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Relief workers acknowledge the close working relationship between government and religious agencies may blur the lines of church-state separation, especially when the desperation of victims pushes such concerns to the back burner.

2010 Archives

Liberty and Justice: Church-state lines can blur when disasters strike

July 2, 2010

author: Administrator

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) -- Responding to disasters with immediate and long-term assistance has become a well-established practice of American religious groups -- including Baptists, who frequently are almost as visible following devastating earthquakes and hurricanes as the Federal Emergency Management Agency

2010 Archives

When church-state separation bumps up against doing justice

July 2, 2010

author: brandon

Challenges to maintaining religious liberty come from all directions—including the dilemma of whether Baptist social-service agencies should accept government funds to perform their ministries.

2010 Archives

W. Va. Baptists mourn Byrd’s passing; Va. Baptist church to host funeral

June 29, 2010

author: Administrator

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- West Virginia Baptists are mourning the passing of one of their most famous members -- longtime Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va) -- and a Virginia Baptist congregation will host his memorial service July 6.

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KC church is state’s oldest Hispanic Baptist work

June 21, 2010

author: Administrator

First Westside Baptist Church in Kansas City likely is the oldest Baptist work, at least the oldest continuous congregation, among Hispanics in Missouri.

2010 Archives

Georgia church planter elected SBC president

June 15, 2010

author: Administrator

In a surprise move, Southern Baptists said no to two well-known presidential candidates and elected a church planter from Marietta, Ga., to lead them in the coming year.

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Columbia church ministers through vehicle maintenance

June 7, 2010

author: Administrator

COLUMBIA — Seven years ago, Kevin and Sara Gaines led their church to provide maintenance for single mothers.

2010 Archives

Church and founding pastor either grow together, or somebody moves on

June 3, 2010

author: brandon

Whether the founding pastor of a church matures with the congregation or moves on once the new work is well established depends on a host of factors, according to three church-growth and church-planting experts. And either the initial focus on which the church started or

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Judge says school cannot hold graduation ceremony in church

June 1, 2010

author: brandon

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (ABP) -- A federal judge ruled May 31 that a Connecticut school district's plan to hold graduation ceremonies in a mega-church violates the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state and ordered school officials to find a secular alternative site.

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Mercer taps former Southwestern Seminary professor to lead church-music institute

May 28, 2010

author: brandon

MACON, Ga. (ABP) -- David Keith, a professor of church music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for 27 years before retiring in 2006, has been named director of the Townsend-McAfee Institute for Graduate Studies in Church Music at Mercer University in Macon, Ga.

Lines of church-state separation may get blurry in disaster zones

Liberty and Justice: Church-state lines can blur when disasters strike

When church-state separation bumps up against doing justice

W. Va. Baptists mourn Byrd’s passing; Va. Baptist church to host funeral

KC church is state’s oldest Hispanic Baptist work

Georgia church planter elected SBC president

Columbia church ministers through vehicle maintenance

Church and founding pastor either grow together, or somebody moves on

Judge says school cannot hold graduation ceremony in church

Mercer taps former Southwestern Seminary professor to lead church-music institute

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