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(ABP) -- In a recent Baptists Today article, I read about a 19th-century Baptist congregation that censured a slave for dancing. The slave was a "member" of the church, though as human chattel, it was his job merely to sit in the slave balcony, keep his mouth shut, be subservient as they believed the Bible required (Eph. 6:5; Col. 3:22), and count on his heavenly reward to someday make everything right.
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(ABP) -- My dad left one treasure for me to find after he died. Without a map for guidance, I needed providence and social media on my journey to discovery.
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DALLAS (ABP) -- Some things have changed a bit since 1949 at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas. Then, the church met in a house. Today, its 9,000 members fill a mammoth sanctuary in multiple worship services.
One thing hasn’t changed, though: Martha Howard still can be found
teaching her room full of kindergartners every Sunday morning -- just
as she has for 60 years.
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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (ABP) -- Despite a shaky economy, Virginia Baptists
in their recent annual meeting adopted a 2010 budget of $14 million --
about 1.4 percent larger than 2009’s budget, which is expected to see a
shortfall.
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(ABP) -- Thanksgiving week is upon us. The annual celebration centered on gratitude for God’s blessings -- for our nation, for family and all other good gifts -- comes to a troubled, hungry, divided nation this year.
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WACO, Texas (ABP) -- Federal, state and local leaders met at a Baptist college Nov. 19 to begin a discussion that they hope will lead to actions to endfood insecurity in one of the nation’s biggest states by 2015.
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DALLAS (ABP) -- A Baptist minister hoping to open the nation's first faith-based prison says he is confident it will pass constitutional muster.
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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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