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Word&Way has been dismissed from Missouri Baptist Convention litigation that has stretched over nearly eight years.

The convention, through its attorneys, filed a document in Cole County Circuit Court on April 23 voluntarily releasing the news journal from all claims against it.

2010 Archives

Deep water dilemma: Can Baptists agree on baptism? (Shurden quotes)

April 23, 2010

author: Jennifer Harris

Baptists -- always a diverse lot -- increasingly take a variety of stances when it comes to baptism and church membership.

2010 Archives

Analysis: Should Baptist churches adopt open membership? Yes.

April 22, 2010

author: brandon

Perhaps the time has come for Baptists today to ask in the same spirit whether or not Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians and others who are genuinely committed disciples of Jesus Christ are true Christians and have been accepted by the grace of the Triune God into

2010 Archives

Analysis: Should Baptist churches adopt open membership? No.

April 22, 2010

author: brandon

Should Baptist churches be encouraged to adopt open membership, or are there good reasons for not doing so? I would like to offer five of the latter.

2010 Archives

Churches try varied ways to approach question of membership and baptism

April 22, 2010

author: brandon

Baptism and local church membership have been inextricably linked historically in the minds of many Baptists. But that view is shifting as a decline in denominational loyalty and the easy movement of American Christians among churches of all stripes have created what writer Phyllis Tickle

2010 Archives

Obama administration to appeal ruling against National Day of Prayer

April 22, 2010

author: brandon

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- The U.S. Justice Department announced April 22 it would appeal a federal court ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.

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Kentucky Supreme Court strikes down public funding of Baptist pharmacy school

April 22, 2010

author: brandon

FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABP) -- The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled April 22 that Baptist-affiliated University of the Cumberlands cannot use $10 million of taxpayer money to build a pharmacy school.

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Let ’em ring: Federal court says church bells are constitutional

April 22, 2010

author: Jennifer Harris

WASHINGTON (RNS) -- A federal court on April 19 ruled an ordinance in Phoenix, Ariz., trying to limit the sound of church bells is an unconstitutional impingement on religious expression.

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Hundreds gather to remember Cecil Sherman in Richmond memorial service

April 21, 2010

author: Jennifer Harris

RICHMOND, Va. -- Friends and family members of Cecil Edwin Sherman filled the spacious sanctuary of River Road Church, Baptist, in Richmond, Va., April 20 to celebrate his life in the first of two scheduled memorial services.

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Soulforce Q visit to SBU described as ‘gentle,’ ‘spiritually violent’

April 21, 2010

author: Administrator

Characterizations of the Soulforce Q Equality Ride stop at Southwest Baptist University April 14 range from "gentle" to "spiritually violent," depending upon the person asked.

While both sides agreed that a dialog was opened, both knew they had not changed the other's

Word&Way released from MBC litigation

Deep water dilemma: Can Baptists agree on baptism? (Shurden quotes)

Analysis: Should Baptist churches adopt open membership? Yes.

Analysis: Should Baptist churches adopt open membership? No.

Churches try varied ways to approach question of membership and baptism

Obama administration to appeal ruling against National Day of Prayer

Kentucky Supreme Court strikes down public funding of Baptist pharmacy school

Let ’em ring: Federal court says church bells are constitutional

Hundreds gather to remember Cecil Sherman in Richmond memorial service

Soulforce Q visit to SBU described as ‘gentle,’ ‘spiritually violent’

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