Schools can't run pre-game prayers
___By Kenny Byrd
___Associated Baptist Press
___WASHINGTON (ABP)--Opening high school football games with prayer violates the separation of church and state, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 19.
___While not banning all prayers at public schools, the court ruled 6-3 that a Texas school district's policy of allowing a student elected by a majority of classmates to deliver an invocation over the public-address system before home football games is unconstitutional.
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HSU will name building for Skiles
___ABILENE--A $l million commitment to help fund a new $3 million social sciences building at Hardin-Simmons University was announced last week, highlighting a party for President Emeritus Elwin Skiles on his 88th birthday.
___The building will bear his name.
___President Lanny Hall said family members of Skiles, a former pastor of First Baptist Church in Abilene, are donating funds for the project.
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SBC resolution supports capital punishment
=___By Trennis Henderson
___Kentucky Western Recorder
___ORLANDO, Fla. (ABP)--For the first time, the Southern Baptist Convention has adopted a resolution supporting capital punishment as "a legitimate form of punishment for those guilty of murder or treasonous acts that result in death."
___The resolution was one of only two proposed resolutions that generated debate among convention messengers June 14. A proposal focusing on the threat of "New Age globalism" was amended twice before gaining final approval.
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Texas students journey to China for lessons in business and faith
___By Charles Richardson
___Hardin-Simmons University
___ABILENE--A l6-member group of students and faculty from Hardin-Simmons University returned to Texas after a 21-day study tour of China surprised at the freedom to publish and sell Bibles and the friendliness of the people.
___"I've never been in a place that I have felt more loved than China," said Jeff Skains of Abilene. Although planned with an international business agenda, the class also allowed the Hardin-Simmons group visits with Chinese Christians.
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This week's Standard features a special report on Baptist views on creeds and confessions of faith, inluding comments by BGCT Executive Director Charles Wade on how the Texas convention will react to recent changes in the Baptist Faith & Message.
BAPTIST FAITH & MESSAGE
The complete text of the amended Baptist Faith & Message Statement is available on the Southern Baptist Convention website.
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