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Former head of abuse panel blasts two Catholic cardinals

An Illinois Supreme Court justice who chaired a lay review board investigating the Catholic sex abuse scandal blasts the church and prominent cardinals in a new book, accusing them of dishonesty. Justice Anne M. Burke, who headed the National Review…

RIGHT OR WRONG

My husband and I are in our early 30s and have been married 11 years. We have no children because of my husband's infertility. Some friends have suggested his brother donate sperm so that I can get pregnant through in…

Diet-discipleship believers are convinced, ‘We are what we eat’

WASHINGTON (RNS) — When Marilyn Lorenz of Alma, Mich., talks about living out her faith in daily life, she starts by describing what's inside her refrigerator. The produce is grown on nearby farms, and the milk is organic and hormone-free….

FAITH DIGEST

Digital conservation of Dead Sea Scrolls started. Sixty years after their discovery, Israeli authorities have begun the process of conserving the Dead Sea Scrolls through digital technology. Israeli archaeologists said the project — now in its pilot stage — will…

Dellanna O’Brien, former WMU head, dies at 75

FRISCO, Texas (ABP) — Dellanna West O'Brien, who led the Southern Baptist Woman's Missionary Union through some of its most trying times, died Sept. 7 at age 75. She suffered what WMU officials described as “a massive cerebral bleed” Sept….

Association’s soccer tournament attracts 200 Lynchburg-area Latinos

LYNCHBURG — Nearly 200 Latinos from the Lynchburg area gathered the Saturday before Labor Day in the city's Peaks View Park for a soccer tournament and picnic sponsored by the Lynchburg Baptist Association. Lynchburg association director of missions Robert Putt…

International Mission Board appoints 83 missionaries

JONESBORO, Ga. (BP) — Monkeys, rope swings and alligators were all part of Adam Huser's life growing up as a missionary kid in the jungles of Peru. Adam sensed many years ago that being a missionary may be his calling…

Wyatts’ ministry among international broadens

ATLANTA — This is the stuff Kim and Marc Wyatt's ministry is made of — a peaceful night's sleep for a refugee finished running from violence and danger, the sound of fellowship as a Christian connects with a once lonely…

Latino Network youth ‘dive deeper’ in Hungary and Germany

‘I didn't know it would be such an amazing life experience for me.” The “it” that Jessie Tamayo referred to was a two-week summer adventure of international missions, dynamic worship and awesome fellowship made possible for 14 Latino youth, young…

Stanford leaves BWA to focus on pastoral work

WASHINGTON — Alan Stanford, director of mission advancement for the Baptist World Alliance, has left the position to fulfill a desire to return to full-time pastoral work. Stanford is pastor of First Baptist Church of Clarendon in Arlington. Stanford, who…

China visit opens dialog on religious freedom

ATLANTA — Dialogue and increased understanding were the results of the first leg of a 10-day, two-city tour by a delegation of Chinese religious leaders and their American counterparts that began in Atlanta Sept. 5. The delegation included the leaders…

FIRST HAND: Up close and personal in China

Even before the Beijing Olympics captured the world's attention in early August, some Virginia Baptists were experiencing China “up close and personal.” In early July, Lorrie Brooks of Westhampton Baptist Church in Richmond and Amy Abshire a recent graduate of…

Understanding Al Mohler’s case against women

BNG podcasts feature each SBC presidential candidate

What the church got wrong about queer people

Trump admin denies hunger strike at immigrant detention center