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Are Baptists and other evangelicals as willing to demonstrate the same commitment to religious liberty for everyone that early theologians did?

CBF Heartland made its annual Circle of Giving presentation of a check for $5,000 during its “state” meting at the CBF General Assembly in Atlanta on June 26. The recipient is the Samuel Project of CBF field personnel Shane and Diane McNary, who minister among the Romany people in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

As church planting efforts burgeon and congregations look for new ways to reach their communities, opportunities for ministry outside the building grow. While leaders often are aware of safety issues at church, the same concerns must be examined outside the facility as well.

What is happening to Christianity in the United Kingdom is heading to the United States, one British theologian believes. And U.S. Christians can benefit from the lessons the English have learned as they continue to struggle with changes in a post-Christian world.

The 2014 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta, will provide live streaming this year. The theme of this year's June 23-27 gathering is "Woven Together." More information about the schedule and a list of workshops can be fouund on the organization's page for the General Assembly.

A banquet and commissioning service kicks off the streaming, beginning at 6 p.m. CT on Wednesday, June 25. Click here to access the stream. 

The church has used the arts to share God's story. Believers today still use the transcendence of creative expression in worship.

Believers are not limited to church or religious settings as a vehicle for artistic expression. Many have found mainstream audiences receptive to a sacred, uplifting word.

The Missouri Baptist Convention has bought about 970 acres that originally had been part of Windermere Baptist Conference Center. News reports indicate that the purchase includes shoreline on both sides of the current Windermere facilities on the Lake of the Ozarks.

Missouri ocularist Carolyn O'Neill ministers through her vocation in Haiti and in St. Louis by fitting, shaping and painting ocular prostheses for those who have lost the organ due to disease or injury.

If a lower court decision stands, the Missouri Baptist Foundation faces a debt to the Missouri Baptist Convention that could reach more than $5 million.