Wayland Pioneer Band’s Russia trip beyond imagination

Posted: 6/09/06

Wayland Pioneer Band’s
Russia trip beyond imagination

By Jonathan Petty

Wayland Baptist University

MOSCOW—Wayland Baptist University’s Pioneer Band recently traveled to Russia, performing indoor and outdoor concerts in conjunction with the country’s Victory Day celebrations.

06/09/2006 - By John Rutledge

Editor emeritus named Elder Statesman

Posted: 6/09/06

Editor emeritus named Elder Statesman

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

INDEPENDENCE—Praised as a prophetic writer who remained “firm in his beliefs but fair to those who disagreed with him,” Baptist Standard Editor Emeritus Presnall Wood received the 2006 Texas Baptist Elder Statesman Award June 4.

06/09/2006 - By John Rutledge

Storylist for 6/12/06 issue

Storylist for week of 6/12/06 TAKE ME TO: Top Story |  Texas |  Opinion |  Baptists |  Faith in Action |  Faith & Culture |  Book Reviews |  Classifieds  |  Departments  |  Bible Study • BRINGING HOPE:…

06/09/2006 - By John Rutledge

Judge rules Christian rehab program violates constitution

Posted: 6/09/06

Judge rules Christian rehab
program violates constitution

By Robert Marus

Associated Baptist Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (ABP)—In what could be a major setback for government’s ability to fund religious charities, a federal judge has ruled against an Iowa program designed to rehabilitate prisoners through Christianity.

06/09/2006 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by Berry Simpson: Sleep

Posted: 6/09/06

CYBER COLUMN:
Sleep

By Berry Simpson

I’ll just go ahead and say this up front: I have a mixed relationship with sleep. Sometimes I love it; other times I hate it.

Take afternoon naps, for example. I like to take naps. In fact, I would say that I need naps in my life in order to recharge myself. If I miss my Sunday-afternoon nap, it will haunt me for days. I may get more done that particular Sunday afternoon, but I’ll be operating at half-effort the rest of the week.

06/09/2006 - By John Rutledge

RIGHT OR WRONG? Making a living will

Posted: 6/09/06

RIGHT OR WRONG?
Making a living will

“I have some serious surgery scheduled, and I have been advised to prepare a will, sign a statement of advanced directives and designate someone with medical power of attorney. What, specifically, are the latter two items and their benefits?”

06/09/2006 - By John Rutledge

Blogs draw attention to anticipated showdown at SBC

Posted: 6/07/06

Blogs draw attention to
anticipated showdown at SBC

By Hannah Elliott, Greg Warner & Robert Marus

Associated Baptist Press

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP)—Blogs already have revolutionized secular politics, and whether a subset of it has revolutionized Baptist politics will be seen at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting June 13-14 in Greensboro, N.C.

The meeting will feature the first seriously contested SBC presidential election in a decade and several other controversial business items. The combination likely will produce the most contentious convention meeting since 1991, when moderates left after a long and bitter struggle with fundamentalists over control of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

06/07/2006 - By John Rutledge

Born Again Grillers fire up meat, ministry

Posted: 6/07/06

Born Again Grillers fire up meat, ministry

By George Henson

Staff Writer

GATESVILLE—Some people say, “The way to a man’s heart is through is stomach.” David Braziel believes that adage holds true not just in romance, but also in spiritual matters.

Braziel and a team of 15 other volunteers from Coryell Community Church in Gatesville stand ready to feed all they can. The Born Again Grillers, as the ministry is called, have cooked at civic events such as a recent American Heart Association walk, golf tournaments, birthday parties and anniversaries.

06/07/2006 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series forJune 18: Women and men in the church

Posted: 6/07/06

BaptistWay Bible Series for June 18

Women and men in the church

• 1 Timothy 2:8-15

By Joseph Matos

06/07/2006 - By John Rutledge

Family Bible Series for June 18: Be obedient in following the Spirit’s leadership

Posted: 6/07/06

Family Bible Series for June 18

Be obedient in following the Spirit’s leadership

• Acts 8:26-35

By Greg Ammons

06/07/2006 - By John Rutledge

Explore the Bible Series for June 18: The trials of life are not always easily explained

Posted: 6/07/06

Explore the Bible Series for June 18

The trials of life are not always easily explained

• Job 15:1-21:34

By James Adair

Baptist University of the Americas, San Antonio

When Galileo Galilei read Nicolaus Copernicus’s book On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres, he was intrigued by the hypothesis that the sun, rather than the earth, was the center of the solar system. Galileo, however, was not one to take the ideas of another person by faith; he had to test those ideas to see if they were true.

06/07/2006 - By John Rutledge

Standard Editor Emeritus named Texas Baptist Elder Statesman

Posted: 6/05/06

Standard Editor Emeritus named
Texas Baptist Elder Statesman

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

INDEPENDENCE—Praised as a prophetic writer who remained “firm in his beliefs but fair to those who disagreed with him,” Baptist Standard Editor Emeritus Presnall Wood received the 2006 Texas Baptist Elder Statesman Award June 4.

Family and friends—including members of Wood’s Sunday school class from Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas—assembled at the historic Independence Baptist Church for the awards presentation, Bible study, worship service and old-fashioned covered-dish church picnic.

06/05/2006 - By John Rutledge