Paige Patterson installed as president at Southwestern Seminary_102003

Posted: 10/23/03

Paige Patterson installed
as president at Southwestern Seminary

FORT WORTH (BP)–Paige Patterson was inaugurated eighth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Oct. 21 with a vow to embody the standards set by the seminary's founders.

"We are headed to a full and thorough reaffirmation of the doctrine of B.H. Carroll and the founders," Patterson said during the ceremony at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth. "We are headed to the reaffirmation of the centrality and of the incarnation of the atonement of Christ as the essential bedrock of Christianity."

During a prayer of dedication at his inauguration as the eighth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Paige Patterson is surrounded by family and friends. Left to right are daughter and son-in-law Carmen and Mark Howell, wife Dorothy Patterson, son and daughter-in-law Armour and Rachel Patterson, Southern Baptist Convention President Jack Graham and immediate past seminary President Kenneth Hemphill. (BP Photo)

The seminary also is headed to a reaffirmation of Anabaptist reformation principles, of a church of "twice-born" men and women who bear witness of their faith through believer's baptism by immersion and a disciplined church membership, he said.

09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge

Tragedy reminds Biloxi Christians they need God and each other

Posted: 9/19/05

Tragedy reminds Biloxi Christians
they need God and each other

By Dee Ann Campbell

Associated Baptist Press

BILOXI, Miss. (ABP)—”I’d been teaching others that we need to ask God to give us a spirit of brokenness and a heart to lean on him, no matter the circumstances,” said Ashley Austin, associate pastor at First Baptist Church of Biloxi.

09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge

Victims of 1998 San Antonio flood empathize with Katrina evacuees

Posted: 9/19/05

Victims of 1998 San Antonio flood
empathize with Katrina evacuees

By Craig Bird

Baptist Child & Family Services

SAN ANTONIO—Amanda Fox was watching television with her mom when a story about a young father and his two-month old son grabbed her attention.

09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge

Disaster brought unlikely volunteers together

Posted: 9/19/05

Disaster brought unlikely volunteers together

By Robert Marus

Associated Baptist Press

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. (ABP)—Mark Griffo describes himself as “a spiritual person, but not a religious person.” He probably never imagined he would find himself sweating in a poor Alabama hamlet, working with a bunch of Baptists to minister to desperately needy people.

09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge

Gideons salvage Bibles and give them to survivors

Posted: 9/19/05

Gideons salvage Bibles and give them to survivors

By Dee Ann Campbell

Associated Baptist Press

GULFPORT, Miss. (ABP)—When the casinos first began to open in Gulfport in the early ’90s, most area Christians saw them merely as a detriment. Wallace Majors also saw them as an opportunity, a chance to reach more people with the Word of God.

09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge

Catholic nurse joins Baptist Katrina relief effort

Posted: 9/19/05

Catholic nurse joins Baptist Katrina relief effort

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

SAN ANTONIO—Sheri Fanning was supposed to travel to New Orleans at the end of the month for a business conference. Instead, she traversed the nation to find a taste of Crescent City in the home of the Alamo.

09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baptist Message board moves paper under Louisiana convention control

Posted: 9/19/05

Baptist Message board moves paper
under Louisiana convention control

By Lacy Thompson

Louisiana Baptist Message

ALEXANDRIA, La. (ABP)—Just 14 weeks after rejecting the idea, trustees of the Baptist Message of Louisiana voted 6-1 Aug. 30 to dissolve their board and move the newspaper under the control of the Executive Board of the Louisiana Baptist Convention.

09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge

Court finds Pledge of Allegiance unconstituional

Posted: 9/19/05

Court finds Pledge of Allegiance unconstituional

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—Once again, a federal court in California has found the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional because the oath affirms that the United States is “under God.”

09/19/2005 - By John Rutledge

Right or Wrong? Plagiarizing sermons

Posted: 9/16/05

RIGHT OR WRONG?
Plagiarizing sermons

I think my pastor has been preaching some sermons he downloaded from the Internet and took from books. Should this be considered plagiarism? And if so, why is it wrong?

09/16/2005 - By John Rutledge

Longtime leaders receive Heritage Awards

Posted: 9/16/05

Longtime leaders receive Heritage Awards

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

DALLAS–A retired missionary to Vietnam, a Hispanic Texas Baptist leader, two former grocery store executives and a Christian ethicist received top honors at the 2005 Texas Baptist Heritage awards banquet.

09/16/2005 - By John Rutledge

Katrina evacuees consider Baptist encampments a godsend

Posted: 9/16/05

Katrina evacuees consider
Baptist encampments a godsend

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

NEWTON–When Hurricane Katrina neared New Orleans, Ella Robinson knew she had to leave. She loaded her car and drove west through wooded Louisiana for 18 straight hours. Fatigue set in after she crossed the border into Texas.

09/16/2005 - By John Rutledge

Volunteers help displaced Louisianan contact his wife

Posted: 9/16/05

Volunteers help displaced
Louisianan contact his wife

By Craig Bird

Baptist Child & Family Services

SAN ANTONIO–McKinnley Pittman lost all his phone numbers in the post-Katrina flood. For eight days, he didn't know if he also had lost his wife.

09/16/2005 - By John Rutledge