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  Texas Baptists’ Disaster Recovery mobilizes 450 volunteers

  Texas Baptists’ Disaster Recovery ministry mobilized 450 volunteers in two weekends to Rowlett and Garland after tornadoes ripped through North Texas Dec. 26.

  01/13/2016 - By Ken Camp

• McAfee appoints new dean

  Effective July 1, one theology school’s loss is another’s gain. From BNG

  01/07/2016 - By Ken Camp

• Accrediting agency head stepping down

  Daniel O. Aleshire has announced his decision to retire as executive director of the Association of Theological Schools no later than June 30, 2017. From BNG

  01/07/2016 - By Ken Camp

• Obituaries: Nell Bowles & James Keith

  Obituaries for Marinelle “Nell” Bowles and James M. Keith

  01/07/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Around the State: Church safety seminar offered in Soda Lake

  Soda Lake Baptist Association offers church safety seminar; Hardin-Simmons University confers honorary doctorates on New Braunfels couple.

  01/07/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Lilly grants benefit Wayland and Truett programs for high school youth

  Wayland Baptist University and Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary each received $600,000 grants from the Lilly Endowment’s high school youth theology institutes.

  01/07/2016 - By John Rutledge

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  Hong Kong church enables BWA to launch evangelism award

  The Baptist World Alliance launched a major evangelism award, made possible by Kowloon International Baptist Church in Hong Kong.

  01/07/2016 - By John Rutledge

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  TBM volunteers continue to provide disaster relief in North Texas

  With chainsaws, blue tarps and skid-steer loaders, Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers continued to help North Texas residents affected by killer tornadoes that swept through the region the day after Christmas.

  01/07/2016 - By Ken Camp

• Religious groups challenge contraceptive mandate in Supreme Court brief

  Several religious nonprofits, including GuideStone Financial Resources, claim Obamacare violates their religious liberty. From BNG

  01/06/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Banning guns at church requires proper notice

  Some Texas Baptist congregations rang in the new year by posting signs prohibiting openly carried handguns inside their church buildings—or updating signs already banning concealed handguns.

  01/05/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Obituaries: Raynal Barber, Wanda Fowler

  Raynal Bell Barber, 80, longtime English professor at Dallas Baptist University, died Nov. 23 in Dallas. Wanda Orrick Fowler, 84, wife of the former editor of the Baptist New Mexican, died Dec. 18 in San Antonio.

  01/04/2016 - By John Rutledge

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  Americans prize religion freedom for Christians, less for Muslims

  Eight in 10 Americans say it’s very or extremely important for people like themselves to be allowed to practice their religion freely. But support for religious freedom plummeted when people were asked about other traditions,  a new survey revealed. From RNS

  12/31/2015 - By Ken Camp