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As new year tolls, ABP/Religious Herald merger launches new media platform

By Robert Dilday After months of preparation, the merger between Associated Baptist Press and the Religious Herald took effect yesterday, launching a new digital and print media platform aimed at enhancing the mission and heritage of both organizations. Legal processes to create…

2013: The year in deaths

Dan Ariail, pastor emeritus of Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., where thousands of visitors attend Sunday worship and Bible studies by President Jimmy Carter each year, died Nov. 25 in hospice care. He was 75. Justice Anderson, 83, longtime…

2013: The year in quotes

“For some reason, in our immaturity, the assumption always is that our Christianity is the standard and our Baptist Christianity is the standard. And, of course, it’s not.” (Kathe Traynham) “No one outside the tribe is going to celebrate these…

the warmth of the family

before Christmas there is a lot of shopping going on

but also a community feast when we try to welcome the lonely people or immigrants and be family for them. We may eat together

which is massively and culturally a Catholic country

but it is typical of thousands of American homes. We can either accept and affirm them

legalisms

SBC leaders should be encouraging churches to help families find a loving relationship with Christ despite changes affecting family circumstances

in our own time we see the family attacked on a number of fronts. Too many Southern Baptists have embraced unbiblical notions about marriage and family. Too often we believe that children are a burden rather than a blessing and smaller families are more

we are all for families. But do the authors overstep in encouraging Southern Baptists to have big families?

one sees how wistfully the authors wish for the past even as they accuse the SBC organizational leaders of not acknowledging the cultural changes around them.