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Opinion: Will the world end on May 21? Print E-mail
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By Jim Denison   
Monday, May 16, 2011
(ABP) -- A billboard on the way to my office proclaims "Judgment Day May 21" and states that "The Bible Guarantees It." The group behind this prediction has purchased 1,200 billboards in the United States and 2,000 in foreign countries announcing their claim. They have also sent 20 recreational vehicles around the country emblazoned with their message. Media professionals believe they have spent as much as $3 million in advertising.
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Opinion: Why can't Americans be honest about the Civil War? Print E-mail
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By Alan Bean   
Friday, May 13, 2011
(ABP) -- As we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, a new Harris Interactive Poll suggests that 54 percent of Americans believe the South seceded over states rights, not slavery. That would have been news to the folks at the helm of the Confederacy.
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Opinion: While Jesus tarries Print E-mail
Can I Get A Witness?
By Bill Leonard   
Thursday, May 12, 2011
(ABP) -- “But one thing remains to be proved. When did the 2,300 years begin?... Let us begin it where the angel told us, from the going forth of the decree to build the walls of Jerusalem in troublous times, 457 years before Christ; take 457 from 2,300 [Daniel 4:18], and it will leave A.D. 1843.”
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Opinion: Don’t try to ‘fix’ women in ministry Print E-mail
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By Laura Rector   
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
(ABP) -- I’m in the bookstore at an egalitarian seminary. Unfortunately, not everyone there is an egalitarian. An older gentleman waylays me, finds out what I do, and starts telling me I’m sinning for feeling called and for being one kind of Baptist and not another kind, and that I’m wasting my education by not using it to disciple only other women. All I really want to do is get my cup of coffee and get back to my schedule, but I try to be polite so he feels heard.
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Opinion: In praise of press, religious freedom Print E-mail
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By Bill Webb   
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
(ABP) -- The Board of Directors of Associated Baptist Press paid homage to a pair of significant American freedoms with awards May 1 in Winston-Salem, N.C. About 125 people gathered for a dinner honoring longtime Baptist editor R.G. Puckett and Melissa Rogers of Wake Forest Divinity School for their contributions to press and religious freedom respectively.
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