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Men-only gyms seek to protect Christian men from lust

White conservative Christian men are rising up all over the nation to take their place at the top of their families, churches and communities. We’re witnessing their rise to power through the Rededicate 250 events where men like Mark Driscoll called on...

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Gen. McChrystal and the power of words

By Jim Denison President Obama looked “uncomfortable and intimidated” in his first meeting with military leaders after taking office, according to Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The general was even less impressed with Vice President Biden’s opposition to his Afghanistan strategy: “Are…

CBF workshop explores homosexuality

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) – Fifteen years after the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship adopted an organizational value prohibiting the funding of organizations that affirm practicing homosexuals, a large crowd packed a workshop June 25 on what it means to be the “presence…

CBF workshop explores church’s response to homosexuality

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) – Ten years after the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship adopted an organizational value prohibiting the funding of organizations that affirm practicing homosexuals and prohibiting it from employing gays, a large crowd packed a CBF General Assembly workshop June…

CBF to evaluate structure, funding in two-year study

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — Facing chronic budget shortfalls, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship moderator Hal Bass has appointed a 14-member task force to study the organization’s missional and organizational future. The task force, emerging from consensus during a recent gathering of leaders…

Stray bullets

By David Wilkinson What goes up must come down. As our family recently discovered, that includes a .40-caliber bullet. Our daughter Meredith, driving a car she had borrowed from a cousin for a month-long summer job, was preparing to return…

CBF to evaluate structure, funding in two-year study

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — Facing a chronic budget shortfall, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship moderator Hal Bass has appointed a 14-member task force to study the organization’s missional and organizational future. The task force, emerging from consensus during a recent gathering of…

Historian urges CBF to reclaim ‘audacious identity’

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) –Historian Bill Leonard encouraged fellow Baptists to “get over” being embarrassed by their denomination’s often-negative image and instead celebrate their lineage in an “audacious identity” established by their forebears. Leonard, founding dean of Wake Forest University Divinity…