2005 Archives
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Narnia movie prompts renewed debate about Lewis
Posted: 12/16/05
Narnia movie prompts
renewed debate about LewisBy Karen Long
C.S. Lewis–Oxford professor, Christian apologist and author of beloved children's stories–continues to defy easy categorization. Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)–At a desperate moment in the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, as the lion's tortured, lifeless body lies on a stone table, the writer pauses over the stricken child characters, Lucy and Susan.
12/16/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Narnia movie echoes books’ themes
Posted: 12/16/05
Narnia movie echoes books' themes
By Ted Parks
Associated Baptist Press
Whether viewers find a distinctly Christian message in the new movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe depends on whether they found one in the C.S. Lewis fantasy novel it's based on, the movie's creators insist.
12/16/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist women knit scarves, bake cookies for exotic dancers
Posted: 12/16/05
Volunteers at Central Baptist Church in Round Rock knit scarves for women working in 'gentlemen's clubs.' Baptist women knit scarves,
bake cookies for exotic dancersBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
ROUND ROCK–Cindy Stokes is making the Christmas season a little warmer for a group of women who work in sexually oriented businesses.
12/16/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 12/16/05
Texas Tidbits
Baptist Credit Union marks 50th anniversary. Baptist Credit Union–a member-owned financial cooperative–recently marked 50 years of service to Texas Baptist churches and institutions. Ten employees of Baptist Memorial Hospital in San Antonio formed the credit union in 1955, and in 1977, the San Antonio-based credit union merged with the Dallas-based Baptist Employees Credit Union of Texas. Today, it includes more than 7,100 members, serving employees of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, its institutions and associations, and members of churches in Dallas Baptist Association and San Antonio Baptist Association. For more information, call (800) 222-2328.
Baylor students receive book at chapel. Baylor University distributed about 3,000 copies of Understanding God's Will: How to Hack the Equation Without Formulas by Kyle Lake to students attending chapel services recently. Lake died Oct. 30 when he was electrocuted while performing a baptism at University Baptist Church in Waco, where he was pastor seven years. "Kyle Lake did a great job addressing purpose and meaning of life, and I wanted the students to understand what he thought about God's will for our lives," said Byron Weathersbee, interim university chaplain. A group of Baylor alumni who were part of a supper club with Lake helped cover the cost of the book distribution. Relevant Publishing also made "quite a sacrificial gift" to get the books into students' hands, Weathersbee added.
Racial reconciliation workshop slated. Mission Waco will sponsor a Martin Luther King weekend church and community workshop on racial reconciliation Jan. 15-16 at the Meyer Center for Urban Ministries, 1226 Washington in Waco. Featured speakers include George Yancey, sociology professor at the University of North Texas; Glen Kehrein, executive director of Circle Urban Ministries in Chicago; and Alcides Guajardo, president of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas. Admission is free, but reservations are requested. Contact Jimmy_Dorrell@baylor.edu or call (254) 753-4900.
12/16/2005 - By John Rutledge
Mickie Chitwood to Ephesus Church in Jewett as music minister. 
