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Monday | Inside Bay Area

Barnidge: Scouting program's future looks just as bright as its past

Speculation about the future of the Boy Scouts of America began almost as soon as the group's leaders voted last month to discontinue a ban on gay members.

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Monday | Florida Baptist Witness

Adam Greenway, a native Floridian, named dean of Billy Graham School at Southern Seminary

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Related Topix: Florida, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Religion

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Alabama Live

Southern Baptist President Fred Luter says his church will stop...

The Rev. Fred Luter was at the podium of the Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday, running business for the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

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Examiner.com

'Signs, Wonders and a Baptist Preacher: How Jesus...by Chad Norris

Southern Baptists are not known to favor prophecy, speak in tongues or operate in any of the spiritual gifts.

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Related Topix: Religion, Supernatural, South Carolina

Fri Jun 14, 2013

The Courier-Journal

Faith & Works | Southern Baptists recognize mental illness as medical issue

Sobered by national tragedies linked to mental illness -- as well as the suicides of two prominent church leaders' children -- Southern Baptists this week affirmed the "wise use of medical intervention for mental health concerns when appropriate."

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Related Topix: Religion, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

WTLC-AM Indianapolis

Southern Baptists want changes at the top of Boy Scouts

The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday planned to call for the removal of some of the Boy Scouts' leadership after the youth organization voted to allow gay youth to join, but would not ask its affiliated churches to pull their sponsorship of Scouting.

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Related Topix: Religion, Gay/Lesbian

ReporterNews.com

Terry Mattingly: Baptist churches reporting fewer baptisms

Visitors who enter Southern Baptist churches these days will usually see posters and pamphlets for everything from marriage-enrichment retreats to tornado-relief fundraisers, from weight-loss classes to drives to find volunteers for African hospitals.

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Related Topix: Religion, Wedding, Louisville, KY

Examiner.com

Calvin inclined?

Southern Baptists held their annual convention this week, in Houston, and besides the controversy over whether some Boy Scout troops will burn in Hell, one of the major topics of conversation was the role Calvinism should assume in the church.

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Religion News Service

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly - " June 14

The G8 economic summit begins shortly in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, scene of a sectarian bombing that killed eleven people in 1987 - the work of the Irish Republican Army.

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Related Topix: Fermanagh County, Northern Ireland, World News, United Kingdom, Irish Republican Army, Religion

Thu Jun 13, 2013

Examiner.com

'Signs, Wonders and a Baptist Preacher' by Chad Norris

Southern Baptists are not known to favor prophecy, speak in tongues or operate in any of the spiritual gifts.

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Related Topix: Religion, Supernatural, South Carolina

WATE-TV Knoxville

United Methodist Church welcomes scouts displaced by Southern Baptists

"To love your neighbor is to love your neighbor without conditions," Chuck Jones, the president of the National Association of United Methodist Scouters, said.

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WETM-TV Elmira

Southern Baptist conference center sold for $1

The Southern Baptist Convention's Lifeway Christian Resources is selling a financially troubled conference center in New Mexico to a group that already operates a Christian camp in Texas.

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WTLC-AM Indianapolis

Rick Warren Thanks Southern Baptists For Passing Resolution On Mental Illness

SBC members weighed in on mental illness in their annual meeting yesterday. While the resolution was being considered, Rick Warren, who has worked to keep mental illness in the national spotlight after his son Matthew committed suicide earlier this year, tweeted: "TODAY we ask #SBC13 to approve a resolution on raising awareness and lowering the ... (more)

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Church Executive

Huckabee questions church tax-exemption

The former pastor and president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention said June 10 at a pastors' conference prior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Houston that recent reports the IRS targeted certain groups for greater scrutiny should cause great concern about religious freedom in the U.S. "The recent revelations that the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Huckabee, Entertainment, Television, US Politics, Mike Huckabee, Religion, US News, Arkansas, Arkansas Government, Tax

World Magazine

Signs and Wonders: SBC president calls for more black missionaries

Southern Baptists begin. The nation's largest protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention , is meeting this week in Houston.

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Sojourners

Wounding and Welcome in the Church

TWO YEARS AGO, Jeff Chu found himself at a crossroads. Like many gay Christians, he felt disconnected-condemned by a wide swath of his fellow believers because of his sexual orientation, questioned because of his faith by some in the LGBTQ community who have been pushed out of the church by the words and actions of many Christians.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Religion, Wedding

Wed Jun 12, 2013

The Town Talk

Southern Baptists vote to oppose Boy Scout policy allowing homosexuals

The Rev. Fred Luter Jr. is congratulated Wednesday after being re-elected as the Southern Baptist Convention's president during the 2013 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.

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The Courier-Journal

Southern Baptists: Take care with ties to those accused of mishandling abuse

With controversy over a Louisville pastor in the backdrop, Southern Baptist messengers today voted Wednesday to call on their leaders to use the "highest sense of discernment" in affiliating with anyone with "questionable" practices or policies on sexual abuse.

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Related Topix: Religion, Louisville, KY, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Houston Press

[Photos] Westboro Protests Southern Baptists

In the world of protestors, there are the revolutionary type and the pacifist/sit-in type , and then you have the bat-shit crazy, inappropriate, and downright horrible type.

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KFVS12

Southern Baptists officially oppose gay Scout rule

President Barack Obama is visiting Massachusetts on Wednesday to rally voters ahead of a special Senate election, as he presses ahead on a pledge to work harder to elect Democrats in his second term.

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Related Topix: Religion, Gay/Lesbian, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Death Penalty