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Rural Churches: Strong sense of community gives churches new life Print E-mail
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By Vicki Brown   
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
(ABP) -- America’s rural churches were built upon and grew from a strong sense of community. Although many of rural congregations are in decline now, that community reliance may be the key to spiritual renewal and to thriving ministry.
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Chaplain: Executed woman was true to faith until end Print E-mail
Faith & Culture
By Jim White   
Monday, September 27, 2010
JARRATT, Va. (ABP) -- For Lynn Litchfield, the former chaplain at Virginia’s Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, the past few weeks have been a heartbreaking build-up to the execution of Teresa Lewis. On Sept. 23, Lewis became the first woman put to death by the Commonwealth of Virginia in nearly a century.
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Texas religious leaders denounce Islamic-bias-in-textbooks resolution Print E-mail
Faith & Culture
By Robert Marus   
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) -- A group of Texas clergy, including some Baptist pastors, is speaking out against a proposed resolution that a state governing board may use to embroil itself yet again in the nation’s culture wars -- this time over Islam.
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Fear not, Jesus said -- but some Christians still do Print E-mail
Faith & Culture
Friday, September 10, 2010

(ABP) -- Perfect love, wrote the Apostle John, casts out fear.

For Christians, that simple maxim would seem to be an easy formula for stress-free living. But 2,000 years after those words were written, many disciples of Christ still find their lives dominated by fear—and worse, many Christian leaders believe, their response to it often is indistinguishable from that of the society in which they live.
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Faith, fear clash in middle Tennessee over proposed mosque Print E-mail
Faith & Culture
Friday, September 10, 2010
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (ABP) -- Mike Smith, pastor of First Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn., received an anonymous letter this summer asking him to warn his congregation that a proposed new mosque near the city was part of “a long-range plan to destroy Western civilization as we know it.”
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Downtown churches are an idea whose time has come, some observe. The revitalization of America's urban cores and the migration of people to renovated downtown apartments and condominiums have positioned these congregations in some of the country's most energetic neighborhoods. [Read More]

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