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Movie sends message about Islam, but which message?

Movie sends message about Islam, but which message?

Hollywood filmmakers are releasing a drama--The Stoning of Soraya M.-- about a woman unjustly accused of adultery in Iran.

Youth volunteers share two-fold message: God and service

Youth volunteers share two-fold message: God and service

About 160 middle school and high school World Changers from nine churches across the nation served in low-income Dallas neighborhoods.

Ministry network hailed as emerging trend

Ministry network hailed as emerging trend

Participants at a CBF commissioning service prayed for six field personnel who are assuming new assignments and recognized representatives of a ministry network serving in China. 

Buckner suspends mission trips to Honduras

Buckner suspends mission trips to Honduras

Buckner International temporarily is suspending travel by mission groups to Honduras in the wake of a coup that removed President Manuel Zelaya from office.

 
'Helping Hand' ministry shows God’s love to West Dallas
Brother Bill’s Helping Hand  in West Dallas teams up with multiple agencies to provide resources to more than 900 families each year.
 
CBF moderator urges General Assembly to celebrate movement
Following a year of financial hardship, the moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship urged the group's General Assembly July 2 to celebrate the movement's success and potential for the future.
 
Christian leaders push president to reform immigration law
Christian leaders, including three members of President Obama’s faith advisory council, pushed the president to make good on his promise of comprehensive immigration reform.
 
CBF adjusts to budget shortfall
Eight months into the fiscal year, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's revenues were 20 percent below budget, the group's Coordinating Council learned July 1. But -- thanks to a plan in place since March to reduce spending to match the projected shortfall -- leaders said the organization is not facing a budget crisis.
 
ABCUSA delegates refuse to approve bylaw changes
While celebrating the denomination’s broad ethnic, regional and language diversity at their biennial meeting June 26-28, members of the American Baptist Churches USA  torpedoed a major restructuring.
 
Baptist school cancels mission trip for church dismissed from SBC
A Kentucky Baptist university has, at the last minute, withdrawn its invitation to host a youth mission team from Texas after the Southern Baptist Convention disfellowshipped their church for its toleration of homosexuals.
 
Hispanic Baptist Convention elects new president, appoints committee
Victor Rodriguez, pastor of South San Filadelfia Baptist Church in San Antonio, was elected president of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas in a close vote June 29.
 
BGCT seeks to put free GED program in each church
GEDThe Baptist General Convention of Texas has launched an effort that could put free General Equivalency Diploma programs in all its affiliated churches.
 
Commentary: Disappointing disfellowship of Broadway
Baptists have always located spiritual authority within the individual congregation. Baptist polity has always moved from the bottom up—never from the top down. Until now.
 
Separation of church and state from the underside
For many Baptists in the United States, the separation of church and state is no more than a historical concept or fodder for the culture wars. For Baptist minority groups in other countries, however, it can be a matter of survival.
 
  • Church/state neighbors
    Robert Frost’s 1914 poem “Mending Wall” repeats a line of wisdom passed down from generation to generation: “Good fences make good neighbors.” And that's good advice

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Showing God's love to refugees
globeI worked at World Relief in Fort Worth with a team of five other college students to serve refugees. Our main purpose was to show the love of Jesus to refugees by welcoming them to America and helping them with everyday tasks.
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Church/state neighbors
The May 25 Army Times pictured faces of 396 fallen soldiers, sailers, airmen and marines. In the previous twelve months, these US men and women died in the wars. Seeing the Faces of the Fallen make the cost of freedom especially real. The total numbe...   
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