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Monday, August 17, 2015

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  • Parliamentarian Barry McCarty now a Baptist
    by J. Gerald Harris/Georgia Christian Index, posted Monday, August 17, 2015 (9 years ago)

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    ATLANTA (BP) -- If Southern Baptist Convention annual meetings were tallied like college or NBA basketball games, Barry McCarty would be the leader in minutes played. In the course of 29 annual meetings, no one has accumulated more platform time in the SBC's annual sessions than the well-known chief parliamentarian.

    The Atlanta native -- who became a Southern Baptist on Sunday (Aug. 16) and is joining the faculty of an SBC seminary -- has logged some 540 hours on the platform. But that is only a small part of what the convention parliamentarian actually ... Read More

  • Study: Gay teens have higher pregnancy rates
    by David Roach, posted Monday, August 17, 2015 (9 years ago)

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (BP) -- A Minnesota study that found lesbian teens four times more likely to become pregnant than their heterosexual peers has been called a predictable reflection of the homosexual community's apparent emphasis on sexual activity.

    "Some people may be shocked by the high pregnancy rates among the lesbian and gay teens," Evan Lenow, assistant professor of ethics at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, told Baptist Press in written comments. "However, this confirms what studies have shown for years. ... Read More

  • Missionary remembered as godly mother, wife
    by Mark Kelly, posted Monday, August 17, 2015 (9 years ago)

    CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (BP) -- On the evening before she and her family had planned to return overseas, Kyra Lynn Karr, a Southern Baptist missionary to Italy, was killed in a traffic accident, Aug. 13.

    News reports indicate a tractor-trailer driver exited his vehicle to conduct a safety inspection but the safety brake was not engaged and the truck began to roll. The vehicle hit the pickup in which Karr was traveling, crushing it against the highway guardrail on U.S. 41 in Bartow County, Ga. Karr, 30, died at the scene. Read More

  • Boko Haram head dispels rumors of his death
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, August 17, 2015 (9 years ago)

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    LAGOS, Nigeria (BP) -- An audio recording released Aug. 16 claiming Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is still alive is believed to be authentic, dispelling rumors of his death and refuting Chad President Idriss Deby's claim to have "decapitated" the group.

    "It is indeed all over the global media of infidels that I am dead or that I am sick and incapacitated and have lost influence in the affairs of religion," Shekau said in an eight-minute Hausa-language message, the French news agency AFP ("Agence ... Read More

  • Love & not fear of Muslims urged by SBTS prof

    by Andrew J.W. Smith, posted Monday, August 17, 2015 (9 years ago)

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Ayman Ibrahim wants more American evangelicals to reshape the way they think about their Muslim neighbors. He says that starts with not being afraid of them.

    "Among Westerners in general, there is a sort of phobia about Muslims," said Ibrahim, the newly appointed assistant professor of Islamic studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. "But Islam is not monolithic. To say, 'Islam is ISIS,' is very naive." Read More

  • BP Ledger, Aug. 17, 2014
    by Staff, posted Monday, August 17, 2015 (9 years ago)

    Today's BP Ledger contains items from: God's Courtroom; WORLD News Service;

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