500 join celebration of new Texas Baptist Men facility
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___DALLAS--"The Gathering of the Father's Family" drew more than 500 Texas Baptists to the new Robert Dixon Mission Equipping Center in East Dallas May 6.
___But they did not come to dedicate a building for Texas Baptist Men. They came to dedicate themselves to using the building "for the glory of God," said Bill Pinson, executive director emeritus of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___"We dedicate ourselves to be Jesus kind of people," he said.
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Baylor faculty upset over university center studying creation
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___WACO--A bitter battle has erupted between the faculty and administration of Baylor University over formation of a center charged, in part, with studying whether mathematical and scientific formulas can prove an intelligent design behind creation.
___President Robert Sloan and other university administrators created the Michael PolanyiCenter in October 1999. It is named for a world-renowned physical chemist and philosopher who died in 1976.
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Mission volunteers turn the tide in Galveston
___By Toby Druin
___Regional Correspondent
___GALVESTON--Janice Brooks has her own application for the saying "find a hole and fill it." When she finds a ministry hole or need, she fills it with a Mission Service Corps volunteer.
___Brooks and her husband, Joe, are the Mission Service Corps coordinators for Galveston Baptist Association, shepherding 27 other workers ministering in apartments, interim pastorates, discipleship training, to the homebound, to patients and families at the University of Texas Medical Branch, to the homeless, to people with catastrophic illness, coordinating care of the Chuckwu septuplets and as itinerant missionaries in Belgium. And that's just a partial list.
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'Wake Forest policy on gays addressed
___ATLANTA--Although it did not seek controversy, a North Carolina divinity school has sought to deal redemptively and openly with the issue of homosexuality, its dean reported.
___"Our university has an open-admissions policy," said Bill Leonard, dean of the Wake Forest University Divinity School, which opened last fall.
___"We did not seek this issue. I would not have chosen this issue," Leonard said of the policy during a question-and-answer session at the inaugural meeting of the Network of Mainstream Baptists in Atlanta.
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