Religious leaders without religion: How humanist, atheist and spiritual-but-not-religious chaplains tend to patients’ needs – The Conversation

In times of loss, change or other challenges, chaplains can listen, provide comfort and discuss spiritual needs. These spiritual caregivers can be found working in hospitals, universities, prisons and many other secular settings, serving people of all faiths and those with no faith tradition at all. Yet a common assumption is that chaplains themselves must…

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FBFI 2023: A Lesson on Evangelism from John 4

During our recent Annual Meeting held at Faith Baptist Bible College in Ankeny, Iowa, our theme was “Reclaiming the Great Commission.” In our podcast last week, I interviewed Jim Tillotson, the President of Faith Baptist Bible College & Seminary located in Ankeny, Iowa. Jim was one of our speakers at the Annual Meeting. I promised…

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Interview 12: With the Word to the World (podcast)

Our May/June issue of FrontLine was put together by the faculty and staff of Faith Baptist Bible College & Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa. We appreciate all the articles that appeared in that issue. For this installment of the podcast, we offer an interview with Jim Tillotson, the president of Faith Baptist Bible College. He writes…

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FBFI 2023 Workshop: Connecting the Local Church to the Local Community

During our recent Annual Meeting held at Faith Baptist Bible College in Ankeny, Iowa, our theme was “Reclaiming the Great Commission.” Besides the preaching sessions, our speakers and other leaders conducted several outstanding Workshop sessions, most of which we recorded. We offer them along with the audio of the main messages. Dr. Dennis Wilkening conducted…

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Podcast Interview 11: Rescue the Perishing

  From our March/April edition of FrontLine magazine comes an article by Rachel Langendorfer, GFAM missionary in Papua/New Guinea. Her article is called: Rescue the Perishing Ministering the Gospel in Medical Emergencies Rachel is a family nurse practitioner ministering in a rural clinic in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. She has served as a…

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Christian Choices and Reproductive Technologies (Podcast)

L’chaim, goes the Hebrew blessing: To life! Life is celebrated at its beginning and mourned at its close. Appropriately, we rejoice in life and living. Few topics will so ignite debates among Christians as the ethics of controlling human fertility. How could it not? Here our discussion involves the most vulnerable of our society: the…

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