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It is midnight. Not the kind of midnight measured by clocks. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that lingers long after the sun has risen. We all know this midnight. It is the midnight of the marriage...

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Religious charities gain in a down year

Religious organizations reported a 5.5 increase in donations last year, a marked contrast from the nationwide 2-percent decline in charitable giving, according to a study by Giving USA Foundation. Religious congregations, which accounted for 35 percent of the total $307…

Megachurches attract many under 45

Megachurches are most attractive to younger adults, and almost all who arrive at their sanctuaries have darkened a church’s door before, a new survey shows. The study by Leadership Network and Hartford Institute for Religion Research, released June 9 found…

Missouri Baptist layman takes on emergent movement

WINFIELD, Mo. (ABP) — Thirty years  after the Southern Baptist Convention began ridding itself of theological  moderates and liberals, a prominent Missouri Baptist layman is warning  that the nation’s largest non-Catholic faith group now faces a different  kind of liberalism…

BAPTIST BRIEFS

Baptist Women in Ministry director named. Pam Durso of Atlanta has been hired as the new full-time executive director for Baptist Women in Ministry.  Durso, currently associate executive director-treasurer of the Baptist History & Heritage Society, will begin her duties…

Study of SBC restructuring unnecessary, Chapman asserts

NASHVILLE — A proposal to study a restructuring of the Southern Baptist Convention is not needed, SBC Executive Committee President Morris Chapman insists. Chapman made his feelings known about a proposed Great Commission Resurgence Declaration, issued in late April by…

FAITH DIGEST

Christianity Today cuts back. Christianity Today International, citing hard times in the publishing industry, is shutting down four publications and laying off 31 workers. Two magazines will fold later this year — Today’s Christian Woman and the Campus Life College…

Ministers seek investigation into police shootings

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Black Baptist preachers in Jacksonville, Fla., are calling for an independent investigation into a rash of recent shootings by police.   Family members said Kiko Battle, fatally shot by police, wanted to be a barber. The…