2004 Archives
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Baptist Briefs_100404
Posted: 10/01/04
Baptist Briefs
Thomas accepts seminary post. Claude Thomas has resigned as pastor of First Baptist Church in Euless to serve as chaplain at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and special assistant to President Paige Patterson. He also will assist in the seminary's doctor of ministry degree program and student recruitment. Thomas earned two degrees from Southwestern Seminary and is former president of the seminary's National Alumni Association.
Virginia WMU rejects SBC position. Leaders of Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia have adopted a declaration endorsing the "diverse and unlimited" Christian vocations of women and rejecting both the Southern Baptist Convention's official opposition to women pastors as expressed in the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message statement and the refusal of the convention's North American Mission Board to endorse women as military and prison chaplains. The Virginia WMU trustees and board of advisers unanimously approved the "Declaration of the Dignity of Women" during their annual meeting. The full text of the declaration may be read at www.wmu-va.org.
Baylor researcher joins seminary faculty. William Dembski, associate research professor at Baylor University's Institute for Faith and Learning, has been named director of the new Center for Science and Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Southern Seminary President Al Mohler described Dembski as "a primary theorist of intelligent design, as well as a primary opponent of Darwinism and evolutionary theory." Dembski previously taught at Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Dallas.
10/01/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Presidential candidates experience, express faith differently_100404
Posted: 10/01/04
President George W. Bush, shown here at Union Bethel African Methodist Church in New Orleans, says he cannot separate his faith from his job as president.(RNS/John McCusker Photo) Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, shown here at Second Ebenezer Baptist Church in Detroit, considers his faith a deeply personal matter.(AP/Charles Krupa Photo) Presidential candidates experience, express faith differently
By Mark O'Keefe
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)–One candidate is from the Bible Belt and likes to tell how God redeemed him from a life of destructive drinking, which made him a better husband and public servant for such a time as this.
10/01/2004 - By John Rutledge
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