DOWN HOME: Letterman’s in for tiring, happy time_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

DOWN HOME:
Letterman's in for tiring, happy time

Comedian David Letterman announced the birth of his first child last week, just a few days before our oldest daughter, Lindsay, turned 20.

Letterman is 56–nine years older than I. If you're a math whiz, you've already figured out I was 29 years younger than Letterman is now when Lindsay joined our family. Her sister, Molly, followed three years and three days later.

So, I'm celebrating Lindsay's 20th and Molly's 17th birthdays this week by counting my blessings.

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

EDITORIAL: What do you have to do to call your church ‘Baptist’?_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

EDITORIAL:
What do you have to do to call your church 'Baptist'?

A lawsuit in Georgia has raised a good question: Who owns the rights to a religious name?

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta has sued Mision Catolica: Capilla de la Fe (Catholic Mission: Chapel of Faith), charging the network of Spanish-speaking churches falsely represents itself as Catholic.

“You cannot simply set up whatever church and call yourself 'Roman Catholic.' That's fraud,” archdiocese attorney David Brown declared.

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for Nov. 16_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for Nov. 16

Christ has given new meaning to 'triumph'

Colossians 2:6-23

By John Duncan

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Family Bible Series Lesson for Nov. 16: Complacency can strangle ministry still today_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

LifeWay Family Bible Series Lesson for Nov. 16

Complacency can strangle ministry still today

Acts 13:1-52

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

FFH stands for wholesome fun for the whole family_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

FFH stands for wholesome fun for the whole family

By Leann Callaway

Special to the Standard

The popularity of the Christian band FFH has gone “out of this world.”

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

Prof calls for raising up the sacred in burial acts_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

Prof calls for raising up the sacred in burial acts

By Chris Meehan

Religion News Service

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (RNS) –Burial rituals of the Tlingit Indians in Alaska contain all the sacred and ancient elements sorely lacking in many modern funerals, according to theologian Thomas Long.

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

Georgia Methodist home settles discrimination case_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

Georgia Methodist home settles discrimination case

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

ATLANTA (ABP)–Critics of government funding for faith-based initiatives have declared victory in a Georgia case involving a Methodist child-care facility.

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

Hall completes triple crown with inauguration at Howard Payne_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

Hall completes triple crown with inauguration at Howard Payne

BROWNWOOD–Lanny Hall made history Oct. 17 when he was inaugurated as Howard Payne University's 18th president and became the first person to serve as president of three Texas Baptist universities.

Previously, Hall was president of Wayland Baptist University and president and chancellor of Hardin-Simmons University.

“Howard Payne is a special place, and I am here for a purpose,” Hall told the 850 people attending the inauguration ceremony.

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

Carbon-14 dating confirms biblical link to Hezekiah’s Tunnel_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

Carbon-14 dating confirms biblical link to Hezekiah's Tunnel

JERUSALEM (RNS)–Using Carbon-14 dating techniques, Israeli and British scientists have determined that Siloam's Tunnel, a long, circuitous underground passage constructed below Jerusalem's ancient City of David probably was built about 700 B.C., when King Hezekiah ruled the land of Judea.

This photo shows the descent into the ancient Siloam's Tunnel and Gihon Spring. Scientists have determined the authenticity of the long underground tunnel, which is mentioned in the Bible. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority/RNS Photo)

The radiometric dating corroborates biblical texts such as 2 Kings 20:20 and 2 Chronicles 32:3-4 as well as an ancient inscription, discovered in 1880, on one of the tunnel's walls. Although this inscription appears to refer to Hezekiah, it does not do so by name.

This marks the first time a structure mentioned in the Bible has been dated radiometrically, according to researchers Amos Frumkin, Aryeh Shimron and Jeff Rosenbaum, who published their findings in the journal Nature.

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

HOPE program brings new direction for teens in Round Rock complex_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

HOPE program brings new direction
for teens in Round Rock complex

By Miranda Bradley

Texas Baptist Children's Home & Family Services

ROUND ROCK–Two months ago, 15-year-old Marquell blended right into his surroundings. Like most kids in his Meadow Ridge apartment neighborhood, he stayed out until the wee hours of the morning hanging out with friends, which usually led to trouble.

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

n tough times, Israel finds a friend in evangelicals_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

In tough times, Israel finds a friend in evangelicals

By Michele Chabin

Religion News Service

JERUSALEM (RNS)–Times are hard in Jerusalem, with many stores, restaurants and hotels shut down due to the ongoing Palestinian uprising, but you wouldn't have known it from the rapturous smiles on the faces of the thousands of evangelical Christians who thronged to the holy city in October to support Israel.

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge

Texas Baptist Forum_111003

Posted: 11/07/03

TEXAS BAPTIST FORUM
False charges

Keith Eitel's charge is absolutely false that the Parks administration at the Foreign Mission Board was not biblically based and continued the trend of liberalism.

E-mail the editor at marvknox@baptiststandard.com

This is a strange claim from a man who has never even discussed this with me. It also is strange that board trustees known to be very conservative who served during my years as a staff member and president include W.A. Criswell, Billy Graham, K. Owen White, W.O. Vaught, Homer Lindsay Sr., Mark Corts, Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler. None of them ever accused my predecessor, Baker James Cauthen, or me of liberalism.

Why is Eitel now making unfounded allegations?

11/07/2003 - By John Rutledge