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Tuesday, June 02, 2020

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  • Racial healing, Great Commission, Cooperative Program headline SBC Advance
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Amid unprecedented challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as racial unrest and tumult after the recent death of an African American man in police custody, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee offered a healing balm Tuesday (June 2) with SBC Advance.

    The two-hour online event was not intended to replace the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting (originally scheduled June 9-10 in Orlando, but canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic), but instead to provide Southern Baptists the opportunity to hear how God has continued to work through the SBC. Read More

  • Cities erupt in more violence as Trump decries 'lowlifes'
    by Zeke Miller and Matt Sedensky, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

    Photo by Matt Slocum/AP
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned up the pressure on governors to quell the violence set off by the death of George Floyd, demanding New York call up the National Guard to stop the "lowlifes and losers."

    As cities around the U.S. witnessed a seventh consecutive night of both peaceful demonstrations and bursts of looting, vandalism and attacks on police – the attacks included multiple officers shot in several cities – the president amplified his calls of a day earlier, in which he threatened to send in the military to restore order if governors didn't do it. Read More

  • SBC trustee system stable in spite of Annual Meeting cancellation
    by David Roach/TEXAN, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) -- If history is any indication, the Southern Baptist Convention's trustee system will continue without a snag despite the cancellation of the 2020 SBC annual meeting due to COVID-19. The last annual meeting cancellations, during World War II, were followed by a boom of evangelism and discipleship resourced by the convention's entities.

    Still, the unique circumstances this year create some potential challenges for a convention reliant on annual trustee elections. Read More

  • IMB Student Team introduces Stateside Summer initiative

    by Caroline Anderson, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- The IMB Student Team's Stateside Summer initiative empowers students to reach the nations this summer without leaving the U.S. Students will participate in missions activities, learn about unreached and unengaged people groups, connect with missionaries and share the Gospel with their family, friends and in their communities. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: We must not be silent on racism
    by Ronnie Floyd, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

    These recent days in American life have truly been difficult, Ronnie Floyd says, listing the senseless death of George Floyd and the subsequent violence of a few. He calls Southern Baptists to commit to eradicate racism. Read More

  • EDITORIAL: No debemos guardar silencio sobre el racismo
    Por Ronnie Floyd, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Estos días recientes en la vida estadounidense han sido verdaderamente difíciles. Hemos sido testigos con nuestros propios ojos, en las calles de una de nuestras principales ciudades, de un hombre negro siendo asesinado lenta y cruelmente. Durante el transcurso de largos ocho minutos, George Floyd suplicó ayuda y misericordia al tiempo que un policía blanco presionaba su rodilla sobre el cuello del hombre negro mientras su cara era mantenida a la fuerza en el pavimento. El resultado final: George Floyd murió en una forma cruel, degradante e innecesaria.

    Esto le ha puesto combustible a una nación que ya estaba enojada por muchas cosas. ... Read More