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CBF adopts budget, acknowledges ‘difficult fiscal year’

HOUSTON (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellow-ship adopted a $16.15 million budget but will begin the 2009-2010 fiscal year spending at 80 percent of projected income, anticipating continued reduced giving due to the economy. “It will come as no surprise…

Young pastors urge CBF supporters to ‘embrace the world’

HOUSTON (ABP) — Participants at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly heard a visceral call to embrace the world — and all their neighbors — in worship. Taylor Sandlin, pastor of Southland Baptist Church in San Angelo, Texas, helps participants…

FAITH DIGEST

German Muslims more numerous than suspected. Germany has nearly a million more Muslims than previous estimates, a new study showed. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Germany concluded up to 4.3 million people — 5 percent of Germany’s…

Report: One-third of scientists believe in God

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Only a third of scientists say they believe in God, according to a new survey, and while 18 percent believe in a high power, four in 10 scientists believe in neither. The report was released July 9…

Domestic missionaries seeking new converts online

ORLANDO, Fla. — For centuries, missionaries have ventured to the farthest reaches of the globe to share the gospel. Today, the new mission field is just a mouse click away. Some 2 million surfers a day type keywords like “God”…

Shuttered stores find new life as churches

HUNTLEY, Ill. (RNS) — At Prime Outlets in Huntley, Ill., a former fine china store will become the home of Christian Life Church. “This provided an opportunity, from moving from being kind of a homeless church, if you will, to…

RIGHT OR WRONG?

How can I share my Christian faith with my Muslim neighbor without offending him? If Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan today in America, he probably would tell the parable of the Good Muslim. The same types of…

OUT LOUD

“The relationships that are being built mean everything. … When an evangelical Christian gets to know a Muslim, the whole defense of Islam has stepped up to a higher level because … you’re no longer talking about a religion. You’re…

VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Quotes evoke comments

I comment on statements on four pages in the issue of July 2. Page 5: “What if another religion becomes the majority?” I assert that other religions have already become the majority: the worships of money, power, pleasure, status, possessions….

SECOND OPINION: Fifty years as a pastor

April 20, 2010, will be a significant day in my life. It will mark the 50th anniversary of my ordination. Since January 1960 I have spent most of my days as a pastor. In September of 1974 I began my…

HERITAGE: The rabbit trap

In 1915 Frederic W. Boatwright was the busy president of the University of Richmond (although at the time the school was still known as Richmond College). He had just lived through the first academic year of the school’s relocation from…

Virginia musician chosen to lead hymn society

RICHMOND (ABP) — A Baptist woman has been tapped to head an organization of church leaders and artists dedicated to preserving the congregational singing of hymns. Deborah Carlton Loftis, visiting professor of church music at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond,…

What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

The way we were

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear