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WEBGladys the Baptist paved a way for women. Perhaps the greatest moniker Gladys Lewis ever was given was when the comedian Grady Nutt called her “Gladys the Baptist.”. This Oklahoma City woman is not someone most contemporary Southern Baptists and Cooperative Baptists have heard of, but she helped…. Analysis Mark Wingfield.
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WEBXenoamora over xenophobia. As the 2024 election season winds its painfully polarized way to another American election day, among the most volatile issues in the fractious orbit of political conversation are border security and immigration. As a public policy question, immigration is complex…. Opinion Chuck Poole.
After 30 years, the NRSV gets an update: Here’s what that means
WEBMar 15, 2022 · The New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition, also known as NRSVue, currently is available for digital download and will be published in printed copies later this spring. The update is significant, in part, because the NRSV is a preferred translation for many biblical scholars, seminaries, and mainline and progressive …
Franklin Graham, toxic charity concerns send churches packing …
WEBNov 6, 2019 · “It’s a very tactile missions experience,” he said. But church members were hearing the troubling reports, he said. “Around the same time, the face of that organization was just becoming increasingly unkind in public, increasingly political and nasty and it wasn’t anything our church wanted to be involved with,” Jasper said.
What is a Baptist? – Baptist News Global
WEBMay 13, 2022 · Baptist means freedom. They have been from the start a “dissenting” people who stand for spiritual freedom and against all forms of tyranny, spiritual and political. So Baptists have a healthy distrust for religious hierarchy, creeds and any alliance between church and state. Baptists focus on church with a little “c” rather than a ...
I asked people why they’re leaving Christianity, and here’s what I ...
WEBDec 13, 2022 · According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this. As of Dec. 6, 2020, the hashtag “#exchristian” had 696.7 million cumulative views on TikTok and was assigned to more than 68,600 posts …
Historians trace beginning of Baptist movement back 400 years
WEBBaptists in 1609 practiced believer’s baptism, but they didn’t immerse. Even so, most church historians agree Baptists emerged as a distinct movement 400 years ago. From their beginning, Baptists have been characterized by a restless pursuit of God’s truth, Bill Leonard said. Baptists have been characterized by a restless pursuit of God ...
10 things we’re learning about the LGBTQ debate in the church
WEBFeb 13, 2018 · 4. It is important to discuss the actual issue and not use proxies for the issue. Because LGBTQ inclusion in the church is such a difficult topic, and because of the fears outlined above, the conversation sometimes falls to proxy debates to avoid the main difficult debate. These are diversionary tactics that must be labeled for what they are.
Most comprehensive study yet of COVID's impact on churches …
WEBNov 12, 2021 · The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the decline facing most congregations in America, but the effects are not evenly distributed among all churches, according to the most comprehensive study to date of the pandemic and congregational life.. The “Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations” study is a collaborative …
Why Beth Moore’s departure from the SBC really matters
WEBMar 10, 2021 · Jeff Straub, professor of historical theology and missions at Central Seminary in Plymouth, Minn., explained the background in a Feb. 28 article posted on the seminary’s website.. Describing a current call for a second “conservative resurgence” within the SBC, he called attention to the Conservative Baptist Network and Founders …