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CBF Coordinating Council recommends reduced budget Print E-mail
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By Bob Allen   
Friday, February 19, 2010
CBF moderator Hal Bass presides at Coordinating Council meeting Feb. 19.

DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) -- The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will vote this summer on a new budget $1.65 million smaller than the current spending plan.

The CBF Coordinating Council voted Feb. 19 to recommend a $14.5 million budget for 2010-2011, to be presented at the organization's General Assembly June 23-26 in Charlotte, N.C. CBF moderator Hal Bass called it "a realistic budget" after more than a year of reduced spending under a contingency budget based on declining revenue.

 
Baptist reaction to Kenneth Starr choice as Baylor president runs gamut Print E-mail
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By Robert Marus and Ken Camp   
Thursday, February 18, 2010
WACO, Texas (ABP) -- Early Baptist reaction to the surprise choice of a controversial national political figure to serve as president of Baylor University has ranged from enthusiastic to skeptical to outraged.
 
Former youth minister pleads guilty to abuse Print E-mail
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By Bob Allen   
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
SEAFORD, Va. (ABP) -- A former associate pastor and minister of youth at a Southern Baptist church in Virginia pleaded guilty Feb. 11 to sex offenses against two teenage girls.
 
Starr receives enthusiastic -- but not unanimous -- Baylor welcome Print E-mail
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By Ken Camp   
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
WACO (ABP) -- Kenneth Starr received an enthusiastic -- but not unanimous -- welcome to Baylor University when he arrived at the Bill Daniel Student Center to be introduced to faculty, staff and students as the school’s president-elect Feb. 16.
 
CBF promotes Bible listening during Lent Print E-mail
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By Bob Allen   
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
ATLANTA (ABP) -- Members of hundreds of churches affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will be listening to the Bible during the 40 days of Lent.
 
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Christian ethics and social networking

A student's Facebook entry chronicles the painful details of a romantic break-up. Or describes an ill-spent weekend partying with friends. Or scathingly blisters someone who holds differing political views. Fast-forward a few years. That same student sits in a job interview -- or maybe at a conference table with a church search committee -- and has to answer uncomfortable questions about those entries. [Read More] ...

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