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OUT LOUD

“We're here to show Christ's love, be servants and witness to the lost using chainsaws as our tools to open doors.” Steve Cabler The member of First Baptist Church in Bartlesville, Okla., was part of a disaster relief team working…

Megachurches are growing, but in different ways

Megachurches — known for their big buildings, big schools and big crowds — continue to grow, but a new study detects shifts in the way they are expanding. “The general growth pattern is that about 90 percent of megachurches report…

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…

Metaxas calls Bonhoeffer’s relatives ‘Jew-hating lunatics’

North Carolina pastor abruptly forced out of prominent pulpit

Responding to the militarization of immigration policy

Meddling with Methodism and domesticating the Baptists