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Rwandan genocide survivor finds freedom in forgiveness
Posted: 4/13/06
(Photo by Sebastiao Sagado/AMAZONAS Images/RNS)Rwandan genocide survivor
finds freedom in forgivenessBy Bob Smietana
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)—A line from Christ’s model prayer—“forgive us … as we forgive”—haunted Immaculee Ilibagiza during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
04/13/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 4/13/06
Texas Tidbits
ETBU business students place in top 20 globally. Students from East Texas Baptist University’s Fred M. Hale School of Business who participated in the GLO-BUS strategic management simulation placed in the top 20 in an overall worldwide ranking. ETBU students operated a digital camera company in head-to-head competition against companies run by other schools. The team’s challenge was to craft and execute a competitive strategy that resulted in a respected brand image, kept their company in contention for global market leadership, and produced good financial performance as measured by earnings per share, return on investment, stock price appreciation and credit rating.
Baylor Horizons project gets Lilly grant. Baylor Horizons, a university project designed to help students, faculty and staff explore the relationship between faith and vocation, has received a $500,000 grant from Lilly Endowment as a follow-up to an earlier $2 million grant in 2000. With matching funds Baylor will provide, the grant will total $1.1 million for the three-year project.
04/13/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Cybercolumn by Berry Simpson: Looking through lenses
Posted: 4/13/06
CYBER COLUMN:
Looking through lenses
By Berry Simpson
Nowadays, one of our favorite fall-back movies—that is, movies on DVD that Cyndi and I watch again and again while doing other things, like grading papers or writing journals or playing Soduko on the internet—is National Treasure. In the movie, the lead character, Ben Gates, uses Benjamin Franklin’s secret spectacles to read treasure clues written on the back of the Declaration of Independence. The specs have several movable lenses, each a different color, and it takes multiple combinations of all the lenses to read every clue. He can’t see all the clues he needs until he looks through every one of the lenses.
Berry D. Simpson People are like that. In order to know someone well, you have to see them in all their different ways. You have to spend time with them, talking and asking questions and listening to their stories. But even conversation goes only so far. We can all think of people we’ve worked with for years, people we’ve talked with for years, and yet we really don’t know so much about them. Often, we’re surprised to learn they love to paint, or they are trained musicians, or widely known and respected outside their workaday lives. In order to really know someone, you have to be with them in all the things they do. You have to see their lives through every available lens.
04/13/2006 - By John Rutledge
