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Southern Seminary celebrates 150 years, other schools report progress

July 2, 2009

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) flagship seminary, celebrated its 150th anniversary as part of this year’s SBC annual meeting, held in

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Alabamians come out for Crossover ’09

July 2, 2009

Alabama Baptists Norman and Dee Rich haven’t missed one Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Crossover since the first one in 1989 in Las Vegas. Celebrating 20

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Wellness retreat for hurting ministers

July 2, 2009

A wellness retreat for hurting ministers and their spouses will be held July 6–10 at Samford University in Birmingham. The retreat is sponsored by the

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Messengers re-elect Hunt, adopt budget

July 2, 2009

Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) messengers re-elected Johnny Hunt as president, adopted a $204,385,592.63 budget and voted to discontinue the convention relationship with a Texas church

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State paper provides community, ministry ideas, window to world

July 2, 2009

When Bethany Akridge was growing up, The Alabama Baptist newspaper was always laying around the house. But it wasn’t until college that she picked one

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Shortfalls cut missionary force; Rankin notes lost opportunities

July 2, 2009

The lack of sufficient funding to support missionaries may not be an economic problem but a problem of “hearts that aren’t aligned with the Lord’s

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Platt, others challenge SBC to ‘LoveLoud’

July 2, 2009

I am at a crisis of belief.” This is what David Platt, pastor of The Church at Brook Hills, Birmingham, told messengers to the Southern

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St. Clair’s Chandler new DOM editor

July 2, 2009

Ben Chandler, director of missions (DOM) for St. Clair Baptist Association, was named editor of “DOM Viewpoint” during the national DOM meeting June 21–22 in

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