2005 Archives
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EDITORIAL: For the love of Baylor …
Posted: 9/16/05
EDITORIAL: For the love of Baylor …
For the love of Baylor University and the well-being of Texas Baptists, the Baylor board of regents must rise to the occasion created by presidential peril and uncertainty. Baylor desperately needs responsible regents–36 statespeople who will lay aside pride, ambition, politics and animus for the love of this 160-year-old school, whose grand legacy and promising future rest upon their shoulders.
They should join their hearts and minds and spirits to elect a unifying president who can heal the wounds in the “Baylor family,” particularly reconciling faculty with faculty and alumni with alumni. When a typical university seeks a president, people who love the school call for a visionary leader who can guide the institution to academic heights, economic vitality and other grand goals. People who love Baylor want all this, and more. But such loftiness will be unthinkable if the regents present a president who will not or cannot restore relationships and build a consensus among all Baylor constituencies.
So much is at stake with Baylor's presidency that regents should consider their reputations at stake as well. If they cannot achieve consensus and elect a unifying president, their stewardship of Baylor will be seen as a failure.
09/20/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Paige Patterson installed as president at Southwestern Seminary_102003
Posted: 10/23/03
Paige Patterson installed
as president at Southwestern SeminaryFORT WORTH (BP)–Paige Patterson was inaugurated eighth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Oct. 21 with a vow to embody the standards set by the seminary's founders.
"We are headed to a full and thorough reaffirmation of the doctrine of B.H. Carroll and the founders," Patterson said during the ceremony at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth. "We are headed to the reaffirmation of the centrality and of the incarnation of the atonement of Christ as the essential bedrock of Christianity."
During a prayer of dedication at his inauguration as the eighth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Paige Patterson is surrounded by family and friends. Left to right are daughter and son-in-law Carmen and Mark Howell, wife Dorothy Patterson, son and daughter-in-law Armour and Rachel Patterson, Southern Baptist Convention President Jack Graham and immediate past seminary President Kenneth Hemphill. (BP Photo) The seminary also is headed to a reaffirmation of Anabaptist reformation principles, of a church of "twice-born" men and women who bear witness of their faith through believer's baptism by immersion and a disciplined church membership, he said.
09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Tragedy reminds Biloxi Christians they need God and each other
Posted: 9/19/05
Alice Bowman, a volunteer from First Baptist Church, Martinsville, Va., is among those working in disaster relief at First Baptist Church, Biloxi, Miss. (ABP photo by Stretch Ledford) Tragedy reminds Biloxi Christians
they need God and each otherBy Dee Ann Campbell
Associated Baptist Press
BILOXI, Miss. (ABP)—”I’d been teaching others that we need to ask God to give us a spirit of brokenness and a heart to lean on him, no matter the circumstances,” said Ashley Austin, associate pastor at First Baptist Church of Biloxi.
09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Victims of 1998 San Antonio flood empathize with Katrina evacuees
Posted: 9/19/05
Jimmy Fox, in hat, can’t quite figure out all this interest his parents, James and Amanda, are showing this new baby at a BCFS special needs shelter—or why they are giving away his clothes and toys. (BCFS photo) Victims of 1998 San Antonio flood
empathize with Katrina evacueesBy Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
SAN ANTONIO—Amanda Fox was watching television with her mom when a story about a young father and his two-month old son grabbed her attention.
09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Catholic nurse joins Baptist Katrina relief effort
Posted: 9/19/05
Dena Dalton, community ministry/lay mobilization pastor at Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio (back to camera) meets with leaders from Baptist Child & Family Services, Community Bible Church, Oak Hill Church (all in San Antonio) and Resurrection Baptist Church in Schertz about creating and staffing a 200-300 bed shelter for special needs victims of Hurricane Katrina. (BCFS photo by Craig Bird) Catholic nurse joins Baptist Katrina relief effort
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
SAN ANTONIO—Sheri Fanning was supposed to travel to New Orleans at the end of the month for a business conference. Instead, she traversed the nation to find a taste of Crescent City in the home of the Alamo.
09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
