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Amid Minot flooding, Dakota baptists embrace ‘huge undertaking’

Amid North Dakota’s battles with rivers swollen by heavy rains and snowmelt, Southern Baptists’ footholds in Minot and Bismarck are finding traction for their witness.

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Agency looking for a few (million) good men

The average Protestant church has 39 percent men and 61 percent women, according to a study of congregations in the United States. No one believes we have too many women, but many congregations want to find ways to reach the 69 million men who don’t attend any church.

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Worldwide ministry

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While some churches have two different departments relating to

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Truth-tellers

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Do you always get honesty from you staff? You would like to think that you do, but how do you really know? If a problem arises and you ask two different people how it happened and you get different answers, someone’s not being a truth-teller

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NBC nixes ‘Under God’ from pledge

NBC omitted the phrase “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance during an opening video in its coverage of the U.S. Open golf tournament June 19 and then apologized on-air apparently after receiving criticism.

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Trial of lesbian elder gets under way

For the seventh time in 20 years, The United Methodist Church will wrestle with the issue of homosexuality in a public church trial.

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SBC Convention spotlights ethnicity, unity and unengaged

Southern Baptist Convention messengers meeting in Phoenix June 14-15 adopted an historic report encouraging ethnic diversity, witnessed dozens of leaders standing together in support of a landmark unity pledge, and saw hundreds of pastors and laypeople volunteer to lead their churches to embrace one of the world’s 3,800 unengaged people groups.

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David C Cook acquires Integrity Music

Effective June 1, 2011, David C Cook and Integrity Media reached an agreement whereby Integrity Music became part of the David C Cook family.

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SBC report shows decline in baptisms; increase in churches

The number of baptisms in the Southern Baptist Convention in 2010 fell by nearly 5 percent, according to the Annual Church Profile (ACP) compiled by LifeWay Christian Resources in cooperation with Baptist state conventions.

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Coverage from Phoenix SBC Annual Meeting

If you want real-time coverage of the Tuesday and Wednesday annual meeting, visit these Baptist Press sites

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