Jesus in MySpace: Churches
use social-networking sites

(ABP) -- Social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are redefining the way many Americans build and maintain relationships -- and also how their churches communicate.

On Bush’s faith-based programs,
Obama says save best, ditch rest

ZANESVILLE, Ohio (ABP) – Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama vowed July 1 to carry on the best parts -- and dump the worst -- of President Bush’s so-called “faith-based initiative.”

Analysis:
Dobson confused at best about
Obama speech, defenders say

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- James Dobson thinks that Barack Obama holds to a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution’s religion clauses -- but Dobson’s own interpretation of a two-year-old Obama speech that occasioned the critique may be far fruitier.

Most evangelicals, Baptists tolerant,
even universalist, survey suggests

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A massive survey of Americans’ religious views shows that Baptists, like the overall population, generally are socially tolerant of other faiths.

Church, state uneasy bedfellows
in recognizing legal marriages

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- In all of America’s brouhaha over whether legalizing same-sex marriage will sully the institution’s sanctity, very few Christians are asking one important question:

When -- and why -- did the government get into the sanctification business in the first place?

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Couples counting down to wedding consider program time well-spentn
What happens when cohabitating couples want to join the church?

Young CBFers, responding to Sherman,
call for end to bitter anti-SBC rhetoric

ATLANTA (ABP) -- In response to controversial comments at the recent Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, a group of younger CBF supporters has called for an end to “old rhetoric” and for renewed attention to the world’s needs.

CBF expands poverty commitment;
launches process for future direction

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) -- An update on how the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is helping achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals -- a commitment the organization’s top decision-making body made last fall -- topped the agenda of the CBF’s annual General Assembly in Memphis, Tenn., June 19-20.

Baptist Life

- CBF worker furthers education for children in Ethiopian town (7/1)

- Michael Clyburn assumes helm at Alderson-Broaddus College (7/1)

- Young CBFers, responding to Sherman, call for end to bitter anti-SBC rhetoric (6/25)

- Defending minorities very Baptist, Wright-Riggins tells BJC banquet (6/25)

- Richmond seminary names Israel Galindo as dean (6/25)

- OBU trustees name social science school for longtime supporter (6/25)

- Correction (6/25)

- CBF expands poverty commitment; launches process for future direction (6/23)

- ‘Missional engagement’ should have priority, say respondents (6/23)

- BWIM celebrates 25 years of women in ministry (6/23)

- Modern slavery global scourge, speakers tell CBF supporters (6/23)

- Young CBF supporters mark 9/11 with mission projects (6/23)

- CBF General Assembly begins with historic commissioning service (6/20)

- Civil-rights struggle ongoing, journalists at ABP event say (6/20)

- Mission projects precede CBF General Assembly in Memphis (6/20)

- Civil-rights leader garners Whitsitt Courage Award (6/20)

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Religion News

- Most evangelicals, Baptists tolerant, even universalist, survey suggests (6/25)

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Congregational Life

- Jesus in MySpace: Churches use social-networking sites (7/3)

- Name connects East Texas church with Middle Eastern Christians (6/27)

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Culture

- Opinion: Hearing the full story (7/1)

- Love and Marriage: Church, state uneasy bedfellows in recognizing legal marriages (6/25)

- Love & Marriage: Couples counting down to wedding consider program time well-spent (6/25)

- Love & Marriage: What happens when cohabitating couples want to join the church? (6/25)

- Correction (6/23)

- Women’s wresting draws attention to Missouri Baptist University (6/20)

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Public Affairs

- Felice Gaer to serve as chair of religious-freedom panel (7/3)

- Opinion: God, country and the 4th of July (7/3)

- Clarification (7/3)

- On Bush’s faith-based programs, Obama says save best, ditch rest (7/1)

- Analysis: Dobson confused at best about Obama speech, defenders say (6/27)

- Opinion: America’s moral center says ‘no’ to torture (6/27)

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