liberty to the captives,” former Arkansas Appeals Court Justice and Baptist pastor Wendell Griffen said Nov. 18.
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