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Buckner explores needs in Mexico
Posted: 1/25/08
A girl at a Zapoteco village in a Oaxaca mountain makes corn tortillas by hand. The people in this community live in one-bedroom aluminum homes with dirt floors. (Photos by Russ Dilday/Buckner) Buckner explores needs in Mexico
By Analiz González
Buckner International
MEXICO CITY—Observers of Mexico say it’s hard to speak of the country in absolute terms. Its needs are as varied as the multiple versions of “Mexican food” people eat in the United States.
Mexico has hundreds of people-groups with dozens of languages, lifestyles and dialects. In the cities, adults often crowd into forsaken rooms in overpopulated barrios.
Dexton Shores, director of ministry development in Mexico and the Border, speaks with a child in Oaxaca. Shores is identifying needs in Mexico for future church missions and ministry opportunities. 01/25/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Christian voters broadening political agenda, evangelical panelists say
Posted: 1/25/08
Richard Cizik, vice president of governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals. Christian voters broadening political
agenda, evangelical panelists sayBy Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (ABP)—The Washington auditorium that once hosted a news program famous for back-and-forth arguments between political opponents instead recently featured a very different dialogue—a group of evangelical Christians denouncing the religious and political polarization of the last two presidential campaign cycles.
Panel participants, who ranged from former supporters of President Bush to some of his most vehement Christian critics, addressed the question, “Choosing a president: What do evangelicals really want?”
Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners/Call to Renewal 01/25/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Friends of Jesus share good news with their parents
Posted: 1/25/08
Children gather outside the Martínez home to worship after Bible class. (Photos by Russ Dilday/Buckner) Friends of Jesus share good
news with their parentsBy Analiz González
Buckner International
OAXACA, Mexico — In southern Mexico, a group of recent Christian converts meets in a colonia in Oaxaca. And all the new believers are under age 15.
They study the Bible. They worship on the street Fridays and fearlessly invite others to learn about God. They know God changed their lives, and they share their faith with their parents.
Sergio, 9, sits and talks with Marco Antonio Martínez after an Amigos de Jesus meeting. Sergio is an orphan who has bonded with the Martínez family. 01/25/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Huckabee’s role in SBC conflict presaged political balancing act
Posted: 1/21/08
Huckabee’s role in SBC conflict
presaged political balancing actBy Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP)—Mike Huckabee’s role in the holy war that divided the Southern Baptist Convention was as delicate a balancing act as the one he’s attempting now in his presidential campaign, balancing grassroots populism and right-wing conservatism.
Moreover, Huckabee’s nuanced role in denominational politics may have something to do with why the former Arkansas governor, despite earning a grassroots following among conservative evangelicals in early primaries, has failed to garner clear support from the Religious Right’s powerbrokers.
Mike Huckabee, shown as a young pastor and as governor of Arkansas speaking to Baptist newspaper editors in 1998. (Right photo by Jim Veneman) 01/21/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State
Posted: 1/18/08
Around the State
• Buckner Adoption will hold informational meetings for families interested in adopting internationally or domestically. Each meeting will detail the adoption process, fees and children available for adoption. All meetings will be held at the Buckner Children’s Home campus, located at 5200 South Buckner Boulevard in Dallas. Prior to attending each workshop, families must complete a free pre-application and questionnaire, available online at www.buckneradoption.org. There is a $50 materials fee for each meeting. Meetings have been scheduled for Feb. 15, 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m., international; March 7, 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m., international; April 11, 1:30-5 p.m., domestic infant; April 22, 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m., international; May 9, 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m., international; July 25, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., domestic infant; July 25, 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m., international; Aug. 22, 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m., international; Oct. 10, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., international; Oct. 10, 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m., domestic infant; and Nov. 21, 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m., international. To register, contact Sharon Hedrick at (866) 236-7823 or shedrick@buckner.org.
The Immortal Ten, a work by sculptor Bruce Green, has been erected on the Baylor University campus to memorialize the 10 Baylor students who died in a bus-train collision Jan. 22, 1927, in Round Rock. One of America’s first athletic tragedies happened on a rainy day as the men’s basketball team headed to Austin for a Southwest Conference matchup with Texas. As a result of the tragedy, the remainder of the 1927 season was canceled, and the first highway overpass in Texas was constructed in Round Rock. • Five Baylor graduates were honored by the Baylor Alumni Association as distinguished alumni at a black-tie banquet Jan. 11. Honorees were Steven Browning, the U.S. ambassador to Uganda; Virginia DuPuy, mayor of Waco and CEO of DuPuy Oxygen; Mark Hurd, CEO, president and chairman of the board of Hewlett-Packard; James Shelhamer, deputy chief of the clinical center’s critical care medicine department at the National Institutes of Health; and Abelardo Valdez, a lawyer and former U.S. ambassador and chief of protocol for the White House.
• East Texas Baptist University’s department of nursing saw its first fall graduating class last semester. The four graduates were Peggy Gardner of Sherman, Caroline Caskey-Hardee of Liberty City, Helena Reed of Shreveport, La., and Jennifer Reznicek of Kaufman. All four already had been hired by hospitals upon graduation. One hundred eight students received degrees during fall commencement.
• Entreprenuer, author and philanthropist Paul Meyer of Waco was awarded an honorary doctor of humanities degree during University of Mary Hardin-Baylor fall commencement ceremonies. Meyer provided the lead gift for the Paul and Jane Meyer Christian Studies Center, which will be completed this year. The facility will provide a new chapel, classrooms and office space for the College of Christian Studies. One hundred eighty-three students received degrees during the ceremony.
01/18/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Book Reviews
Posted: 1/18/08
Book Reviews
Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries by Gerald L. Sittser (IVP Books)
Gerald Sittser, professor of theology at Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash., gives great amounts of information and insight into the lives of men and women of faith, from the time of the early church to the present.
Water from a Deep Well reveals myriad movements within the Christian community. From the early church fathers and the desert saints to present-day evangelicals, Sittser details the actions and commitments of those who lived their lives in devotion to God.
Chapters focus on early-church martys, the organizers of church orders, the significance of cathedral construction and icons, monastries, Christian mysticism, the reformers, conversion, preaching and mission movements. Loaded with many topics that one would expect to study in a church history class, his book is richly documented. But because of its breadth, the book does not go into depth, providing only enough information to offer an overview of the movements and the lives of the people involved.
What are you reading that other Texas Baptists would find helpful? Send suggestions and reviews to books@baptiststandard.com. 01/18/2008 - By John Rutledge
