TBM teams in place for Rita landfall

Posted: 9/23/05

TBM teams in place for Rita landfall

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

DALLAS – Texas Baptist Men disaster relief teams are moving into strategic positions where they can begin serve as quickly as possible after Hurricane Rita makes landfall.

09/23/2005 - By John Rutledge

Cyber Column by Jeanie Miley: No cotton-candy faith

Posted: 9/23/05

CYBER COLUMN:
No cotton-candy faith

By Jeanie Miley

When I was a child, my parents took me to the Texas State Fair, and quickly, I spotted the cotton candy.

Finally, my dad gave me some money, and I got in line at the cotton candy stand, hardly able to contain myself with the anticipation of that pink confection. Apparently, the ecstasy on my face turned to disbelief as I filled my mouth with what I thought was going to be the best thing I’d ever tasted.

09/23/2005 - By John Rutledge

Full text of Jimmy Carter’s address at Baptist World Alliance meeting

Posted: 9/23/05

Full text of Jimmy Carter's address
at Baptist World Alliance meeting

This is the complete text of an address by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to delegates at the Baptist World Centenary Congress in Birmingham, England, in July 2005.

By Jimmy Carter

Many of you may be asking why a former politician is giving a Bible lecture to an assembly of highly qualified Christian leaders. My only credential is experience. I began teaching Bible lessons as a young midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, and have continued this practice for the past 62 years now as a deacon at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia.

09/23/2005 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for Oct. 2: God gives victory when given the opportunity

Posted: 9/23/05

BaptistWay Bible Series for Oct. 2

God gives victory when given the opportunity

• Joshua 9:3-15; 10:6-14, 40-42

By Ronnie Prevost

09/23/2005 - By John Rutledge

Family Bible Series for Oct. 2: Living a holy life in an unholy world

Posted: 9/23/05

Family Bible Series for Oct. 2

Living a holy life in an unholy world

• Ephesians 1:1-14

By Donald Raney

09/23/2005 - By John Rutledge

Explore the Bible Series for Oct. 2: No boasting, salvation comes through grace

Posted: 9/23/05

Explore the Bible Series for Oct. 2

No boasting, salvation comes through grace

• Romans 3:21-28; 4:1-2,18-25

By Trey Turner

09/23/2005 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay taps $6 million for relief funds

Posted: 9/22/05

LifeWay taps $6 million for relief funds

By Rob Phillips

Baptist Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—Trustees of LifeWay Christian Resources unanimously voted to authorize the company’s executive leaders to use $6 million in reserve funds to help Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

09/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baptist mobile emergency room treats victims in Mississippi town

Posted: 9/22/05

Baptist mobile emergency room
treats victims in Mississippi town

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (ABP)—For residents of this coastal town devastated by Hurricane Katrina, seeing their hospital disabled by the storm only added to their desperation. So when Ed Tate and other disaster-relief workers set up a makeshift emergency room in the hospital parking lot, it was a welcome sight in Bay St. Louis.

09/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

Rita causes universities to cancel classes

Posted: 9/22/05

Rita causes universities to cancel classes

Two Texas Baptist universities have cancelled classes in anticipation of Hurricane Rita, and one has evacuated its campus.

Houston Baptist University will be closed Sept. 22, Sept. 23 and Sept. 26 due to Hurricane Rita, and students are being evacuated from the campus. All classes and campus events are cancelled for those days. HBU anticipates reopening campus housing Sept. 26, university officials said.

Baylor University in Waco will cancel classes Sept. 23, along with all campus events and programs scheduled through Sept. 25.

09/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

BGCT lining up relief volunteers to respond to Hurricane Rita

Posted: 9/21/05

BGCT lining up relief volunteers
to respond to Hurricane Rita

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

DALLAS—With Hurricane Katrina fresh on their minds, Baptist General Convention of Texas leaders are preparing relief resources to serve as quickly as possible if Hurricane Rita strikes along the Gulf Coast.

09/21/2005 - By John Rutledge

Roberts avoids disclosing opinion on controversial questions

Posted: 9/21/05

Roberts avoids disclosing
opinion on controversial questions

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, in three long days of questioning before a Senate panel Sept. 13-15, danced delicately around some of the most controversial legal questions of our time—including abortion, gay rights and the proper relationship between church and state.

09/21/2005 - By John Rutledge

EDITORIAL: For the love of Baylor …

Posted: 9/16/05

EDITORIAL: For the love of Baylor …

For the love of Baylor University and the well-being of Texas Baptists, the Baylor board of regents must rise to the occasion created by presidential peril and uncertainty. Baylor desperately needs responsible regents–36 statespeople who will lay aside pride, ambition, politics and animus for the love of this 160-year-old school, whose grand legacy and promising future rest upon their shoulders.

They should join their hearts and minds and spirits to elect a unifying president who can heal the wounds in the “Baylor family,” particularly reconciling faculty with faculty and alumni with alumni. When a typical university seeks a president, people who love the school call for a visionary leader who can guide the institution to academic heights, economic vitality and other grand goals. People who love Baylor want all this, and more. But such loftiness will be unthinkable if the regents present a president who will not or cannot restore relationships and build a consensus among all Baylor constituencies.

So much is at stake with Baylor's presidency that regents should consider their reputations at stake as well. If they cannot achieve consensus and elect a unifying president, their stewardship of Baylor will be seen as a failure.

09/20/2005 - By John Rutledge