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(ABP) -- During the November 11, 2009, business session of the Georgia Baptist Convention, messengers to the Southern Baptist-affiliated state body dismissed the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga., from fellowship for the church's calling of Julie Pennington-Russell as senior pastor in 2007. The SBC will not establish a database to track ministerial child abusers out of fear of "violating local church autonomy," but when it comes to a church calling a woman to preach the gospel, church autonomy is slain at the feet of conventional conformity.
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BUENA PARK, Calif. (ABP) -- A former Southern Baptist Convention officer who made headlines in June when he said on national radio that he was praying for Barack Obama to die now says he wants to see the president live long enough to stand trial for treason.
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Wakita, Okla., where most of the 1996 blockbuster "Twister" starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton was filmed, could be home to the nation's first prison staffed entirely by Christians.
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A church-state watchdog group says a faith-based prison being proposed in Oklahoma would likely be unconstitutional
Americans United for Separation of Church and State wrote
the Oklahoma Department of Corrections Nov. 18 advising the state not
to send prisoners to what would be the first all-Christian prison in
the country.
Formerly best known as the town used for filming the 1996 blockbuster
movie "Twister," Wakita, Okla., has been back in the news lately with
town leaders supporting the building of a 600-bed facility for men
nearing the end of their prison terms. The prison would employ only
Christians.
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(ABP) -- If I were being completely honest, I would tell you that the whole idea was a little, tiny bit self-serving.
Having recently completed my doctor-of-ministry degree in preaching, I, strangely enough, managed to maintain my passion for the subject even through all the pain of slogging toward graduation. I love preaching; I feel an urgency about how it should and can be done; and, most of all, I love to talk about it with other people who feel the same.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- Attention video gamers: The Bible is coming to an Xbox near you.
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- New government numbers revealing that, in 2008, nearly one in six Americans lived in households that struggled to afford food ought to be a wake-up call for Christians, according to two Baptist ethicists.
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The ACLU of Tennessee claims teachers and administrators routinely promote their religious beliefs to students at Sycamore High School.
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ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (ABP) -- Tennessee's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Nov. 16 accusing the Cheatham County Board of Education of ignoring more than four decades of court decisions interpreting the separation of church and state.
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Christian musician Jaci Valesquez leads worship during the Justice Revival in Dallas.
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DALLAS (ABP) -- In the Dallas area, churches are participating in a new
kind of revival -- one that takes notice of the 5,800 homeless people
and the 89 percent of Dallas high school seniors who are not college-
or career-ready when they graduate. And they are setting aside
differences to follow God’s command to help the least of these.
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