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Floyd urges unity and vision, decries ‘sound of war’

February 23, 2021 By Illinois Baptist Staff

The SBC Executive Committee gathered Feb. 22-23 for the first time since COVID-19 shut down virtually all in-person meetings. The Nashville meeting was marked by leaders’ calls for cooperation amid several public fractures in Baptist life: racial tensions, a dispute between six state conventions and the North American Mission Board, and a recently released report […]

The year of the asterisk

February 23, 2021 By Illinois Baptist Staff

One of the more memorable aspects of the film 61* is the asterisk. The movie with a number for a name depicts Roger Maris’s quest to top Babe Ruth’s single season home run record. Ruth hit 60 homers in 154 games in 1927. But by 1961, the season was expanded to 162 games. That year […]

The Briefing: Baptists respond in Texas

February 23, 2021 By Illinois Baptist Staff

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Relief groups on the scene after severe winter weather Disaster Relief crews and other Baptist groups in Texas are working to respond after historic storms and cold temperatures left millions without power and water. “This is truly a statewide emergency in every sense of the word,” said David Wells of Texas Baptist Men. “Every city, […]

Report confirms Zacharias’s history of abuse

February 16, 2021 By Illinois Baptist Staff

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Investigation confirms late apologist sexually abused women Ravi Zacharias, who died in May 2020 from cancer, sexually abused women under the guise of massages for a chronic back injury at least as far back as February 2014, according to a report commissioned by his ministry, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM). Calling the report’s findings “horrendous,” […]

2(1)st century Church of the future

February 10, 2021 By Illinois Baptist Staff

(2)1st century Church of the future

“You probably don’t have as many people in your church building as you did a year ago.” Speaking at the Illinois Leadership Summit Jan. 19-20, Dave Rhodes acknowledged one of the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a chief cause for pastoral anxiety. After months of stalled ministries and intermittent shutdowns, leaders might feel […]

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