Baptist Press Archive

Monday, October 13, 2014

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  • 'The Islamic spectrum': from radical to moderate
    by David Roach, posted Monday, October 13, 2014 (9 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- A range of news items from ISIS beheadings to Muslims buying Christian church buildings illustrate the "competing streams" within Islam and the divergent theology of moderate and radical Muslims. Read More

  • Church planting in Boston highlights need

    by Adam Miller, posted Monday, October 13, 2014 (9 years ago)

    NAMB photo by John Swain
    BOSTON (BP) -- In a meeting room at Boston's Fenway Park, Southern Baptist church planter and Boston Red Sox chaplain Bland Mason explained how much members of his church, City On A Hill church, long for community. Read More

  • Vatican report on homosexuals 'stunning change'

    by Tom Strode, posted Monday, October 13, 2014 (9 years ago)

    "The church is not itself, though, to be made up of unrepentant people."

    -- Russell D. Moore

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- A Vatican report issued Monday (Oct. 13) demonstrates what observers described as a dramatic shift -- even an "earthquake" -- regarding homosexuals, asking if the Roman Catholic Church can value "their sexual orientation, without compromising" its teachings. Read More

  • Church's wedding vote stirs KBC opposition
    by Kentucky Baptist Convention, posted Monday, October 13, 2014 (9 years ago)

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- A Kentucky Baptist Convention committee has voted to recommend severing ties with a Louisville congregation that voted to ordain people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and to perform same-sex marriages. Read More

  • Help Ebola victims, Baptist pastor urges
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, October 13, 2014 (9 years ago)

    Photo submitted by Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
    HERNDON, Va. (BP) -- Southern Baptists should respond to the Ebola crisis in West Africa with the same urgency expended during natural disasters at home and abroad, James Graham, pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Herndon, Va., told Baptist Press.

    Southern Baptists have been known for years for our "ability to respond to disasters, whether it's a hurricane disaster, tornadoes in Alabama, or those other things that have taken place across this country," Graham said. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Peace that passes understanding
    by David Jeremiah, posted Monday, October 13, 2014 (9 years ago)

    California pastor David Jeremiah examines Philippians 4:9 -- "a 24-word solution to 24-hour anxiety" in the Bible that teaches how God's peace overcomes uncertainty, worry and anxiety. Read More