Wednesday, June 17, 2020

• African American leaders call for Southern Baptists to stand together in unity

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Wednesday, June 17, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Calling the racial unrest roiling the nation "spiritual warfare," and saying "unless hearts change, nothing will change in America," Philadelphia pastor K. Marshall Williams urged Southern Baptists to stand together in unity against injustice.

  "The world is waiting for us to come together," said Williams, senior pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church of Philadelphia. "Because Beloved, truth be told, this is just a dress rehearsal for when we get around the throne. I think maybe God is stripping us. I don't know about you, but this has been a stripping time for me, a pruning time for me, a time in the refiner's fire, that God would see what He really has as far as the church of the Lord Jesus Christ."v Read More

• Gospel spreads among truck drivers in West Africa

  by Stella McMillian, posted Wednesday, June 17, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  IMB photo

  WEST AFRICA (BP) -- In West Africa, truck driving is a dangerous and stressful job. Drivers face job insecurity, the threat of being robbed, extortion from corrupt policemen, and cultural and linguistic barriers as they cross borders taking imports from the coast to landlocked countries farther east.

  So when Christians offered to pray for Ahmed* one day as he prepared to leave the port and transport his next load, he didn't mind, even though he was Muslim. As he continued on his route, he was amazed that the police never harassed him, just as the Christians had prayed. Read More

• FROM THE SEMINARIES: SEBTS women's livestream, alumni livestream; Spurgeon College 'gap year' alternative

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, June 17, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  SEBTS women's livestream focuses on practicing theology amid brokenness; SEBTS celebrates God's faithfulness in Alumni & Friends Livestream; Spurgeon College's Fusion offers alternative for 'gap year.' Read More

• Five years after shooting, Emanuel uneasily adapts as pilgrimage site

  by Matthew J. Cressler, posted Wednesday, June 17, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  AP file photo by David Goldman, June 2015

  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP/RNS) -- Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church to livestream its services, visitors to "the Holy City," as Charleston is sometimes called, could often be spotted wandering outside, taking photos of the façade. Worship on a given Sunday might include people from across the U.S. and some foreign countries. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: What's next?

  by Manley Beasley Jr., posted Wednesday, June 17, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Though the times are strange, the way to get through them remains the same, Manley Beasley says. 'We need to preach the Word; prepared and fully expecting God's Word to be effective, producing conviction, correction, and comfort.' Read More

• Corte Suprema falla a favor de los derechos gays y transexuales

  Por Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, June 17, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Foto de la Suprema Corte

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- La Corte Suprema de EE.UU. emitió una decisión crucial hoy (15 de junio) sobre los derechos de los gays y transexuales que resultó en protecciones de larga duración y sin discriminación a la cobertura legal en el lugar de trabajo por la "orientación sexual" y la "identidad de género."

  Los jueces dictaminaron en una decisión 6-3 que la categoría "sexo" en el Título VII de la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964 se aplica a los empleados homosexuales y transexuales. El presidente del tribunal supremo John Roberts y el juez Neil Gorsuch -- típicamente entre los miembros conservadores de la corte alta -- se unieron a la mayoría de los cuatro miembros ... Read More