Friday, September 21, 2018

• ANALYSIS: Venezuela planters see opportunity amid crisis

  by Karen Pearce, posted Friday, September 21, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  BOGOTA, Colombia (BP) -- As I meandered through a craft market in Bogota, Colombia, I struck up a conversation with a vendor who asked why I was visiting his country. I had just returned from four days in Cúcuta, the Colombian-Venezuelan border town where I witnessed the sad pilgrimage of thousands of people leaving Venezuela out of desperation and hunger.

  When I shared that with him, his face contorted into a mask of grief.

  "It is so horrible what is happening," he said, "They are our brothers." Read More

• LifeWay workers 'fine' after bullet destroys window

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, September 21, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- "Employees are fine" a day after a bullet destroyed a fifth-floor window at LifeWay Christian Resources' downtown Nashville complex, company spokesperson Carol Pipes told Baptist Press.

  "We're just really thankful no one was hurt," said Pipes, LifeWay director of corporate communications, who noted police are investigating the incident. The window, destroyed by the shot, is nearly level to nearby Interstates 40 and 65.

  LifeWay President Thom Rainer praised employees today (Sept. 21) for their response to the event. Read More

• Greear's Sexual Abuse Advisory Study underway

  by David Roach, posted Friday, September 21, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

  Photo by Morris Abernathy

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear's Sexual Abuse Advisory Study is now "actively involved" in phase one of its two-year process, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission announced Sept. 19 following appropriation of $250,000 for the study by the SBC Executive Committee.

  The study will receive the first $250,000 of overage for the 2017-2018 Cooperative Program Allocation Budget, according to a Sept. 18 EC vote. Expenditures for the study will be administered by the ERLC, a partner with Greear in the initiative, and reimbursed by the EC on a quarterly basis. Read More

• Rainer, at MBTS, assesses SBC & church transition

  by T. Patrick Hudson, posted Friday, September 21, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) -- Hopefulness for the future of the Southern Baptist Convention in a season of denominational transition was voiced by Thom Rainer, president of LifeWay Christian Resources, in a discussion Sept. 19 with Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

  Titled "The State of the SBC," the discussion during Midwestern's chapel hour focused on the many significant changes facing the denomination. Among these is the need to fill four entity leadership positions within the SBC and to address a generational transition as well. Read More

• SBC DIGEST: FBC Woodstock looks to Morton as Hunt's successor; LifeWay stores welcome Proverbs 31 Ministries and Passion

  by Christian Index, LifeWay & BP Staff, posted Friday, September 21, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

  In today's SBC Digest: FBC Woodstock looks to Jeremy Morton as Johnny Hunt's successor; LifeWay Christian Stores welcome Proverbs 31 Ministries and Passion. Read More

• EDITORIAL: ¿Amoldarnos o qué?

  by Oscar J. Fernandez , posted Friday, September 21, 2018 (4 years ago)

  El filósofo cubano Don José de la Luz y Caballero escribió: "A la vejez le gusta contar la historia; a la niñez le gusta oír la historia; y a la juventud le gusta hacer la historia". ... Read More