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  Churchgoers prefer congregation that shares their politics

  As churchgoers head to the polls for midterm elections, most expect the rest of their congregation to vote the same way they do.

  11/01/2022 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

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  TBM brings clean water to Amazon village in Peru

  A team of seven Texas Baptist Men volunteers helped drill a water well and start a church building for an Amazon River island village in Peru.

  11/01/2022 - By Ferrell Foster / Texas Baptist Men

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  BGCT will elect officers, consider $35.46 million budget

  Messengers to the 2022 Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting in Waco will elect officers and consider a $35.46 million budget for next year.

  11/01/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Religious freedom panel criticizes China-Vatican deal

  Members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom criticized a recently renewed Vatican deal with China, saying it emboldens the Chinese government to crack down on Christian communities.

  11/01/2022 - By Claire Giangravé /  Religion News Service

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  Steven Curtis Chapman bares soul in video testimony

  Steven Curtis Chapman describes some of his faith journey in the latest “I Am Second” short film, “Mountains and Valleys.”

  10/31/2022 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Variant strains emerge within Christian nationalism

  Christian nationalist ideology has served as a glue holding together a wide range of right-wing coalitions, but anti-Catholic rhetoric could cause future fissures in the movement.

  10/31/2022 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Nearly half think United States should be a Christian nation

  Forty-five percent of Americans believe the United States should be a “Christian nation,” according to a new Pew Research Center survey examining Christian nationalism.

  10/28/2022 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Faith groups say US gone astray, disagree about how

  Three-quarters of Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction, and the majority of many religious groups agree. But they don’t agree on what has gone wrong.

  10/28/2022 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  British historian offers observations about Texas Baptists

  Serving as a visiting professor at Baylor University multiple times the past two decades has allowed David Bebbington to indulge his “hobby”—visiting churches and taking careful notes on what he observes

  10/28/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  BGCT honors some of Texas’ BEST educators

  Texas Baptists recognized nine public school educators as BEST—Baptist Educators Serving Texas.

  10/28/2022 - By Texas Baptists Communications

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  Eyewitness urges Christians to remember Emmett Till

  Emmett Till’s murder and his mother’s decision to allow an open casket at his funeral shone a light on racial violence in the United States and became a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

  10/28/2022 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service

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  Saddleback pastor says he will encourage women to preach

  Lead Pastor Andy Wood anticipates the number of women clergy will grow at Saddleback Church, something likely to heighten the discussion over the congregation’s relationship to the Southern Baptist Convention.

  10/28/2022 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press