2007 Archives
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Texas teens minister, from Waco to Windhoek
Posted: 7/27/07
Waco students Maggie Blair (third from left), Aeriel Butler (front center) and Kirsten Verett (back row, second from right) make new friends after performing music, skits and testimonies at a school assembly in Windhoek, Namibia. (Photos by Paul Carr) Texas teens minister, from Waco to Windhoek
By Paul Carr
Special to the Baptist Standard
WINDHOEK, Namibia—Thirteen Waco teenagers paused as they entered a walled compound in Nambia, scanning the teeming chaos that turned a patch of dirt and concrete into a playground. Within just a moment or two, children spied the strangers and swarmed them, latching onto their legs and stretching out their arms to be picked up.
Some of the teens knelt in the dirt, hugging two or three at a time, while others scooped up love-starved children giving them rides on their shoulders.
07/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Using Bible as his guide, man searches for oil in Israel
Posted: 7/27/07
Using Bible as his guide,
man searches for oil in IsraelBy Matt Kennedy
Associated Baptist Press
DALLAS (ABP)—As much of the world continues to wait for signs of peace in Israel, John Brown continues to wait for signs of oil beneath it.
Brown is the chairman and founder of Zion Oil and Gas, Inc., a company searching for significant petroleum deposits in northern Israel. Brown says he believes Scripture points to the discovery of oil in the region.
John Brown says scripture points ot oil located in Israel. 07/27/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Reformers blog wins endorsement from some SBC leaders
Posted: 7/27/07
Reformers blog wins endorsement
from some SBC leadersBy Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
NEW YORK (ABP)—In a ringing show of support, several prominent Baptist leaders have publicly endorsed a groundbreaking blog operated by reform-minded pastors within the Southern Baptist Convention.
The endorsers include the presidents of three SBC entities and a college president—Morris Chapman, president of the SBC’s Executive Committee; Thom Rainer, president of LifeWay Christian Resources; Jerry Rankin, president of the SBC’s International Mission Board; and David Dockery, president of Union University.
New blogging site has support from SBC leaders. 07/27/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Supporters defend seminary homemaking class
Posted: 7/27/07
Supporters defend seminary homemaking class
By Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
FORT WORTH (ABP)—Recent criticism of a homemaking degree at a Southern Baptist seminary has brought some conservatives out swinging, calling the critics “sanctimonious liberals.”
The tiff emerged after a guest opinion piece by Baptist ethicist Robert Parham appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In the essay, Parham criticized a new homemaking course program at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. Parham is the executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics.
07/27/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Church corruption, financial scandals live on long past Bakkers
Posted: 7/27/07
Church corruption, financial
scandals live on long past BakkersBy Matt Kennedy
Associated Baptist Press
DALLAS (ABP)—For some, Tammy Faye Messner’s death July 20 stirred fond memories of a joyful Christian TV personality, and for others, painful memories of the sex-and-money scandal that destroyed her former husband’s popular Christian television network. Her death also reminds Christians that financial scandals are still very much alive in the church.
In 1989, Jim Bakker was convicted of 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy and sentenced to 45 years in prison (he served five). Messner—known as Tammy Faye Bakker before her remarriage—was not included in the indictment, which accused Jim Bakker of conspiring to defraud partners of his PTL cable TV network out of $158 million.
07/27/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baugh family challenge nets about $1.2 million in two weeks for agency
Posted: 7/27/07
Baugh family challenge nets about
$1.2 million in two weeks for agency
By Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (ABP)—A Texas Baptist family’s spontaneous challenge to jump-start a Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty capital campaign netted the organization nearly $1.2 million dollars in just a couple of weeks.
Brent Walker, executive director of the Washington-based advocacy group, announced in a July 24 e-mail to supporters that a matching-funds challenge from the Baugh family of San Antonio has been wildly successful. In little more than two weeks, donors gave or pledged a total of $688,372 in response. According to Walker, an unnamed benefactor who gave a $200,000 gift requested it not be matched, meaning the challenge raised $1,176,745.46.
07/27/2007 - By John Rutledge
