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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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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Friday, November 18, 2011 |
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Baptists laid aside differences of race, geography and tradition to affirm common values of care for the poor and marginalized in Atlanta and satellite locations across the United States Nov. 17. The New Baptist Covenant II continues through Saturday.
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Monday, November 14, 2011 |
As one university affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention captured headlines with a new policy that effectively bans gay employees, another historically Georgia Baptist school announced adoption of a domestic-partner benefit policy providing access to healthcare and other benefits to employees and partners regardless of sexual orientation.
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Monday, November 14, 2011 |
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Shorter University has adopted a new faith statement that affirms biblical inerrancy and is requiring faculty and staff to sign a pledge rejecting homosexuality.
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Friday, November 11, 2011 |
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The Charlotte, N.C.-based Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America has announced plans to publish an expanded and updated edition of a resource originally published in 2000 for congregations grappling with the question of sexual orientation.
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By Bob Allen
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Thursday, November 10, 2011 |
CHICAGO (ABP) -- Roy Medley, general secretary of American Baptist Churches USA, was elected president-elect of the National Council of Churches Nov. 9 at a meeting of the NCC governing board in Chicago. Medley will lead the ecumenical group starting Jan. 1, 2014.
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