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“Finding a Christian Perspective on the Economic Crisis'”

Read a Sept. 24, 2008, column at Crosswalk.com, “Finding a Christian Perspective on the Economic Crisis,” by R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Mohler says the American system of free enterprise remains the best and says, “There is cause for concern, but no justification for panic.”

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“On Engaging the Direction of the Public School System”

In 2006 the SBC passed a resolution that encouraged “all Southern Baptist churches to solicit individuals from their membership to engage the culture of our public school systems nationwide by running for election to their local school boards and exerting their godly influence upon these school systems.”

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“A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change”

Declaration released in 2008 by the Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative underscoring their belief in human-induced climate change and the responsibility of Baptists to care for the environment. The declaration shares large portions of language with the Evangelical Climate Initiative’s “Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.”

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Julie Nemecek

Julie Nemecek, as the Rev. John Nemecek, was a Baptist minister and longtime professor at Spring Arbor University in Spring Arbor, Mich. The school fired her in December 2006 after she had come out as transgender. She filed a discrimination claim that was later settled, and is now founder and head of a consulting company […]

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