2005 Archives

Wayland students spend break ministering in New Orleans

Posted: 11/04/05

Wayland University students spent their fall break helping a family in Graford whose home burned. Others renovated a flood-damaged home in New Orleans.

Wayland students spend break
ministering in New Orleans

By Teresa Young

Wayland Baptist University

Five Wayland Baptist University students and three adult sponsors traded in the chance to rest over fall break for an opportunity to serve families devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

11/04/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baylor regents consider candidate for school presidency

Posted: 11/04/05

Baylor regents consider
candidate for school presidency

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

WACO–Baylor University regents were summoned to a called board meeting Nov. 4 to consider a unanimous recommendation from the school's presidential search committee.

11/04/2005 - By John Rutledge

Cyber Column by Brett Younger: Kind things to say to clueless people

Posted: 11/04/05

CYBER COLUMN:
'Anybody could have done it,' 'It really is confusing' & other kind things to say to clueless people

By Brett Younger

I’m not sure how this happened. This is so not me. In August when I received my car registration renewal I immediately sent it in. I was pleased to receive my sticker well before the expiration date.

That’s when the story gets fuzzy. As best I can reconstruct it, I inexplicably scraped off the sticker that looked most like the one that I had received in the mail and replaced it, without recognizing that I now had two registration stickers and no inspection sticker.

Brett Younger

11/04/2005 - By John Rutledge

Storylist for 10/31/05 issue

Storylist for week of 10/31/05 GO TO SECTIONS: • Around Texas • Baptists • Faith In Action • Departments • Opinion • Bible Study •…

11/04/2005 - By John Rutledge

Right or Wrong? Embryonic stem cells

Posted: 11/04/05

RIGHT OR WRONG?
Embryonic stem cells

I read where a Christian went to China to get treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease. Problem is, the treatment uses stem cells from aborted fetuses. According to the Chinese government policy of one child per family, these babies were going to be aborted anyway. Is this terminally ill Christian wrong for getting help in this way?

11/04/2005 - By John Rutledge

North Carolina convention plans restrictions on ‘gay-friendly’ churches

Posted: 11/03/05

North Carolina convention plans
restrictions on 'gay-friendly' churches

By Steve DeVane

North Carolina Biblical Recorder

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (ABP)—Baptists in North Carolina next month will be asked to place new restrictions on churches that condone homosexuality, creating perhaps the most specific ban of gay-friendly churches in Southern Baptist life.

The president of a conservative group within the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina said Oct. 18 he will propose an amendment to the convention’s articles of incorporation that would tighten requirements for church membership in the state convention to eliminate “ambiguity” on the gay issue.

11/03/2005 - By John Rutledge

Iraqi constitution has double vision on human rights

Posted: 11/03/05

Iraqi constitution has double
vision on human rights

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—Iraq’s new Constitution sets forth two competing visions of democracy and human rights, some religious-freedom experts insist.

The document “sets forth two competing and diametrically opposed visions of society—one based on religious freedom … and another vision of society based on a hierarchy of group rights on Islamic law,” said Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House. Shea is also vice chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

11/03/2005 - By John Rutledge

Controversy stirs over Katrina religious school tuition grants bill

Posted: 11/03/05

Controversy stirs over Katrina
religious school tuition grants bill

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge continues to muddy the line between church and state, as administration officials and some members of Congress are proposing aid to religious institutions in the disaster’s wake.

A group of senators—including some who normally oppose public funds for private schools—have introduced a bill that would provide tuition grants to private and religious schools that have taken in students evacuated from their own schools in New Orleans and other affected parts of the region.

11/03/2005 - By John Rutledge

Vernon to be BGCT vice presidential nominee

Posted: 9/16/05

Vernon to be BGCT vice presidential nominee

By Marv Knox

Editor

LEVELLAND–A South Plains pastor with extensive involvement in Baptist General Convention of Texas affairs will be nominated as first vice president of the convention this fall.

11/02/2005 - By John Rutledge