08.08.12: Baptist candidate loses race

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August 8, 2012 · Issue 12-152

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NEWS

David Goatley

The Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention will launch a new pastors' network to encourage ministerial self-care and share leading-edge ministry models at the group's 115th annual session Aug. 13-17 in New Orleans. [Read story]

Baptist-Pentecostal talks postponed

Formal dialogue between Baptists and Pentecostals scheduled this week has been postponed due to unexpected personnel changes at the venue and the unavailability of some participants, leaders of both groups announced Aug. 8. [Read story]

Judy Baker

Baptist candidate loses race

A Missouri Baptist minister's wife and seminary graduate finished second in a crowded field of six Democrats running for lieutenant governor in statewide primary elections Aug. 7. [Read story]

More news:

-- Steve Graham elected to lead Oklahoma CBF

-- Baptists stand with Sikhs after shootings

-- Pastors boycott publisher over Jefferson biography

THINKING THEOLOGICALLY -- by Molly T. Marshall

Claiming our rightful place
Could 2012 be the "year of women" in church life? [Read column]

COMMENTARY

Jimmy Gawne

Running on fumes

A progressive Christian and environmentalist says NASCAR needn't be a guilty pleasure for the socially conscious. [Read commentary]

SEEKING THE KINGDOM -- by David Gushee

Reflections on a summer away

A summer of travel, dialogue and prayer nurtures concerns and hopes in interfaith movements, missions needs and CBF's future. [Read column]

FEATURE

Don't count out the church organ just yet, say experts

There are times, Shaun King says, when worship music should be energetic, light or joyful. That's when instruments like pianos, drums and guitars do the trick. But then there are times when the sound needs to be "bigger and in your face," said the senior pastor of College Park Baptist Church in Orlando. And that's when you need an organ. [Read story]

NEW VOICE FEATURE

Union University student Sara Shaw teaches at Evans Elementary School as part of the Memphis Teacher Residency program. (PHOTO/Union University)

Education 'today's civil-rights issue'

A new kind of "school choice" agenda is gaining ground as more and more young adults - including Christians concerned about social justice - choose teaching in public schools over more lucrative and less challenging careers. [Read story]

Read related New Voice story:

-- Churches aid learning with food

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WORTH REPEATING

"Not only will corporate boardrooms, Congress and seminaries get 'smarter' and more holistic in their initiatives as women populate them, but the church will flourish when all whom God is calling are accepted as providential gifts."

-- Seminary president Molly T. Marshall in her latest Thinking Theologically column