2007 Archives
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Tech students gather at Baptist campus center
Posted: 4/27/07
Tech students gather at Baptist campus center
By Jim White
Virginia Religious Herald
BLACKSBURG, Va. (ABP)—As the sun began to set and the wind continued to howl over a wounded campus and city, Virginia Tech students gathered for prayer, comfort and counseling at the school’s Baptist student center.
Blacksburg, the small city that houses the university’s 26,000-plus students, was even quieter than usual the night after a massacre unprecedented in American history. The gunman, who shot 32 students and professors and then took his own life, also had silenced the usually bustling activity on the commercial strips around the sprawling campus’s edges.
Virginia Tech students who gathered at the Baptist ministry center in Blacksburg cried, prayed and hugged. (Jim White/Religious Herald) 04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Texas students pray, remember peers at Virginia Tech
Posted: 4/27/07
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor student Sarah-Jane Saunders prays for grieving people at Virginia Tech. Several dozen faculty, staff and students gathered at UMHB to hold a special prayer service the day after the deadly shooting at Virginia Tech. (UMHB photo by Randy Yandell) Texas students pray, remember
peers at Virginia TechBy Barbara Bedrick
Texas Baptist Communications
USTIN—A week after the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, Texas Baptist college students continued to gather in chapels, sing tributes and pray for the families of the victims, students, faculty and staff.
In a special tribute to the victims and their families, the Dallas Baptist University Chorale—already scheduled to perform at Washington National Cathedral’s “Texas Day” celebration April 22—was asked to provide prelude music for a procession that included Virginia Tech officials and alumni. They placed 33 candles at the foot of the altar—one for each victim and one for the man who killed them, Seung-Hui Cho.
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• Tech students gather at Baptist campus center
• Texas students pray, remember peers at Virginia Tech04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge
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NO EASY ANSWERS: Campus ministers struggle to explain the inexplicable
Posted: 4/27/07
Grieving students join thousands of their peers in the football stadium at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., for a convocation and speech by President Bush following a shooting rampage on campus. (Newhouse/Matt Rainey/The Star-Ledger) NO EASY ANSWERS:
Campus ministers struggle
to explain the inexplicableBy Kevin Eckstrom
Religion News Service
Sometimes, answers to the tough questions just don’t come, campus ministers at Virginia Tech insist. When they do, they don’t come easily. And they often come up short.
As ministers and counsel-ors descended on Virginia Tech to offer comfort and consolation in the tragedy’s immediate aftermath, they said it was still too early to try to make sense of it all. There will be time enough for that.
See Related Stories:
• NO EASY ANSWERS: Campus ministers struggle to explain the inexplicable
• Six Baptist-affiliated students among 32 dead at Virginia Tech
• Tech students gather at Baptist campus center
• Texas students pray, remember peers at Virginia Tech04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Posted: 4/27/07
Posted: 4/27/07
Book Reviews
By W. Dale Cramer (Bethany House)
What happens when a rough-hewn construction worker becomes a stay-at-home mom? A rollicking good story.
Of course, Mick Brannigan’s first reaction is anything but agreeable when his wife, Layne, asks him to stay home with 4-year-old Dylan, recently diagnosed with sensory integration dysfunction. But a chain of events not unlike those that befell Jonah quickly changes his mind.
04/27/2007 - By John Rutledge
