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Churches try varied ways to approach question of membership and baptism Print E-mail
Faith & Culture
Thursday, April 22, 2010
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) -- Baptism and local church membership have been inextricably linked historically in the minds of many Baptists. But that view is shifting as a decline in denominational loyalty and the easy movement of American Christians among churches of all stripes have created what writer Phyllis Tickle is calling the “great emergence” -- a swirling convergence of denominational traditions toward a spiritual Christian core.
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What happens when Baptists cannot agree about baptism? Print E-mail
Faith & Culture
Thursday, April 22, 2010
DALLAS (ABP) -- If Baptists -- in all their diversity -- cannot agree on baptism, some theologians wonder what is left to unite them.
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Obama administration to appeal ruling against National Day of Prayer Print E-mail
Nation
By Bob Allen   
Thursday, April 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- The U.S. Justice Department announced April 22 it would appeal a federal court ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.
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Ky. high court strikes down public funding of Baptist pharmacy school Print E-mail
Baptists
By Bob Allen   
Thursday, April 22, 2010
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABP) -- The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled April 22 that Baptist-affiliated University of the Cumberlands cannot use $10 million of taxpayer money to build a pharmacy school.
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Hundreds gather to remember Cecil Sherman Print E-mail
Baptists
By Jim White   
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) -- Friends and family members of Cecil Sherman filled the spacious sanctuary of River Road Church, Baptist, in Richmond, Va., April 20 to celebrate his life in the first of two scheduled memorial services.

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Churches composed primarily of first-generation immigrants to the United States often face obstacles -- linguistic, financial and cultural -- in terms of fitting into an Anglo-dominated society. But they may possess a strategic advantage in fulfilling Christ's Great Commission. [Read More]
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