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Story helps us understand why many young adults turned to Calvinism

The Baptist Standard ran a nice Religion News Service story getting at the new Calvinism that surfaced in recent decades. It’s a news peace, not a polemical one. It’s saying what is and has been, not what ought to be. I am not a Calvinist. It puts God in an Enlightenment theological box, but many of my Christian brothers and sisters have espoused it. This story helps point out why so many young…

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Many retreats have one person who casts a vision, and too often, few people come on board with this vision. However, this was not one of those retreats. | Baptist Standard

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In a unanimous vote, the Peruvian Congress passed a law that integrates foster care into the nation’s legal code. | Baptist Standard

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A ministry that began with a handful of men from the Church at Bee Cave working in a neighbor’s yard developed into a growing nonprofit organization in Austin. | Baptist Standard

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About a month before leaving the United States, I visited my parent’s house for a weekend. That was the first time my mom told me about my dad’s declining physical condition. | Baptist Standard

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Gus Reyes, director of affinity ministries and the Hispanic Education Initiative of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, was named director of the BGCT Christian Life Commission, effective Jan. 16.  | Baptist Standard

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Dozens of American groups, many of them evangelical Christians, have entered Thailand in recent years to fight the sex trade, which by some estimates generates 7 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. | Baptist Standard

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Valerie Carter, a longtime Baptist minister and social worker, will be recommended Feb. 8 to be the ninth executive of Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia—the first African-American to hold the post in the organization’s 140-year existence.  | Baptist Standard