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  Baylor provost resigns after less than eight months

  After less than eight months on the job, Edwin Trevathan resigned as Baylor University’s provost and executive vice president.

  01/19/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  MLK’s advice to pastors called key to revival

  Sixty years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott,  advice from Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1958 book, Stride Toward Freedom, still resonates with pastors.

  01/15/2016 - By John Rutledge

• On the Move: Darin Wood

  Darin Wood to First Baptist Church in Midland as pastor, from Central Baptist Church in Jacksonville.

  01/15/2016 - By John Rutledge

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  GuideStone conducts 2016 SBC Church Compensation Survey 

  GuideStone Financial Resources, along with LifeWay Research and Baptist state conventions, is conducting its biennial SBC Church Compensation Survey.

  01/15/2016 - By John Rutledge

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  IMB layoffs hit home; no additional missionaries required to leave overseas

  The Southern Baptist International Mission Board announced Jan. 14 the elimination of its stateside communications department. From BNG

  01/14/2016 - By Ken Camp

• Marketed faith fuels Millennials’ distrust of church

  American churches already struggling with ways to attract young people got more bad news: Millennials don’t like them very much. Worse yet, their esteem of religious organizations is dropping right along with that of the news media, a Pew Research Center survey says. From BNG

  01/14/2016 - By Ken Camp

• Survey: Churches increasingly unwilling to adapt

  Research shows that while many churches have found success by embracing change, many more view adaptation much more skeptically. From BNG

  01/14/2016 - By Ken Camp

• Longtime Baptist leader Bill Self dies at 83

  Bill Self, a longtime Atlanta-area pastor and prominent Baptist leader for decades, died Jan. 9 after a long struggle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. From BNG

  01/14/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  TBM tops 1,000 volunteer days—and still counting—after tornadoes

  Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers helped residents affected by tornadoes that hit the day after Christmas.

  01/14/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Wanda Lee announces plans to retire from WMU

  Wanda Lee told the national Woman’s Missionary Union board of directors she plans to retire as the Southern Baptist missions auxiliary’s executive director-treasurer.

  01/14/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Around the State: Church safety seminar, ETBU award-winner, HSU enrichment program

  Heart of Texas Baptist Camp sponsors a church safety seminar. Molly Woodruff receives the President’s Award at East Texas Baptist University. Deadline Feb. 29 to apply for summer enrichment program at Hardin-Simmons University.

  01/13/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  UMHB helps bring Holocaust Museum exhibit to Central Texas

  The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, in partnership with the Bell County Museum, brought a traveling exhibit about the Holocaust to Central Texas.

  01/13/2016 - By Ken Camp