ASHEVILLE, N.C. – LifeWay Christian Resources trustees approved a 2017 budget, and heard progress reports on LifeWay’s new headquarters during their board meeting Aug. 29-30 at Ridgecrest Conference Center near Asheville, N.C. An artist’s final rendering of LifeWay’s new home in downtown Nashville. The building should be ready to occupy in 2017. LifeWay President and CEO Thom S. Rainer told trustees, “I can honestly say LifeWay’s future is brighter than ever.” “I could not be more proud … [Read more...]
Missouri’s chaplains lend a hand – and an ear
BATON ROUGE, La. – It’s not as glamorous as wielding a chainsaw or cranking through a few thousand meals a day, but chaplains are playing a role in Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief (DR) as volunteers bring help, hope and healing to Louisiana flood victims. Tony Lee, a volunteer chaplain from First Baptist Church, Salisbury, worked alongside a crew doing mud out and debris removal. Like all DR chaplains, Lee was responsible not only for listening to the homeowner, but also for observing and … [Read more...]
God is still in our schools
Watching sand pass through an hourglass always captivated me as a child. It seemed as though the mass of sand would never pass through the bottleneck, but in quick order the final grains fell. There is a bottleneck where nearly every person over the next 20 years will pass. The church could surround this bottleneck and change communities and impact every life in across the nation over a few decades. Some churches have realized the great strategic value and have already gotten started. The … [Read more...]
Atheists object to Mizzou’s chaplains, prayers
COLUMBIA – Atheists with the Madison-Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) are renewing their objection to the University of Missouri’s football chaplaincy. FFRF initially contacted Mizzou in August of last year to complain about its chaplaincy program. The university replied that it had no intention of changing its program. The university’s response contended that Mizzou’s football chaplaincy is acceptable because it is voluntary. The chaplaincy includes “access to a … [Read more...]
Baptist students, 450 strong, aid flood survivors
DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (BP) – John Whitehead woke to an unfamiliar sight in mid-August – water had breached his house and was rising fast. The Louisiana State University student panicked for a few minutes, facing tough decisions. What should he save and what should he leave behind? In the end, the answer was simple. Muddy water lapped against his waist as he struggled to heave his black Labrador retriever Rascal into his kayak. Then, he paddled away from everything he and his family owned in … [Read more...]
Flood rescue transcended race, age, disability
EAST BATON ROUGE, La. (BP) – Mary Cupit, 81, awoke to banging on her bedroom window during the early hours as Chad Tyrone, a new neighbor, knocked frantically to warn of encroaching floodwater. By the time Mary roused her caregiver – her deaf brother Donald Cupit, 73 – he only had time to throw on some clothes and grab his wallet and keys before helping his sister into a waiting car filled with neighbors they barely knew in East Baton Rouge. The drive to safety took them to Tyrone’s … [Read more...]
Pro-gay ‘shame list’ features HLGU, SBU, MBTS
NASHVILLE (BP) – Nearly a third of the 102 institutions of higher education on a pro-homosexual activist group’s list of “the absolute worst colleges for [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] youth” have Southern Baptist ties – including Missouri’s own Hannibal-LaGrange University, Southwest Baptist University and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. All schools on the list, which was published Aug. 29 by the college-focused organization Campus Pride, have a religious affiliation, with … [Read more...]
First Amendment rights are under attack
If you feel like your government has made you a target for exercising your First Amendment rights (specifically freedom of speech and religion), you now have good reason. The demonizing of conservative Christians is spreading in numbers and intensifying in its vitriolic rants. Lest you think Missouri will escape such behavior, think again. In recent days a top Obama administration official and Hillary Clinton, the Democrat nominee for president, both attacked people who oppose same-sex … [Read more...]
9/11 called catalyst for missions to Muslims
NEW YORK (BP) – When radical Islamic terrorists brought down the World Trade Center's Twin Towers 15 years ago, they didn't realize their actions would also help bring down walls to reaching Muslims with the Gospel. But that's exactly what happened. In the years since Sept. 11, 2001, the number of Unengaged, Muslim Unreached People Groups (UMUPGs) in the world has decreased by nearly 20 percent, from 1,333 in 2001 to 1,077 today, according to statistics provided by Vision 5:9, a … [Read more...]
DR volunteer dies while serving in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. (BP) -- Working as part of his church's disaster relief team, Sonny Ellis died while doing what he did best -- serving people. "He was showing the people of Denham Springs, La., an example of what Jesus would do," said Roy Hill, pastor of First Baptist Church in Satsuma, Ala.. On Sept. 1, Ellis had just placed a load of laundry in a washing machine with his church's disaster relief laundry unit, which was in operation helping flood survivors of the historic flooding … [Read more...]
Target’s bathroom fix falls short, boycotters say
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (BP) – Target’s $20 million plan to add single-stall bathrooms in its U.S. stores does not fix its policy allowing bathroom and dressing room use based on gender identity, the leader of a national boycott against the company said. Target announced Aug. 17 the timeline and cost of its plan to install the locking, single-toilet bathrooms for customers who feel uncomfortable using the bathroom with those who identify as transgendered. Details of the plan came the same day … [Read more...]
America’s demographic winter
Is America heading for a demographic cold snap? The fertility forecast is gloomy these days. We’ve talked before on BreakPoint about the fertility crisis facing China, Japan, and much of Europe—all of which face what has been called a “demographic winter.” Until recently, the United States has been an exception to this distressing trend, but this seems no longer the case. To understand why, here’s a primer. Demographers use two numbers to measure fertility rates: the average number of … [Read more...]
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