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Religious Liberty

Christians targeted: Global trend is growing

December 5, 2019 By Illinois Baptist Staff

Regaining consciousness after attackers left him for dead in his house church in eastern India, Pastor Basant Kumar Paul proclaimed he no longer fears persecution and is certain of his heavenly home. “My physical body might be weak, but my spirit is very strong, it will not break with persecution,” Morning Star News quoted Paul […]

IBSA joins two lawsuits

September 18, 2019 By Lisa Misner

The Illinois Baptist State Association will join two lawsuits involving religious liberty issues for the purpose of protecting Southern Baptist churches in the state. The IBSA Board of Directors voted to participate in the litigation in its fall meeting Sept. 10. One case involves zoning regulations that prohibit churches and church plants from being located […]

Chicago park rules called unconstitutional

July 29, 2019 By Illinois Baptist Staff

A law firm specializing in defending religious liberty says Chicago authorities are suppressing free speech in the city’s Millennium Park. Mauck & Baker reported a Wheaton College student was sharing the gospel in March near Cloud Gate (a large stainless steel sculpture commonly known as “The Bean”), when a park authority said the student’s actions […]

Legal victory for ministerial housing allowance

July 11, 2019 By Baptist Press

The legal challenge to the constitutionality of the ministerial housing allowance is over—for now. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) announced June 14 it would not appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court its March judicial loss, thus concluding its latest effort to gain nullification of the allowance that is part of a 65-year-old federal law. […]

Changes predicted to state laws including marijuana legalization

February 6, 2019 By Lisa Misner

Springfield | Gov. JB Pritzker and the Democrat majority leading the Illinois General Assembly have on their legislative agenda moral issues that evangelicals and conservative voters will likely want to watch. According to Concerned Christian Ministries, 1,000 bills have been proposed to date, among them bills expanding health care, mental health instruction, and teaching of […]

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Abuse in the SBC

Former Illinois pastor accused; two relationships occurred in youth ministry in 2002

Illinois Baptist Staff

Former Illinois pastor Wes Feltner is accused by two women of abusive relationships, one of them sexual, when he was their youth minister in Indiana 17 years ago. The charges came to light as Feltner is lead candidate for the pastorate of First Baptist Church of Clarksville, Tennessee. The story was reported by the Clarksville […]

Longtime Chicago pastor resigns; sexual abuse prior to ministry among reasons

Illinois Baptist Staff

Charles Lyons resigned as pastor of Armitage Baptist Church in Chicago following what church leaders called a “corrective leave of absence” that began in October 2018. Read…

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Our family’s Christmas miracle

Nate Adams

If you have children still at home, or perhaps grandchildren for whom you care, you may have experienced occasions when they didn’t want to go to church. As frustrating as that can be, the feeling of disappointment and concern reaches a new level when those children are adults. That’s where we found ourselves as parents […]

Pat’s Playbook: Time to evaluate

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Bloom where you’re planted: Ministers’ wives meet in Marion

Lisa Misner

Robin Dickerson said, “There’s no training to be a pastor’s wife.” She then asked a room full of women, “Have any of you all had training?” The question was greeted with laughter. Dickerson (right), wife of Bob Dickerson, pastor of Marion First Baptist Church, was the keynote speaker at the Ministers’ Wives Fellowship during the […]

Pregnancy clinic planned

Stewardship plan provides life-long care

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Mission

All who wander are not lost

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Peter Station* lives his life chasing after cows, camels, and gers—large, round, felt tents that seem to move more than they sit still. His country in East Asia has more than a million nomadic people scattered across a land mass about half the size of the U.S. To say they’re hard to find is an […]

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