Updated:
Gay marriage moves ahead in Calif.
after state Supreme Court ruling

SAN FRANCISCO (ABP) -- Sixty years after their predecessors handed down a landmark decision allowing interracial marriages, the California Supreme Court justices May 15 did the same for same-sex marriage, overturning a statewide ban on the controversial practice.

Analysis:
‘Evangelical Manifesto’ draws praise,
critique from across Baptist life

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- If the authors of “An Evangelical Manifesto,” released May 7, aimed to inspire conversation and self-reflection among their kindred, they certainly succeeded.

Blogging Baptists:
As many motivations for blogging
as there are bloggers

DALLAS (ABP) -- For some people, blogs are like a family reunion where people barely know each other. There's a lot of talking going on, but there's little agreement on much of anything.

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Guidelines for ethical blogging? Start with the New Testament
Blogs only latest battleground for historical Baptist contention

Baptists mobilize relief efforts
after Mother’s Day tornadoes

(ABP) – Various Baptist disaster-relief groups began mobilizing chainsaw teams and feeding units May 12 to assist victims of deadly tornadoes that tore across the Midwest and Southeast Mother’s Day weekend.

Baptist groups mobilizing
aid for Burmese victims

BANGKOK, Thailand (ABP) - Baptist groups are among the scores of international aid organizations trying desperately to bring relief to the hundreds of thousands of cyclone victims in Burma.

Surprise move at Two Rivers Baptist
reverses vote, ousts dissidents

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- One week after an effort to oust 71 members of Two Rivers Baptist Church failed by four votes, the Nashville megachurch voted again and this time removed the dissidents on a show-of-hands vote.

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Melissa Rogers, director of the Center for Religion & Public Affairs at Wake Forest University, talks about the intersection of church and state during the T.B. Maston Christian Ethics Lectures at Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon Seminary.

Mix of politics, religion inevitable,
but all blends not equal, scholar says

ABILENE, Texas (ABP) -- Religion and politics inevitably will mix -- especially in the U.S. presidential campaign -- but that does not mean Americans should sanction a free-for-all, church-state expert Melissa Rogers insisted.

Rogers, director of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., delivered the annual T.B. Maston Christian Ethics Lectures at Hardin-Simmons University's Logsdon Seminary in Abilene.

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Faith-in-schools debate best handled in local communities

In Indiana, N.C. primaries,
Obama cuts into Clinton’s Catholic lead

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Echoing his successes in earlier contests, Barack Obama cut into the recent advantage Hillary Clinton had built among Roman Catholics during the Indiana and North Carolina Democratic presidential primaries May 6.

Crowded SBC presidential field
grows by 2: Avery Willis, Johnny Hunt

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (ABP) -- A crowded field of hopefuls for the Southern Baptist Convention presidency appears to be developing, with two high-profile candidates set to join three already-announced nominees.

Baptist Life

- Fellowship announces formal partnership with Ghana Baptist Convention (5/15)

- Three Baptist universities rank high in new survey (5/15)

- Analysis: ‘Evangelical Manifesto’ draws praise, critique from across Baptist life (5/15)

- Baptists mobilize relief efforts after Mother’s Day tornadoes (5/13)

- Blogging Baptists: As many motivations for blogging as there are bloggers (5/13)

- Blogging Baptists: Guidelines for ethical blogging? Start with the New Testament (5/13)

- Blogging Baptists: Blogs only latest battleground for historical Baptist contention (5/13)

- CBF to commission 18 missionaries under new online cohort process (5/13)

- Longtime Baptist musician, seminary professor dies (5/13)

- Baptist groups mobilizing aid for Burmese victims (5/12)

- Surprise move at Two Rivers Baptist reverses vote, ousts dissidents (5/12)

- Children from FLDS compound praise Texas Baptist agency (5/12)

- Iowa church, CBF commit to S.D. Indian reservation (5/12)

- Speakers tell British Baptists: fight global warming, poverty (5/8)

- Crowded SBC presidential field grows by 2: Avery Willis, Johnny Hunt (5/6)

- Half of SBC churches could die before 2030, president predicts (5/6)

- Opinion: How real is the Resurrection? (5/6)

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Religion News

- Southern gospel music legend Dottie Rambo dies in crash (5/15)

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Congregational Life

- Opinion: How are Christians accountable to each other? (5/8)

- Nashville megachurch fails to oust dissident members (5/6)

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Culture

- Christ identifies with poor, Vestal tells Baylor students (5/6)

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Public Affairs

- Gay marriage moves ahead in Calif. after state Supreme Court ruling (5/15)

- Mix of politics, religion inevitable, but all blends not equal, scholar says (5/12)

- Faith-in-schools debate best handled in local communities, Rogers says (5/12)

- In Indiana, N.C. primaries, Obama cuts into Clinton’s Catholic lead (5/8)

- Iraq status reportedly divides panel on religious freedom (5/8)

- Upcoming ‘Manifesto’ rebukes evangelicals for becoming pawns (5/6)

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