Thursday, October 29, 2015

• Study spotlights divorce among churchgoers

  by Lisa Cannon Green, posted Thursday, October 29, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Before a divorce, churchgoers in troubled marriages look a lot like their happily married counterparts at church --participating, serving and leading at similar rates, a new study shows.

  After a divorce, the differences can be stark. Twenty percent have dropped out of church entirely. In many cases, their children ... Read More

• Left intolerant of religion, panelists agree

  by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, October 29, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Doug Carlson 

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Liberal intolerance is suppressing freedom of belief and conscience in the United States, religious and secular panelists agreed in a discussion at Georgetown University.

  Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), joined in the conversation Oct. 27 at the country's oldest Roman Catholic university on how "illiberal liberalism" is affecting the free exercise of religion. Read More

• EC members heed call to increase CP for IMB

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, October 29, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Morris Abernathy.

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Since adopting a resolution in September pledging to "encourage and lead" their churches to "give more than ever before through the Cooperative Program," at least 17 of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee's 79 members have already recommended increases in CP giving at the churches where they are members. The proposed increases are intended to help the International Mission Board amid revenue shortages. Read More

• Students, volunteers help save housing complex

  by Laura Sikes, posted Thursday, October 29, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  NAMB photo by Laura Sikes

  SUMMERTON, S.C. (BP) -- Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers working in Summerton, S.C., last week helped save the area's only affordable housing community from permanent closure. The apartment complex took on more than two feet of flood water during historic flooding in the region Oct. 4.

  Meadowfield Apartments sits on west side of Summerton, a small community north of Lake Marion. Most of the area was flooded ... Read More

• Baptists to highlight SBDR volunteers Nov. 1

  by Tobin Perry, posted Thursday, October 29, 2015 (8 years ago)

  OSO, Wash. (BP) -- When disasters strike, communities change in an instant. Pastor Gary Ray saw that firsthand a year and a half ago when a mudslide devastated the town of Oso, Wash., the small northwestern community he called home.

  "The scale of the disaster was pretty significant," Ray, who was pastor of Oso Community Chapel in nearby Arlington at the time, said. "It was one of the presidentially declared national disasters ... Read More

• Bible Study: Nov. 1, 2015

  by staff/LifeWay Christian Resources, posted Thursday, October 29, 2015 (8 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult Publishing team, LifeWay publishes Sunday School curricula and additional resources for all age groups.

  This week's Bible study is adapted from The Gospel Project curriculum. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Pastor's wife, be real!

  by Amy Hebert, posted Thursday, October 29, 2015 (8 years ago)

  Amy Hebert encourages pastors' wives -- when they're asked, "How are you?" -- to break from "the epidemic of being 'fine'" and from "the lie that if anyone knew our true humanity and all of its nagging sin nature, we would be ostracized." Read More