January 6, 2003
___ SBC professor supports Lott's comment. While Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, denounced the controversial comments of former House Majority Leader Trent Lott, an SBC seminary professor took Lott to task for apologizing for his comments that the nation would have been better off if segregationist Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948. "Why isn't Trent Lott using this as an opportunity to discuss the issue of states' rights and limited constitutional government, the very platform on which Thurmond ran?" asked Dave Black, who teaches New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. "Aren't those ideals still worth defending today?" Black included the critique in a column for the online publication www.patriotist.com and one his personal website, www.daveblackonline.com. The Patriotist's website decries the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and calls the Union's role in the Civil War "an unbridled campaign of terror aimed at a group of States that had the audacity to form a government more suited to their needs than the federal empire."
___ LifeWay shippers found ship-shape. The logistics department of LifeWay Christian Resources has been named the 2002 Shipper of the Year by the National Small Shipments Traffic Conference. LifeWay's shippers were featured in Logistics Management magazine. About 200 employees work in the logistics department. Seventy-five are in the Nashville shipping center, which handles quarterly orders; 100 are in the Lebanon, Tenn., distribution center, which ships undated orders; and 25 work in logistics support. LifeWay sends 97 percent of its shipments within set company standards. The logistics department's inventory accuracy is 99.9 percent, and employees fill orders with almost 100 percent perfection.
___ Lessons offered on courageous churches. Trinity Baptist Church of San Antonio will work with the Baptist Center for Ethics and the Baptist General Association of Virginia to produce a new online curriculum for adult Bible study. The series, called "Courageous Churches," will be available for use in the April-June quarter. Thirteen lessons will explore examples of biblical courage, biblical marks of the church and biblical accounts of courageous churches. More information about the lessons is available online at www.ethicsdaily.com.
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