Texas Tidbits: Honor for Ware

Weston Ware, longtime opponent of legalized gambling in Texas and veteran lobbyist with the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, will receive the 2011 T.B. Maston Christian Ethics Award.

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Maston Foundation honors Ware. Weston Ware, longtime opponent of legalized gambling in Texas and veteran lobbyist with the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, will receive the 2011 T.B. Maston Christian Ethics Award at a 7 p.m. dinner Nov. 4 at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas. Featured speaker at the event is Javier Elizondo, executive vice president and provost at the Baptist University of the Américas in San Antonio. The awards dinner is sponsored every-other year by the T.B. Maston Foundation, named for a pioneering Baptist ethicist who taught at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth much of the 20th century. Cost is $30 per individual or $200 for a table of eight. To register, visit http://www.tbmaston.org/2011MastonBanquet.html.

Baptist Health Foundation president to retire. Frank Elston, president and chief executive officer of Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio, will retire at the end of the year. He has headed the foundation since it opened in August 2005. Elston spent 35 years as a fund-raising professional and served as vice president of university relations at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio from 1989 to 1997. A trustee search committee has been interviewing candidates for Elston's successor at Baptist Health Foundation, and a new president/CEO is expected to begin in January.

Congressional coalition honors Buckner families. Four Buckner Children and Family Services families were recognized as 2011 Angels in Adoption by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. In making nominations for the award, Rep. Mac Thornberry selected Amarillo residents Tim and December Barcroft, who have fostered three sisters and plan to adopt the girls (see related story on page 15); Rep. Pete Sessions selected Dallas residents Karen and Bryan Perry, who have made more than 30 trips to Guatemala to care for orphans; Rep. Louie Gohmert selected Longview residents Kara and Locke Curfman, who have fostered several children, including some with significant special needs, and have adopted two children; and Rep. Mike Conaway selected Midland resident Robert Ewing, a single father to six adopted children and foster parent to one. The Angels in Adoption program provides an opportunity for members of the U.S. Congress to honor the good work of their constituents who have enriched the lives of foster children and orphans in the United States and abroad.

Elshtain joins Baylor institute. Jean Bethke Elshtain, recent recipient of the Democracy Service Medal from the National Endowment for Democracy, has joined the Baylor University faculty as visiting distinguished professor of religion and public life at Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion. Elshtain—a prolific author—also serves as the Laura Spelman Rockefeller professor of social and political ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Elstain is a past recipient of the Goodnow Award, the highest award bestowed by the American Political Science Association for distinguished service to the profession. She has served on the board of the National Humanities Center and on the President's Council of Bioethics. Currently she is a member of the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Scholars Council of the Library of Congress. At Baylor, Elshtain will conduct and produce new scholarship about the intersection of religion and public life, working alongside faculty as well as undergraduate and graduate students from political science, philosophy and the Honors College.

 

 

 


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