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  Baptist Standard wins four national awards from EPA

  The Baptist Standard won four awards from the Evangelical Press Association, including first place “Higher Goals” awards for an editorial and a news series.

  04/20/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Around the State: ETBU hosts listening event for church leaders

  Staff members and volunteers from 19 churches in the Harrison County area met at East Texas Baptist University for a listening dinner hosted by the ETBU School of Christian Studies and Humanities.

  04/20/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  DA seeks to stop ‘unethical’ execution of Baptist inmate

  A South Texas district attorney has withdrawn the order for the execution date of an inmate whose case led to the recent ruling allowing spiritual advisers to lay hands on and pray for a prisoner in the death chamber.

  04/19/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Executive Committee considers moving 2023 SBC meeting

  The Southern Baptist Executive Committee will hold a special called meeting April 28 to discuss relocating the 2023 SBC annual meeting from Charlotte, N.C., to New Orleans.

  04/19/2022 - By Brandon Porter / Baptist Press

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  Hemphill rejoins seminary to lead center bearing his name

  Ken Hemphill has been appointed distinguished fellow of the Hemphill Center for Church Revitalization and senior professor of church revitalization in the Roy J. Fish School of Evangelism and Missions at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

  04/19/2022 - By Southwestern Seminary Staff

• Obituary: Joe T. Lenamon

  Joe T. Lenamon, one of the founding fathers of the Texas Baptist Men missions organization, died April 2 in Fort Worth. He was 92.

  04/18/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Texas Supreme Court allows lawsuit against Pressler to proceed

  The Texas Supreme Court ruled a sexual abuse lawsuit against Paul Pressler—one of the architects of the self-described “conservative resurgence” in the Southern Baptist Convention—may proceed.

  04/18/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Baptists offer training in trauma care for Ukrainian refugees

  Years after Russia’s bombs stop exploding and loved ones are eulogized, displaced Ukrainian refugees still may need counseling and intervention to deal with the loss.

  04/18/2022 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Pastors report struggling with time management

  As pastors think about their greatest needs, many worry about their time management skills and how they can balance all the responsibilities they have at church and at home.

  04/18/2022 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

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  Around the State: UMHB presents annual Easter pageant

  The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor presented three performances of its 83rd annual Easter pageant on April 13. Baylor University announced a $3 million gift from Jim and Sharon Harrod of Horseshoe Bay to establish an endowed faculty chair in Christian thought within the Honors College.

  04/13/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• On the Move: Choi

  Pastoral change noted for a Wichita Falls church.

  04/13/2022 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  House approves bill to hold accountable Myanmar military

  Advocates for international religious freedom praised the U.S. House of Representatives for passing legislation to hold accountable the Myanmar military for human rights violations and to authorize humanitarian assistance to the Burmese people.

  04/13/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor