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Abilene church leads drive to sweeten ministry to troops in Iraq
Posted: 5/09/08
Captain Matthew Van Hook, a battalion chaplain, is seeking to give troops in Iraq a welcoming place to find respite from their battles—a coffeehouse at Camp Taji called the Mud House. Abilene church leads drive
to sweeten ministry to troops in IraqBy George Henson
Staff Writer
ABILENE—Pioneer Drive Baptist Church in Abilene is spearheading what has become a communitywide drive to help sweeten a chaplain’s ministry to troops in Iraq.
Capt. Matthew Van Hook, a battalion chaplain, is seeking to give troops a welcoming place to find respite —a coffeehouse at Camp Taji called the Mud House.
05/08/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptist Forum
Posted: 5/09/08
Texas Baptist Forum
Climate change
Thank you for printing John Christy’s excellent article on global warming (April 28). As a climate scientist, he is in a position to expose much of the overreaching we see on the subject—the bulldozer approach to rushing us all into acceptance of Al Gore’s brainchild.
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“We deplore those who are led astray—those Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baptists, evangelicals, Pentecostals and many others who cut Christ’s robes like bandits, who are like the soldiers who crucified Christ, who ripped apart Christ's holy coat.”
Aleksei D. Zorin
Chief Russian Orthodox priest in Stary Oskol, Russia, in a televised sermon that denounced Protestant “sects” (New York Times/RNS)“Whenever we see euphemisms in use, we can know that something morally dubious is going on. Torture is not ‘torture’; it is ‘enhanced interrogation.’ Genocide is not ‘murder’; it is ‘special treatment’ or ‘ethnic cleansing.’ And a developing human being in its first stages is not a ‘baby’ but a ‘potential life.’”
David Gushee
Ethics professor at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology (ABP)“To avoid misunderstandings I would like to say: I was atheist and I stay atheist.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
Former Soviet leader, debunking rumors he converted to Catholicism (RNS)There have been many articles and essays on the need to go slow on trying to control climate change. In a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal, Steven Hayward, author of the annual “Index of Leading Environmental Indicators,” demonstrates the mathematical chances for reaching the 80 percent reduction in emissions by 2050 being pushed by the major presidential candidates and the environmental lobby. In short, it ain’t gonna happen, and wishing won’t make it so.
Ken Boren
05/08/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Future Focus Committee examines Cooperative Program giving trends
Posted: 5/06/08
Future Focus Committee examines
Cooperative Program giving trendsBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
DALLAS—A committee formed to look at the long-range future of the Baptist General Convention of Texas began by examining the past.
At its initial May 5 meeting, the BGCT Future Focus Committee reviewed the work of previous study committees and examined Cooperative Program giving trends over the last 10 years.
05/06/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Expert offers tips to manage mix of religion and politics
Posted: 5/06/08
Expert offers tips to manage
mix of religion and politicsBy Marv Knox
Editor
ABILENE, Texas—Religion and politics inevitably will mix—especially in the U.S. presidential campaign—but that does not mean Americans should sanction a free-for-all, church-state expert Melissa Rogers insisted.
Rogers, director of the Center for Religion & Public Affairs at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., delivered the annual T.B. Maston Christian Ethics Lectures at Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon Seminary in Abilene.
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• Expert offers tips to manage mix of religion and politics
• Ground-rules recommended for religion in public schools05/06/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Future Focus Committee examines Cooperative Program giving trends
Posted: 5/06/08
Ground-rules recommended
for religion in public schoolsBy Marv Knox
Editor
ABILENE—Whatever the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately decides, communities should strive to have better conversations about the role of religion in public schools, Melissa Rogers told participants at the T.B. Maston Christian Ethics Lectures at Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon Seminary.
Rogers, director of the Center for Religion & Public Affairs at Wake Forest University, offered a few ground-rules for guiding the religion-in-schools debate in communities across the nation.
05/06/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Prayer must undergird compassion, missionary doctor insists
Posted: 5/01/08
Prayer must undergird compassion,
missionary doctor insistsBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
GARLAND—Whether in the streets of Bangalore, India, or northeastern Dallas County, the sight of people in need compels Christians to respond in compassion, veteran medical missionary Rebekah Naylor said.
“God is a compassionate God. When Jesus saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion. The New Testament epistles tell us we are to be clothed in compassion,” said Naylor, who served 35 years as a Southern Baptist medical missionary in India.
Rebekah Naylor served 35 years as a Southern Baptist medical missionary in India. 05/05/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Cameron Byler, SBC pioneer in recreation, disaster relief, dies at 79
Posted: 4/30/08
Cameron Byler, SBC pioneer in
recreation, disaster relief, dies at 79By Mickey Noah
Baptist Press
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Cameron Byler, a pioneer in national disaster relief and men’s missions within the Southern Baptist Convention, died Apr. 28 in San Antonio after a brief illness. He would have turned 80 May 11.
A memorial service will be conducted at 1 p.m. May 3 at Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio, where he had lived since moving from Tennessee last July. James Porch, executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Convention, will officiate.
Cameron Byler Byler was preceded in death by his first wife, the former Joyce Christian, and his second wife, the former Andrea Hawkins, who died two months ago. He is survived by three children: Barbara Garland, Portland, Ore.; Chris Byler, San Antonio, and foster son Brad Gray, Nashville, Tenn. He is also survived by three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
05/02/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Immigration Services offers help to people ‘left hanging’
Posted: 5/02/08
Members of the community join with Jesus and Elsa Ramos in cutting the ribbon for Baptist Immigration Services of Brownwood, the first ministry of its kind in the area. (Photos by Analiz Gonzalez/Buckner) Baptist Immigration Services
offers help to people ‘left hanging’By Analiz González
Buckner International
BROWNWOD—Baptist Immigration Services of Brownwood has opened its doors to meet the need for Christian immigration services in Central Texas.
According to its mission statement, the ministry exists to “show the love of Christ by offering affordable legal immigration services to Brown County.”
05/02/2008 - By John Rutledge
