Texas Baptists help
when mama goes to jail
 
ANNE MOONEY stands outside the Hilltop Unit where she helps jailed mothers like the one at right love their children. She is coordinator for EQUIP, an acronym for Enhancing Quality and Understanding in Incarcerated Parents. The program seeks to promote the development and maintenance of healthy family relationships, reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect, and prepare incarcerated parents for successful reintegration into their families upon release from the Texas Department of Corrections.
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Standard delivering free website
with more lessons, services, content
___A free weekly website, enhanced capabilities to produce church newsletters and expanded offerings in weekly Sunday school lessons were approved by the Baptist Standard's board of directors last week.
___All the changes are foundational steps to reposition the Standard for meeting the needs of Texas Baptists in the 21st century, said Editor Marv Knox. Additional changes and new products will be introduced over the next few years as the Standard seeks to become more relevant to a younger generation while continuing to serve its traditional base of loyal older readers, he said.
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Fifth Texas giving plan approved
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___The Baptist General Convention of Texas has added a fifth option for giving to its Cooperative Program unified budget.
___The BGCT Executive Board solidly approved the new giving option at its spring meeting May 18 in Dallas.
___The new proposal would enable churches to channel about 73 percent of their cooperative-giving dollars to BGCT ministries. The remainder would be allocated to the Southern Baptist Convention's International and North American mission boards, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth and Annuity Board in Dallas, along with the Baptist World Alliance.
___The option would not allocate funds to the other traditional SBC recipients of the Cooperative Program--five SBC seminaries, the Executive Committee and the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
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The Hallelujah Diet:
miracle cure or just a veggie tale?
___By Yonat Shimron
___Raleigh News & Observer
___Across the South, evangelicals are juicing carrots and eating raw fruits and vegetables as God's way to prevent or treat heart attacks, cancer, diabetes and a host of other illnesses.
___They call it the Hallelujah Diet.
___ The premise is a verse from Genesis 1:29: "I give you all plants that bear seed everywhere on earth and every tree bearing fruit which yields seed; they shall be yours for food."
___George Malkmus, the Western North Carolina minister who created the Hallelujah Diet, says the Bible contains more than spiritual truths. "It has physical answers we've never been taught to look to," he said. "We've been turning to the world for answers about our physical problems, and it's killing us." But doctors are skeptical of its cancer-cure claims, and Malkmus' radical suspicion of pharmaceutical drugs and even vitamin supplements is drawing scrutiny.
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