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Hispanic Texas Baptist Congreso calls for immigration reform
Posted: 4/28/06
Alcides Guajardo (left), president of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas, and Albert Reyes, president of the Baptist University of the Americas, addressed the Texas Baptist Hispanic Youth and Singles Congreso. Hispanic Texas Baptist Congreso
calls for immigration reform
By Eric Guel
Texas Baptist Communications
HOUSTON—Hispanic Texas Baptist youth and single young adults have called for immigration reform.
04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge
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DBU students minister in apartments
Posted: 4/28/06
DBU students minister in apartments
DALLAS—Twelve children gather in one apartment, shoving, climbing and maneuvering around the table, straining to listen to a couple of college students.
Every week, students from Dallas Baptist University take part in missionary journeys like this one to neighborhood apartments, making a practical difference in children’s lives.
“What can you tell me about Egypt?” DBU student Denae Johnson asked, as she held a laptop computer, displaying scenes from her recent trip to the Middle East. Her audience was a dozen youth at an efficiency apartment in Arlington.
Dallas Baptist University students Megan Routh (left) and Denea Johnson share stories from the Bible with children at an Arlington apartment complex. 04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge
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DOWN HOME: Postman delivers tidings of mortality
Posted: 4/28/06
DOWN HOME:
Postman delivers tidings of mortality
Sometimes, our mail carrier is so annoying. If he were a nicer and more thoughtful guy, he would sort through our stack every day and throw away all the junk that obviously doesn’t belong in our mailbox.
Come to think of it, he could provide a terrific public service by surveying his route and trashing stuff we don’t want. You know what I mean: Flyers for aluminum siding and credit cards and time-share condominiums and alternative sources of essential vitamins and nutrients. The only benefit all this mail provides is the exercise I get by carrying it straight from the mailbox by the front curb to the recycling bin in the garage out back.
Initiating a preemptive strike on junk mail would be nice and good, and I’d appreciate it enormously. Conversely, I’d like to see our postal carrier held personally responsible for delivering malicious, offensive and mean-spirited mail.
04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge
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EDITORIAL: ‘Morality’ is more than sex we don’t do
Posted: 4/28/06
EDITORIAL:
‘Morality’ is more than sex we don’t do
The last time we met on this page, we talked about immigration and education. We discussed Texas’ march toward Hispanic-majority status and the necessity of educating Hispanic Texans. Specifically, we looked at two opportunities for improving lives as well as making our state stronger: (a) lowering the Hispanic dropout rate by at least 2 percentage points a year for at least 10 years, and (b) making education at the nine universities affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas accessible to Hispanics.
Elsewhere in that issue of the paper, we reported on how Albert Reyes, president of the Baptist University of the Americas, has called for U.S. immigration policy to reflect Jesus’ demand for justice for all people.
Predictably, some readers appreciated neither the editorial nor Reyes’ remarks. Their complaints followed a familiar theme: The church should take care of poor people, and the state should butt out. Of course, none of the complainers could cite a single church that is providing its prorated share of service to the poor—a proportionate ministry that, if copied by all the other Christian churches in the community, would be sufficient to meet the needs of the very young and very old and the disabled and vulnerable who live there. None of them offered to demonstrate that they have anted-up tithes-and-offerings sufficient to provide their share of their church’s share of all the care they say “the church” is supposed to offer. By the way, I’m batting 1.000 on that request—never have had anyone take me up on it.
04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge
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High Pointe responds to community
Posted: 4/28/06
BGCT Church Starter Roy Cotton and leaders of High Pointe Baptist Church and the Fellowship at High Pointe examine the demographics of their community. High Pointe responds to community
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
CEDAR HILL—The neighborhood around High Pointe Baptist Church is 43 percent African-American, but the church was nearly all Anglo.
04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptist Forum
Posted: 4/28/06
Texas Baptist Forum
Pride in possessions
I was a college sophomore when I bought my first car. It was a black 12-year-old ’41 Ford. Jones Chevrolet in Center stored it for me eight months while I made the down payment on it. It cost me $495, and I couldn’t wait to drive it home.
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“When my soul was troubled, it was Billy I reached out to for advice, for comfort and for prayer. You could say Bill has been the conscience of our nation and sometimes of the world.”George H.W. Bush
Former U.S. president, speaking in College Station as he awarded the George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service to evangelist Billy Graham (Houston Chronicle/RNS)“Academics often think of conservative Christians as rubes and dupes. The reality is that the real movers and shakers behind the evangelical movement are highly educated, thoughtful people with entrepreneurial skills, wealth and extraordinary management savvy.”
Robert Wuthnow
Professor of social sciences at Princeton University, commenting on a comprehensive study by Michael Lindsay, a sociology doctoral student (Princeton Weekly Bulletin/RNS)“What many people find disagreeable about the political use of evil is that it’s rooted in self-righteousness on the part of the speaker. It’s saying we’re entirely different from our enemies without any attempt to understand them.”
Robert Gahl
Professor of ethics and morality at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome (RNS)I painted the dash tomato red and put a wheel cover and steering knob on it before driving it to East Texas Baptist College to show it off. Parking it every day in front of the dining hall assured me that everyone saw it. I was proud of that car!
04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Offering changes lives in Thailand
Posted: 4/28/06
Rick Burnette, (right) CBF Global Missions field personnel, has been using funds from the 2005 Carter Offering to get residency status for hilltribe immigrants in villages in northern Thailand. Offering changes lives in Thailand
By Alison Wingfield
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
ATLANTA—The cost of a typical week’s grocery bill in the United States was all it took to change a life.
04/28/2006 - By John Rutledge
