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  • Wednesday July 02, 2008

Lifestyle choices tipping scales toward obesity

Posted By jameson at Editor's Journal

Chronic illness resulting from self destructive life choices has prompted a national health emergency. We're fat and getting fatter. Heart problems, obesity and diabetes result from Americans' unwillingness to eat right and exercise. [Read More]

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  • Monday June 30, 2008

Selling 'For Sale' signs

Posted By jameson at Editor's Journal

A place at the beach used to be a dream. Now "for sale" signs prove the dream may be less palatable than the anticipation. Dream bigger. [Read More]

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  • Monday June 09, 2008

Wagner volunteers campaign for president

Posted at Editor's Journal By jameson

Bill Wagner is serious about winning the election Tuesday as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He has a dozen eager students and Olivet University workers volunteering in Indianapolis doing the "community organization" work of a real campaign. ...

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  • Tuesday May 06, 2008

As NC Baptist as It Gets?

Posted at The Way I Hear It By NCBaptistSuperman

What does it mean to be a North Carolina Baptist? Well there is a "technical definition" from the Convention. If you are a member of a participating Baptist church then you are a NC Baptist. That leads to a need to understand what it means to be a...

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  • Monday March 24, 2008

Black Florida Baptists right about boot camps

Posted at Simple Country Boy By admin

Last week, Florida's largest black Baptist organization reminded us of the death of Martin Lee Anderson, exhaustivelydocumented at Wikipedia , and of the evil done by ideologically driven nonsolutions to serious problems. Anderson died in a Florida...

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  • Wednesday March 19, 2008

Interview with the man behind Baptist Global Warmi...

Posted at Simple Country Boy By Buster

Faith in Public Life interviews seminarian Jonathan Merritt , the Man Behind the Southern Baptist Climate Initiative . He is currently at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina and gives an interesting interview. The full text of...

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  • Tuesday March 18, 2008

This one country boy and his church

Posted at Simple Country Boy By Buster

Swamp-born country boys being what they are, Andrew Sullivan isn't on my regular reading list, although he writes well and with insight on topics which interest me. I was brought to this Sullivan blog entry by a California housewife, devoted mother of...

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  • Wednesday February 27, 2008

Pew Report - US Religious Landscape Survey 2008

Posted at About Change By GeneP2

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life?s just released US Religious Landscape Survey 2008 is the most comprehensive (35,556 adult telephone interviews) I? have encountered. It sub-classifies Protestant churches into three groups: Evangelical Mainline...

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  • Monday October 22, 2007

Dare we Unwindows? Is Ubuntu a heresy?

Posted at Simple Country Boy By Buster

Judging from various Web site statistics I have seen, and periodic publicity about digital infections as they swept through official Southern Baptist denominational offices, Southern Baptists are Windows centric. Now I'm just a dirt-road Methodist who grew up...

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  • Tuesday July 10, 2007

Not real churches?

Posted at Editor's Journal By TonyCartledge

Baptists, as a rule, don't cotton much to the idea of a pope who alone gets direct messages from God and who rules the church. We get riled up, for example, when denominational leaders insist that their interpretation of doctrine is the one everyone else...

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