CECB recommends Executive Board to ask HBU to end ties with SBCT_53104

Posted: 5/19/04

CECB recommends Executive Board
to ask HBU to end ties with SBCT

By Ferrell Foster

Texas Baptist Communications

DALLAS–The Baptist General Convention of Texas Christian Education Coordinating Board wants Houston Baptist University to rescind a "fraternal relationship" it established last year with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention.

05/20/2004 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by Berry D. Simpson: Circle Bluff_51704

Posted: 5/17/04

CYBERCOLUMN:
Circle Bluff

By Berry D. Simpson

We correctly analyzed our mistake. We’d started up the bluff too soon instead of searching downriver for the trail. We knew to correct our mistake we should keep moving up in elevation, but we also suspected we might be on the wrong bluff or might be making a long circuitous route that would sweep us past our target—the Circle Bluff lookout point.

We were lost in that we hadn’t yet found our trail, but we were never so lost we couldn’t find our way home. I was a little worried that we might waste all afternoon on this one hill trying to find a way down off the bluff, and I would feel bad about that, since Cyndi and I talked another family into hiking with us when they could have gone swimming with everyone else.

05/17/2004 - By John Rutledge

Storylist_51704

Storylist for 5/17/04 issue GO TO SECTIONS: • Texas       • Baptists       • Faith       • Departments      • Opinion       • Bible Study       • Calling to missions came…

05/17/2004 - By John Rutledge

Authentic Christian lives convince postmoderns gospel is true, pastor says_51704

Posted: 5/14/04

Authentic Christian lives convince
postmoderns gospel is true, pastor says

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

ARLINGTON–In a culture where spirituality is more about human gratification than relationship with God, Christians should follow the example of the first century church, a Dallas pastor suggested.

05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge

Real interfaith dialogue demands honesty, understanding_51704

Posted: 5/14/04

Real interfaith dialogue demands honesty, understanding

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

ARLINGTON–Rather than retreating from the challenge of proliferating world religions in an increasingly pluralistic society, Christians should enter into honest dialogue with people who hold different beliefs, a Dallas pastor told a national conference examining “ultimate questions.”

05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge

For Christians, the real question of suffering is ‘how,’ not ‘why’_51704

Posted: 5/14/04

For Christians, the real question
of suffering is 'how,' not 'why'

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

ARLINGTON–For Christians, the question of evil and suffering is “how” rather than “why,” panelists told a national leadership conference.

05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge

Low-power Spanish radio station directed by Higher Power, pastor insists_51704

Posted: 5/14/04

Low-power Spanish radio station directed
by Higher Power, pastor insists

By Terri Jo Ryan

Special to the Standard

WACO–By Federal Communications Commission standards, Radio Amistad is a “low-power” station. But ask the pastor of Amistad Baptist Church in Waco what fuels his new venture into ethnic Christian broadcasting, and he'll tell you he is “higher-powered.”

05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge

Proposed SBC resolution calls for withdrawal from public education_51704

Posted: 5/14/04

Proposed SBC resolution calls for
withdrawal from public education

By Bob Allen

EthicsDaily.com

The Southern Baptist Convention may consider a resolution urging parents to pull their children out of public schools and educate them either by home schooling or sending them to Christian private schools.

05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge

Moral shortsightedness common in business, research says_51704

Posted: 5/14/04

Moral shortsightedness common in business, research says

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

ARLINGTON–Many advertising executives fail to see any ethical implications of their work, and if they do see moral problems, they refuse to talk about them, a University of Texas professor has discovered.

05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge

Debate about same-sex marriage continues across country_51704

Posted: 5/14/04

Debate about same-sex marriage continues across country

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)–As the battle over same-sex marriage and other gay-rights issues rages across the country, both supporters and opponents of gay rights logged several important victories in recent weeks.

05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge

Freedoms form foundation for Baptist group_51704

Posted: 5/14/04

Freedoms form foundation for Baptist group

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP)–At their recent semi-annual meeting, directors of Associated Baptist Press agreed to enter into a new educational and fund-raising partnership with two sister Baptist organizations.

Board members approved entering into a partnership with the Washington, D.C.-based Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs and the Georgia-based Baptists Today news journal, pending final approval by both of those organizations.

The agencies would provide churches with educational materials about the historical Baptist and biblical emphasis on religious freedom and freedom of speech. The effort would include joint appeals to Baptist congregations for annual offerings or church budget line-item contributions that the three agencies would then divide evenly.

05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge

Baptist student ministries seeking contact with armed service academy new arrivals_51704

Posted: 5/14/04

Baptist student ministries seeking contact
with armed service academy new arrivals

Baptist student ministries at the United States armed service academies want to contact incoming cadets and midshipmen, campus ministry leaders emphasize.

At the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Baptist Student Union representatives are willing to provide special services to men and women who arrive early.

“For those arriving June 30, we will meet them at the airport, provide free lodging, meals, transportation, and take them to the academy at the appointed time on July 1. For those arriving July 1, the Air Force Academy buses will meet them, but we would like to know of their coming so we can make contact once they have arrived,” said Dwain Gregory, director of Baptist Collegiate Ministries at the Air Force Academy.

05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge