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  DOWN HOME: OK, so the officer didn’t laugh, too_72803

  Posted: 7/25/03

  DOWN HOME:
  OK, so the officer didn't laugh, too

  Except for an encounter with one of Krotz Springs' finest, we had a perfect vacation.

  Joanna, Lindsay, Molly and I spent a week at the beach, the favored summer retreat of our teenage girls. The other day, I tried to count; this was the ninth or 10th trip we've taken to the beach. I hope the girls remember these trips as fondly as I remember the vacations my family took when I was a kid.

  MARV KNOX Editor

  Back in the “old days,” we lived in the Panhandle, where Daddy was a pastor. The beach seemed a million miles away, so we went camping in the mountains of New Mexico or Colorado. I still favor a mountain vacation–the sound of wind rushing through the pines; the pungent smell of the woods; the sting of icy water when you wade in the streams; the cold nights that induce great sleep.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• EDITORIAL: Speak the truth or show love? Why can’t we do both?_72803

  Posted: 7/25/03

  EDITORIAL:
  Speak the truth or show love? Why can't we do both?

  The folks in Chama, N.M., won't forget Ben Martinez's funeral mass any time soon.

  About 200 mourners gathered in the sanctuary of St. Patrick Catholic Church after Martinez died at age 80 last summer. Chances are, they expected to hear the priest, Scott Mansfield, eulogize Martinez as a lifelong Catholic who served his community as a town councilman.

  Instead, according to members of the Martinez family, Mansfield stamped their recently departed loved one's passport to hell.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Police identify body of Dennehy; Baylor teammate Dotson held_81103

  Posted: 7/29/03

  Police identify body of Dennehy;
  Baylor teammate Dotson held

  By Hannah Lodwick

  Associated Baptist Press

  WACO, Texas (ABP)—Authorities have positively identified the body of missing Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  CYBERCOLUMN: From a rock house_duncan_81103

  Posted 7/29/03
  

  CYBERCOLUMN:
  From a rock house

  By John Duncan

  I am sitting here under the old oak tree, pondering an old rock house. An old rock house sits in Pilot Point. The old rock house might be down some dirt road or out in the country or on an asphalt road near the center of town. I know not where that house sits. I do know that on Sept. 14, 1940, Aunt Essie delivered her nephew, Cordell. Cordell had a last name—Parker. That rock house served as conduit of education, values and spiritual roots.

  Not long ago, a speech teacher named Cordell Parker died. Cordell taught at Tarrant County College and served as an educator for over 40 years. Today people change jobs faster than a lightning strike. Forty years at the same task and purpose occurs to me as a remarkable feat. In the Summer of 1980, Cordell served as my speech teacher. He loved talking about life’s most basic commodity—communication. Communication makes the world go around. Today S-P-E-E-C-H is on my mind.

  JOHN DUNCAN

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Dennehy services set_81103

  Posted:8/4/03

  Dennehy services set

  A funeral service for Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy will be held at 11 a.m. Pacific Time Thursday, Aug. 7, at the Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose, Calif.

  Cards may be sent to: Family of Patrick Dennehy, c/o Jubilee Christian Center, 175 Nortech Parkway, San Jose, Calif. 95134.

  The university will hold a campus memorial service for Dennehy at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, in the Truett Seminary Chapel on the Waco campus.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Commentary: God’s man for two seminaries_stone_81103

  Posted 8/5/03
  

  Commentary:
  God's man for two seminaries

  By Ted Stone

  Eleven years ago, area media accounts of the election of Paige Patterson to the presidency of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary carried the prediction by the more ardent detractors that his coming would result in the death of the Southern Baptist seminary, located in Wake Forest, N.C.

  Many denominational loyalists wondered if the hard-driving Texan, who had earned his spurs as a leader in the conservative resurgence, would be a good fit for the more traditional East Coast seminary. After all, he was fresh from the presidency of Criswell College, and some feared that such a background ill-prepared him for the educational challenges of higher education.

  Paige Patterson has been God’s man for the 11 years spent in the town of Wake Forest, and by God’s grace, he will occupy that same special designation at Fort Worth, "God’s man for this special time!"

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Commentary: Other Baptists and bossy preachers _freeman_81103

  Posted 8/5/03
  

  Commentary:
  Other Baptists and bossy preachers

  By Curtis W. Freeman

  Back in 2001, when I still was unpacking boxes from my move to North Carolina from Texas, I received a phone call from the chair of a pulpit committee. "Can you send us a pastor?" asked the voice on the line. "We had a bossy preacher from the seminary, but we want a Duke preacher like the one down the road at Hickory Rock." It was a quick lesson on Baptist politics in the North Carolina Piedmont, put in cornbread language.

  Twenty years ago, things were different. In the Southeast, there was pretty much only one theological school Baptist churches turned to when it came to finding a preacher–Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. But that was before the "conservative resurgence" of the Southern Baptist Convention, also known by moderate Baptists as the "fundamentalist takeover."

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Cobb leaving CBF leadership_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Cobb leaving CBF leadership

  ATLANTA (ABP)–Reba Cobb, chief operating officer of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, will leave CBF Sept. 1 to become religious action director for the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C.

  Founded in 1973, the Children's Defense Fund is a private non-profit organization that advocates for children's issues.

  Cobb, 60, has been with the CBF since 2001. She serves as coordinator for the organization's Resource Center in Atlanta and supervises the 52-person staff.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Baylor chaplains honor volunteer for service_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Baylor chaplains honor volunteer for service

  By John Hall

  Texas Baptist Communications

  DALLAS–Baylor University Medical Center chaplains honored a volunteer for completing the Baptist General Convention of Texas Hands-On Ministry training classes with praise and a certificate.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Education journal studies Baptist governance_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Education journal studies Baptist governance

  By John Pierce

  Baptists Today

  Tension that sometimes leads to separation between Baptist-related colleges and state Baptist conventions was the focus of a July 4 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The writer looked to Georgia and Missouri for the latest examples to support her notion that colleges and conventions are increasingly at odds over trustee control and academic freedom.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• House amendments called political grandstanding_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  House amendments called
  political grandstanding

  By Hannah Lodwick

  Associated Baptist Press

  WASHINGTON (ABP)–The U.S. House of Representatives has approved two amendments to a spending bill that are intended to protect the Ten Commandments and Pledge of Allegiance.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Commission magazine remembered for influence_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Commission magazine remembered for influence

  By Craig Bird

  Associated Baptist Press

  RICHMOND, Va. (ABP)–The Commission no longer goes to the ends of the earth–at least not the printed Southern Baptist version. What that means for Southern Baptists' efforts to carry out the Great Commission remains to be seen.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge