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Kimball responds to ‘Allah’ controversy
Updated: 5/11/07
Kimball responds to 'Allah' controversy
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
A religion professor’s statements at a Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission conference that Christianity and Islam talk about “the same God” prompted two associations of churches to ask Baptist General Convention of Texas leaders to clarify the convention’s doctrinal position.
At a February Christian Life Commission conference in Austin, Charles Kimball of Wake Forest University said regarding Islamic teaching about Allah: “It’s the same God that Jews and Christians are talking about.”
Charles Kimball, religion professor at Wake Forest University, says his address was not significantly different than “anything I’ve been saying for 30-something years.” 05/10/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Evangelicals unite to push immigration reform
Posted: 5/10/07
Evangelicals unite to push immigration reform
By Robert Marus
ABP Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON (ABP)—A broad variety of evangelicals and other Christian groups and leaders launched a new campaign May 7 to get Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
With a Washington press conference and ads in two major Capitol Hill publications, Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform launched a campaign that will include both a media strategy in states with large numbers of immigrants and a grassroots organizing campaign.
05/10/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Ethiopian child finds a place to call home
Posted: 5/04/07
Ethiopian child finds a place to call home
By Miranda Bradley
Children At Heart Foundation
Ask 8-year-old Israel about his family, he becomes quiet. Already shy, the boy looks down at his small hands, quietly refusing to respond. But ask him about Texas Baptist Children’s Home, and he has no trouble expressing his joy.
It’s a far cry from two years ago, when Israel arrived from Ethiopia—unable to speak English and unable to find a place to call home.
Eight-year-old Israel from Ethiopia. 05/04/2007 - By John Rutledge
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UMHB students learn as they serve through Habitat
Posted: 5/04/07
Students from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor learned carpentry as they helped on a Habitat for Humanity project. UMHB students learn as
they serve through Habitat
By Jennifer Sicking
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
BELTON—When Sherman Wilkins participated in a University of Mary Hardin-Baylor outreach program his first year, he “fell in love” with the idea of voluntering with Habitat for Humanity. Never mind he didn’t know much about using a hammer and saw.
“My first day on a habitat job site, I was clueless on what services the different tools functioned for,” said Wilkins, a senior from Hamlet, N.C., who is now president of the UMHB Habitat for Humanity chapter. “During every scheduled volunteer build, Habitat provides supervisors to oversee the construction in which they educate inexperienced individuals on the proper technique for the use the tools.”
05/04/2007 - By John Rutledge
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CYBER COLUMN by Jinny Henson: Tribute to Mom
Posted: 5/04/07
CYBER COLUMN: Tribute to Mom
By Jinny Henson
Susana Wesley, mother of Methodist Church founders John and Charles, often is credited for raising children who would, well, launch a denomination. Intelligent and stern, she wore her hair in a holiness bun and baked bread at 4 am. My mother wore Loving Care # 2247 and fed us biscuits during the 1977-78 school year because Food-a-rama had them on sale. Legend has it that Susana delivered sermons and prayed for hours for her 10 children. My mom preached at the three of us and prayed for a week that toilet would heal itself before she’d call the plumber.
Jinny Henson Very ready to laugh at life in general and herself in particular, my mom never took herself too seriously. You never can escape the blessing that having a secure woman for a mother brings. It permeates your soul in a lasting way like Ritz dye to white capri pants, leaving not one fiber untouched. I never heard her agonize over what to wear or wallow in self-pity. She was decisive, intuitive, strong and ever amused at how God had put her children together.
05/04/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State
Posted: 4/27/07
Around the State
• Two vision trips for border/Mexico missions are fast approaching. The Querétaro vision trip starts with a May 2 flight to Mexico City and participants return May 5. A trip to Oaxaca will be from May 20 to 23. For more information about the trips and available scholarships, call (888) 333-2363.
• Dallas will participate in the National Day of Prayer May 3 with an old-fashioned tent revival on Gaston Avenue at Haskell at 11:45 a.m. Daily tent meetings are being held there morning and evening until then. First Church in Dallas and Prestonwood Church in Plano are among the churches and organizations sponsoring the effort.
The B.H. Carroll Institute conferred its first certified degrees to Larry Howell (center left), diploma in Christian ministry, and Betty Dilday (center right), master of arts in religion. Participating in the ceremony were Bruce Corley (left), senior fellow and president of the institute, and Russell Dilday, chancellor of the school. For more information about the school, call (817) 274-4284. • Panfork Camp in Wellington will hold its senior adult day May 4. Registration begins at 8:45 a.m. and events will continue through the middle of the afternoon. Lunch will be served. The cost is $10. For more information, call (806) 665-3152.
• The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor will hold its 10th annual Senior Saints Summit May 14-17 for people 55 and older. Participants live on campus for four days of seminars, singing, worship, fellowship and Bible study. Wallace Davis will be the summit preacher, Dan Woolridge the Bible teacher and Larry Putman the worship leader. Other highlights include daily morning devotionals, special interest breakout sessions, fellowship times, a talent show and games. The cost is $135 per person or $250 per married couple to stay on campus, or $95 for commuters staying off campus. For more information, call (254) 295-4606.
05/03/2007 - By John Rutledge
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