 April 7, 1999
Baptist Briefs
___ WMU nominations accepted. The search committee charged with finding the next executive director of Woman's Missionary Union is ready to accept recommendations for the position, announced Ann Coffman, chair of the committee. Recommendations will be accepted through June 1, 1999. Letters of recommendation should be mailed to Coffman at Box No. 302, 5224 State Rd. 46, Sanford, Fla. 32771.
___ NAMB communications honored. Texas-based employees of the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board's broadcast communications group recently won awards from MovieGuide magazine and the cable Telly Awards. "Common Ground," a documentary on the life and influence of Billy Graham, received the Swiss America Golden Eagle Award for outstanding redemptive documentary from MovieGuide. Five NAMB programs also received Classic Telly Awards recognizing outstanding non-network and cable TV programs.
___ Signers called to repent. Members of a group called Ex-Catholics for Christ have called on evangelical Christians who signed the 1994 document "Evangelicals and Catholics Together" to repent and recant the doctrines espoused in the document. Southern Baptist Convention leaders Richard Land and Larry Lewis drew fire for signing the document, along with such notables as Charles Colson and J.I. Packer. Land and Lewis later withdrew their signatures, but that's not enough, according to Tom McMahon, an organ-izer of the March 27 conference at Countryside Bible Church in Southlake. "Evangelicals and Catholics Together" highlighted areas of agreement, particularly on social issues, while acknowledging theological differences exist between evangelicals and Catholics. Land is president of the SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission; Lewis is former president of the SBC's Home Mission Board.
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