BAPTIST PRESS:

Southern Baptist Convention - annual meetings:

• Young leader concerns among motions at SBC
• SBC leaders address Younger Leaders Summit II
• Joe McKeever, an artist-minister, a real draw at SBC
• Follow God unconditionally, Pastors' Conf. speakers urge
• Ala. pastor to lead SBC Pastors' Conference
• Motion to move Orlando convention referred to Executive Committee
• Seminary presidents affirm Southern Baptist doctrines
• Messengers agree to study Baptist Faith and Message
• Messengers defeat motion for straw poll on SBC name
• WRAP-UP: SBC messengers adopt motion to address nation's drug problem
• News from 1999 Southern Baptist Pastors Conference

Disaster relief:

• Ala. exec commends relief workers ‘who have come to our rescue’
• Churches braced for Ivan with disaster relief plans in place
• 1,200-plus Southern Baptist volunteers now responding with food & compassion in wake of hurricane crisis on Gulf Coast
• Disaster relief rooted in CP, associational missions
• Southern Baptists send steady flow of help after Dennis
• Food units, chainsaw crews move in to help with recovery

Postage & publications:

• State Baptist paper challenges postal hike linked to editorial
• Baptist papers can help churches save money and time in mailouts
• Baptist papers, church mailouts confronting high postal rate hike

Evangelicals & Mormons

• Speaker challenges Mormons over baptism for the dead

• Mormon president’s TV comments spark criticism by NAMB officials
• Key differences noted between Christian, Mormon doctrines

Christian education:

• Parents provided tips for education at home

• Speakers explore distinctives of Christian higher education

• Homeschooling strengthens values, Glorieta conference speakers say

• Prof debunks myths about homeschooling

• Parents can overcome challenges to homeschool, speakers say

• Faithful faculty called vital to Christian higher education

• Faith is extracurricular at Harvard, chaplain says

• Norm Sanju urges educators to dispel destructive 'myths'

Missions & evangelism

• Rankin addresses COSBE, focuses on Acts 1:8 mandate
• Evangelists adopt Acts 1:8 strategy
• Salvation offered ‘to the Jew first,’ speakers say
• Full-time evangelists called gift from God

• Scientist stirs missiologists to expand their future dreams

• Winter: Usual religious terms may become hindrance overseas

• New WMU book addresses training youth volunteers

• Volunteer's book unexpectedly dovetails with new WMU book

• Book surveys ethnic cultures to broaden witness in U.S.

Christians & culture

• Researchers outline value of surveys for churches

• 'Spiritual walls in America have crumbled,' Steve Gaines says in convention sermon
• Pastors' Conference speakers exhort Christians to stand firm
• Protests hit Grand Canyon book with creation science essays
• Grand Canyon bookstore reorders 300-plus copies of book
• Sekulow recounts discrimination, persecution facing Messianic Jews

Christians & money

• Trillions of dollars at stake in 60-plus generation's wills

• Experts predict: Many boomers to face bleak retirement years
• Ministers who have been audited say: Follow IRS rules carefull

• Baptist Faith & Message Committee members say report embraces biblical authority
• Speakers see Jewish role in end times, countering ‘two-covenant theology'
• Luke was Jewish, speaker tells Messianic fellowship
• Christians have obligation to Jews, Patterson says in New York City

• Prof's attack on Calvinism renews debate among Baptists

• History professor disputes Calvinism of early Baptists

• Georgia executive committee, Mercer weigh new relationship

• Disney-like methodology garners criticism at Founders meeting

• 'Limited atonement' among themes amplified at annual meeting

• Study Christian biographies, speaker urges today's faithful

• Scholar takes look at heresy and grace

Other

• Barna, Gallup execs review polling outcomes, methodology
• Pastors describe uses of cellular telephones
• Criteria for church membership in Fla. convention recounted

CHRISTIANITY TODAY:

• Denominational restructuring trims 200 agency positions
• To the Jew first? Southern Baptists defend new outreach effort
• No free cyber ride: Churches discover old rules apply to new technologies
• Inheritance windfall may bypass churches
• Calvinism resurging among SBC's young elites
• University independence sparks renewed tensions

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