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  SBC Executive Committee eliminates staff positions

  The SBC Executive Committee eliminated five staff positions and two contractor positions Sept. 13, citing “financial realities.”

  09/14/2023 - By Brandon Porter / Baptist Press

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  SBC president names members of cooperation group

  A North Texas associational missionary and the pastor of a church dually aligned with the BGCT and the SBTC are among the members of a newly named group exploring what it means for a church to be in “friendly cooperation” with the Southern Baptist Convention.

  09/14/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Around the World: UN experts concerned about India’s response in Manipur

  Nineteen United Nations human rights experts recently raised concerns about the “apparent slow and inadequate response” by India’s government to violence in the northeastern state of Manipur, where more than 250 houses of worship have been destroyed or damaged.

  09/14/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Christian lawmakers push battle over church and state

  A collection of state legislators and local government officials gathered recently with one unifying purpose—to change the social fabric of the country and return America to what it says are its Judeo-Christian origins.

  09/13/2023 - By Harry Larson and Francesca D’Annunzio / Religion News Service

• On the Move: Reynolds

  Pastoral change noted for Pearsall church.

  09/13/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Around the State: Lifeway listens to Texas worship leaders

  Worship leaders from Texas Baptist churches and several others participated in a listening session with three executives from Lifeway regarding the future of the lifewayworship.com website.

  09/13/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Pushback to the spread of megachurch praise music

  Participants at a worship conference seek a “deeper and richer” theology than what they say they have been getting in praise and worship music.

  09/13/2023 - By Grace Beckner /  Religion News Service

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  Dockery discusses seminary’s financial, leadership issues

  President David Dockery believes he can see the light at the end of the tunnel for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

  09/13/2023 - By Brandon Porter / Baptist Press

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  Send Relief ministers in Morocco after deadly earthquake

  The death toll from the major Sept. 8 earthquake in Morocco has approached 3,000. Send Relief leaders and partners are on the ground, meeting needs and assessing a long-term response.

  09/13/2023 - By Brandon Elrod

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  Wellman says cooperation group will focus on big picture

  A group tasked with defining the meaning of “friendly cooperation” in the Southern Baptist Convention will take a long-range approach to their work, said its chairman.

  09/13/2023 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  Religious freedom ‘sharply deteriorated’ in Iran, report says

  Religious freedom and human rights conditions in Iran—which already were bleak—have “sharply deteriorated,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported in a Sept. 11 update.

  09/12/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Meet the pastor behind that ‘quitting the church’ essay

  Alex Lang’s essay, entitled “Why I Left the Church,” went viral—and prompted a national conversation among clergy about the pressures of the profession and how they talk about those pressures.

  09/12/2023 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service