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Faith & Culture
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Challenges to Baptist higher education that include finances, changing demographics and fragmentation of Baptist denominations are prompting insiders to reassess what it means to be a distinctively “Baptist” institution of higher learning.
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Faith & Culture
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By Ken Camp, Baptist Standard
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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God makes rain fall on the just and the unjust, Jesus said. Similarly, recession makes market prices fall, affecting endowments of Christian higher education and secular universities alike. United States and Canadian schools suffered an average 23 percent drop in the market value of their endowments from the 2008 to 2009 fiscal years, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund Institute. While some schools report recent improvement, recovery has been slow -- and Christian institutions haven't been immune.
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Faith & Culture
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Baptist higher education stands on the shoulders of a long tradition in Christianity linking knowledge to faith. The Apostle Paul, many of the early church fathers and important theologians like Augustine were respected for knowledge, both in religious and secular realms. And most early colleges founded in America began as denominational schools intended to meet the need for an educated clergy and at the same time provide an educated lay leadership for church and denomination.
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Faith & Culture
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By Leanne Larmondin, Religion News Service
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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TORONTO -- Religion may provide a “buffer” allowing the devout to feel less anxiety when they make mistakes, compared with nonbelievers, according to new scientific research.
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Faith & Culture
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By Maggie Hyde, Religion News Service
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (RNS) -- Religious leaders and civil rights advocates have signed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, pressing the Department of Justice to implement national standards to help prevent an estimated 60,000 cases of prison rape each year.
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Faith & Culture
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By Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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THE PLAINS, Va. -- 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. And then there was Euliss “Sonny” Dewey, a Texas preacher on the run from the law and his own foibles in the The Apostle, which Duvall wrote and directed. “You don’t have to agree with everything that these people believe in, but you want to try to portray them as accurately as possible ... without dictating or putting judgments on it,” Duvall said.
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Faith & Culture
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By Michael Tomberlin, Religion News Service
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (RNS) -- Companies in the Bible Belt are less likely to be sued for accounting fraud or to practice aggressive financial reporting, a study indicates.
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Faith & Culture
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By Bob Allen
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) -- A Southern Baptist seminary president says evolution and Christianity are not compatible. "The theory of evolution is incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ even as it is in direct conflict with any faithful reading of the Scriptures," said. Albert Mohler.
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