Baptist Press Archive

Monday, November 17, 2014

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  • Alaska Baptists surge in church planting
    by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, November 17, 2014 (9 years ago)

    Photo courtesy True North Church
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (BP) -- Jason Storter had no interest in church when his wife Mariah asked him to join her at a new Anchorage church plant.

    An avowed atheist, Storter told Brent Williams, pastor of True North Church, he was only attending to make his wife happy. Read More

  • Moore: pope voices 'strong' statement on marriage
    by Staff, posted Monday, November 17, 2014 (9 years ago)

    VATICAN CITY (BP) -- Southern Baptists' lead ethicist has affirmed "a strong statement" by Pope Francis on traditional marriage during the pontiff's opening address at the Vatican colloquium on "the complementarity of man and woman in marriage."

    "Pope Francis made clear that male/female complementarity is essential to marriage, and that this cannot be redefined by ideology or by the state," Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, told Baptist Press in written comments from the Vatican. Read More

  • 13 women die in India sterilizations
    by Courtney Crandell/WORLD News Service, posted Monday, November 17, 2014 (9 years ago)

    INDIA (BP) -- At least 13 women died in India and dozens became ill after undergoing sterilization procedures as a part of a nationwide population control program, government officials have acknowledged in news reports.

    Eighty-three women underwent the surgery Saturday, Nov. 8, at a hospital in the state of Chhattisgarh, one of the poorest in India. Read More

  • Ala. Baptists affirm BF&M 2000
    by Jennifer Davis Rash/Alabama Baptist, posted Monday, November 17, 2014 (9 years ago)

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Budgetary adjustments, the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 and three contested state convention officer races captured headlines for the annual meeting of the Alabama Baptist State Convention at Lakeside Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 11–12. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: '50 Shades' & its best-kept secret
    by Katie McCoy, posted Monday, November 17, 2014 (9 years ago)

    FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- We used to blush about it. It was the kind of thing that women kept quiet about. It was personal -- too personal -- and not at all "ladylike." Read More