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BUSINESS CASUAL, NO TIES RECOMMENDED FOR PHOENIX

June 5, 2017

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press PHOENIX (BP) — Messengers and speakers attending the Southern Baptist Convention 2017 Annual Meeting in Phoenix are encouraged to dress appropriately for daily temperatures surpassing 100 degrees. “Because of the severe heat in Phoenix during the summer months, I encourage all messengers to the 2017 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting […]

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’10 QUESTIONS’: PAGE’S GUIDE FOR PASTOR SEARCHES

June 2, 2017

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press NASHVILLE (BP) — “Pastor Searches for Dummies” would have been a fitting title for the latest book from Frank S. Page, he wrote in the book’s introduction. Instead, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee President and CEO chose “Looking for a New Pastor” as the title of his new guidebook. […]

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GALLUP RECORDS ‘HUMBLING’ MORAL DECLINE

June 2, 2017

By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — A Gallup poll indicating Americans are more “left-leaning” than ever on 10 of 19 moral issues has been called “humbling” and “chastening” by a Southern Baptist Convention seminary president. A Fordham University ethicist critiqued the poll as “deeply misleading” for suggesting moral permissiveness is limited to liberals. In […]

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NAMB RESPONDS TO LAWSUIT

June 2, 2017

Baptist and Reflector ABERDEEN, Miss. — The North American Mission Board has filed an official response to a lawsuit by former Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware executive director Will McRaney, who alleges NAMB wrongly interfered with his separation from the BCMD in 2015, engaged in “slander and/or libel” and attempted to interfere with his speaking engagements. […]

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GRANT GAINES TO NOMINATE HIS DAD

May 31, 2017

Baptist Press PHOENIX — Tennessee pastor Steve Gaines will be nominated for a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, his son Grant announced May 17. Gaines “has led the convention faithfully” over the past year and been “marked by … godly traits,” Grant Gaines, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson, wrote […]

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VETERAN USES WAR EXPERIENCE TO MINISTER TO AIRMEN

May 26, 2017

By Jane Rodgers Southern Baptist Texan EDITOR’S NOTE: May 29 is Memorial Day. SAN ANTONIO (BP) — As an Air Force pararescueman in Vietnam, Doug Brinson often faced death to save downed pilots, including a treacherous three-week stretch of missions in 1972 that shaped his life in ways he will never forget. “I probably aged […]

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WHAT IS RAMADAN, AND WHY SHOULD CHRISTIANS CARE?

May 25, 2017

International Mission Board Imagine not taking in food or drink during daylight hours for twenty-eight days straight. Envision what it would be like for that practice to be directly linked to your standing in society or your stature with God. This is the reality for Muslims during the month of Ramadan, a time when every […]

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GAINES CALLS FOR 21-DAY FAST BEFORE PHOENIX SBC

May 24, 2017

by David Roach Baptist Press EDITOR’S NOTE: The full text of SBC President Steve Gaines’ call to prayer is printed below. PHOENIX (BP) — Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines has called Southern Baptists to 21 days of prayer and fasting leading up to the SBC annual meeting in Phoenix. The fast will begin May […]

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GRADY COTHEN, FORMER PRES. OF 2 SBC ENTITIES, DIES

May 24, 2017

By David Roach, Baptist Press and Marilyn Stewart, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary RIDGELAND, Miss. (BP) — Grady Cothen — the former chief executive of a state convention, a Southern Baptist university and two Southern Baptist Convention entities — died May 19 at The Orchard retirement home in Ridgeland, Miss. He was 96. Among his […]

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GRAHAM TOUR TARGETS TENNESSEE TOWNS

May 19, 2017

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It’s not often an evangelist with the following of Billy Graham’s son Franklin hosts gospel events in communities as small as Jackson, home to about 68,000 people. Fresh from the success of the 2016 Decision America Tour that drew a total of 230,000 people to prayer rallies […]

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SOUTHWESTERN TO HOUSE BILL WALLACE PAPERS

May 17, 2017

By Julie Owens Baptist Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Southern Baptist medical missionary and martyr Bill Wallace suffered profoundly in his last weeks on earth, but he had long been prepared. “There is no sacrifice in all the world too great for a man to make for the Lord Jesus Christ,” he wrote in an […]

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STATE LEGISLATORS OK POST-VIABLE ABORTION BAN

May 16, 2017

By Tom Strode Baptist Press NASHVILLE — The Tennessee legislature has overwhelmingly approved a ban on post-viability abortions, drawing praise from the president of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board and the head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics entity. The House of Representatives voted 69-18 in favor of the Tennessee Infants Protection Act May 3, […]

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