Churches urged to focus on family as faith-forming factor
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___HOUSTON--Churches could encourage faith development in families by helping families talk more about their shared experiences, according to a Baylor University researcher and social work educator.
___"Perhaps one of the simplest and most important places to begin in ministry with families is to ask them to teach us about faith--and to hear for themselves the strength faith gives them for living," said Diana Garland, Baylor University researcher.
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Fourth-generation Buckner keeps the family focused on compassion
___By Toby Druin
___Buckner News Service
___DALLAS--It should be no surprise that a call to the Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls office in Dallas will get you a Buckner.
___Michelle Buckner, great-great-granddaughter of founder R.C. Buckner, continues his heritage with the institution and has given the program a "Buckner" presence for the past several months as assistant to director Tiffany Taylor.
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Sider: Both liberals and conservatives wrong on poverty
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___WACO--Both liberal and conservative strategies for eliminating poverty in America have failed because they are only "half right," ethicist Ron Sider told Baylor University students during the annual Willson-Addis Lecture Nov. 13.
___The key to unlocking the prison of poverty is not simply economic structure, as liberals have contended, and it's not merely moral and spiritual renewal, as conservatives have maintained; it requires both, stressed Sider, president of Evangelicals for Social Action and professor at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in St. Davids, Pa.
___"People need Jesus, and they need a job," Sider stressed.
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New BGCT cooperative giving options outlined
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___The remittance form used by churches to submit financial contributions to the Baptist General Convention of Texas has been simplified and changed in accordance with convention directives of the last two years.
___Changes to the form were worked out by the BGCT Administrative Committee during a three-hour meeting in Dallas Nov. 20.
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