Book Reviews_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Book Reviews

Safe Haven Marriage: Building a Relationship You Want to Come Home To
by Archibald D. Hart and Sharon Hart Morris (W Publishing Group)

This father-daughter team presents a readable guide to deepening intimacy in marriage and repairing emotional wounds that struggling marriages often create.

“Safe Haven marriages” describes relationships built on trust, emotional availability and sensitive responsiveness. Hart and Morris provide a helpful exposition of these qualities, enabling couples to understand how we emotionally connect with others (attachment theory) and how these emotional connections can be nurtured, strained or broken in marriage. The ideas and suggestions are clearly and simply, helping professionals and nonprofessionals understand the concepts and how they relate to building emotional connections. Enriched with case studies, readers can identify with the struggles of the couples featured in each section of the book.

01/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for Jan. 16: There is a place for everyone in God’

Posted: 1/10/05
LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for Jan. 16

There is a place for everyone in God’s family

By Pakon Chan

Chinese Baptist Church, Arlington

In our society, many people are helpless and lonely. Many of them are under the bondage of poverty, addictions, bad communal or peer influences, and discrimination. This group of people sometimes gets less attention from churches and Christians, even though we provide various social services for them. A big, beautiful middle-class church will donate a lot of food and clothing to the poor but may not welcome poor people into their fellowship and church.

01/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Dispaches from Sri Lanka_12405

Posted: 1/12/05 Rubble left by the tsunamis is all that remains in many areas near Batticaloa in east Sri Lanka. Texas Baptist Men volunteers are feeding and purifying water in…

01/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Louisiana College picks new president amid controversy_12405

Posted: 1/12/05

Louisiana College trustees pick
new president amid controversy

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

PINEVILLE, La. (ABP)—Trustees of embattled Louisiana College will meet Jan. 17 to try again to elect a president, but they likely will be sued to prevent him from taking office.

01/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

At 100, BWA rejoices in its unity, Lotz says_12405

Posted: 1/12/05

At 100, BWA rejoices in its unity, Lotz says

By Lindsay Bergstrom

Associated Baptist Press

MCLEAN, Va. (ABP) – Through 100 years that have seen some of the most dramatic changes in history, worldwide Baptists have emerged with a spirit of unity, according Denton Lotz, general secretary for Baptist World Alliance.

01/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

How to give to tsunami relief_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

How to give to tsunami relief

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

When it comes to disaster relief, Baptists are bargain shoppers. That's the driving thought behind Baptists seeking financial donations rather than supplies.

01/11/2005 - By John Rutledge

No more volunteers needed for tsunami relief, but be prepared, leaders say_11005

Posted: 1/11/05

No more volunteers needed for tsunami
relief, but be prepared, leaders say

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

Volunteers are not needed to help yet with the relief effort in South Asia, but they need to be prepared for action.

01/11/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baylor social work staff stitches gift for orphans_11005

Posted: 12/24/04

Baylor social work staff stitches gift for orphans

By Julie Carlson

Baylor University

WACO—Some babies and toddlers in the Ukraine soon will have some warm clothes for the winter, thanks to a group of women at Baylor University.

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

Texas Baptists join worldwide Tsunami relief response_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Texas Baptists join worldwide Tsunami relief response

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

Texas Baptist Men volunteers are joining Baptist World Aid and other humanitarian agencies in what many observers have called the largest international disaster relief effort in history, after a series of earthquake-spawned waves struck 12 countries in South Asia and Northeast Africa the day after Christmas.

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

’20-somethings’ follow own path to faith_11005

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'20-somethings' follow own path to faith

By Nancy Haught

Religion News Service

PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS)–In Christianity, the image of the shepherd leading sheep is a powerful one. For generations, the same could be said of parents leading their children to their religion.

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

2004 left America seeing red, observers say_11005

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2004 left America seeing red, observers say

By Kevin Eckstrom

Religion News Service

WASHINGTON (RNS)–Red, color experts say, is a serious color that denotes passion, heat, importance, even danger. Power ties, celebrity carpets and stop signs are all red. Red says, “Stop what you're doing and pay attention.”

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

Expressing faith through visual images_11005

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Expressing faith through visual images

By G. Jeffrey Macdonald

Religion News Service

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS)–As an evangelical preacher, Bruce Marcey belongs to a sermon-centered spiritual tradition that took root nearly 500 years ago with the Bible, the pulpit and the elimination of all distractions–including art.

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge