Monday, September 26, 2016

• Evangelical leaders gather for 'solemn assembly'

  by Marc Ira Hooks, posted Monday, September 26, 2016 (5 years ago)

  

  DALLAS (BP) -- Some of the nation's most recognizable evangelical leaders are rolling out a three-pronged plan designed to call Christians, across denominational and racial lines, to a new age of spiritual awakening.

  Nearly a dozen pastors and teachers stood shoulder to shoulder in Dallas Sept. 21 for The Gathering 2016 at GateWay Church, a non-denominationl congregation, where several thousand assembled for "'a national solemn assembly"' -- the initial step in their plan. Read More

• 'Pockets of lostness' become conf. training ground

  by Harper McKay, posted Monday, September 26, 2016 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo by Maria Estes

  WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) -- Evangelism and disciple-making training was put into immediate practice during a three-day GO Engage conference at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

  The conference's interactive training sessions and field practicum, capped at 100 participants at the campus in Wake Forest, N.C., was attended by seminary students, members of local churches and from as far away as Delaware and the Czech Republic. Read More

• Motherless, designer baby specter increases

  by David Roach, posted Monday, September 26, 2016 (5 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Two developing reproductive technologies -- one that could facilitate motherless babies and another that could open the door to so-called designer babies -- have drawn warnings from Christian ethicists.

  In one experiment, researchers at the UK's University of Bath altered unfertilized mouse eggs so they took on properties like "ordinary" cells, such as skin cells, the BBC reported. Then they created mouse embryos by fertilizing the altered eggs with sperm cells, leading scientists to speculate that two human men, or even one man, may one day be able to conceive a child with similar technology using sperm and another donated body cell. Read More

• Navy to train sailors on transgender acceptance

  by Michael Cochrane/WORLD News Service, posted Monday, September 26, 2016 (5 years ago)

  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- The U.S. Navy has announced its plan for training all personnel on the Pentagon's new policy allowing transgender service members to serve openly.

  The announcement, delivered by Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke, outlines the service's strategy to prepare both senior leaders and rank-and-file sailors for the changes, according to Military.com. Read More

• Stop raunchy Kraft Heinz ads, moms' group urges

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, September 26, 2016 (5 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Two television commercials using graphic and raunchy sexual innuendo to sell frozen food dinners are inappropriate for family viewing and should be discontinued, One Million Moms is urging the Kraft Heinz Company.

  In protesting the Devour microwave meal ads that have become more visible this football season, One Million Moms Director Monica Cole said Kraft Heinz has gone too far and likely will lose loyal, conservative customers. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Mindsets, ideologies & truth

  by Ronnie Floyd, posted Monday, September 26, 2016 (5 years ago)

  SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) -- The collision of mindsets and ideologies in America is real. Regardless of what our nation experiences or discusses, these varying mindsets and ideologies surface and collide.

  Some say this ongoing collision of mindsets and ideologies will lead us to eventually implode. Read More