Future of Baylor 2012–and possibly the school’s president–in hands of regents_72604

Posted: 7/23/04

Future of Baylor 2012–and possibly
the school's president–in hands of regents

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

WACO–Baylor University regents met July 21-23 for a three-day retreat to discuss Baylor 2012–the school's long-range vision–and possibly determine the future of embattled President Robert Sloan.

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

Baptist Briefs_72604

Posted: 7/23/04

Baptist Briefs

Clingenpeel returns to pastorate. Mike Cling-enpeel, editor of Virginia Baptists' newspaper for the past 12 years, will be the next pastor of River Road Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. Clingenpeel will assume the pulpit of one of the most prominent moderate Baptist churches on the East Coast Sept. 7. He left a Franklin, Va., pastorate in 1992 to edit the 176-year-old Religious Herald, newsjournal of the Baptist General Association of Virginia.

Auction benefits CBF missions. A violin and a collectible C.S. Lewis book were sold to the highest bidders at a silent auction during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly in Birmingham, Ala., this summer. The auction raised $18,200 to support ministry projects of CBF Global Missions field personnel around the world. The auction's most valued items were a violin and a 1947 autographed edition of C.S. Lewis' "Miracles: A Preliminary Study." Three other highly-sought items were a painting and two pieces of embroidery by Chinese Christian artist He Qi. He donated his work for the auction as well as a painting to the Fellowship to be displayed in the Atlanta Resource Center.

KCBI, FamilyNet team up. Dallas Christian radio station KCBI and the Southern Baptist Convention's Fort Worth-based FamilyNet television network have formed an alliance to share audio portions of their newscasts. KCBI has won the National Religious Broadcasters' Best News award, several SCRIBE awards for best news on a Christian radio station, and numerous Dallas Press Club Katie awards and Texas Associated Press awards. FamilyNet News is a blend of headlines and stories that affect families. Both news outlets bill themselves safe for children to watch and include "good news" stories with positive endings.

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

Missions offering helps Buckner Border Ministries touch lives along Rio Grande_72604

Posted: 7/23/04

Missions offering helps Buckner Border
Ministries touch lives along Rio Grande

By Mary Crouch

BGCT Summer Intern

PROGRESO–Jorge Zapata knows Texas is a big state. But he believes Texas Baptists from every corner of the state can touch lives in the name of Jesus, even if they never leave home.

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

JIMMY CARTER: Sunday school teacher_72604

Posted: 7/23/04

JIMMY CARTER:
Sunday school teacher

By Shalynn Ford Harvey

Religion News Service

PLAINS, Ga. (RNS)–A little more than 100 miles and several light-years southwest of Atlanta lies a bucolic hamlet surrounded by pine trees, pecan groves and peanut farms.

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

Cartoon_72604

Posted: 7/23/04 Pastor, please give me a noon wake-up call. News of religion, faith, missions, Bible study and Christian ministry among Texas Baptist churches, in the BGCT, the Southern Baptist…

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

Churches must intentionally give priority to planning, ministers maintain_72604

Posted: 7/23/04

Churches must intentionally give
priority to planning, ministers maintain

By Trennis Henderson

Kentucky Western Recorder

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–Warning “inertia is against planning,” Mark Wingfield said churches must make an intentional effort to achieve effective long-range planning.

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

ANOTHER VIEW: A pastor dad’s advice on ministering to military families_72604

Posted: 7/23/04

ANOTHER VIEW:
A pastor/dad's advice on ministering to military families

By Lee Brewer

Our son Daniel is a Marine in Fallujah, Iraq. As you might imagine, these past five months have been difficult for our family.

Here are some ideas that would help Christians minister to families with troops in harm's way. Because of our family's context, I will address a Marine, but you can apply the branch that fits your situation:

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by John Duncan: The one that got away_72604

Posted: 7/23/04

CYBERCOLUMN:
The one that got away

By John Duncan

I’m sitting here under the old oak tree, thinking about fishing. Jesus called fishermen to follow him.

The orange sun rose over the bay in Key West, Fla. The humidity of the morning and the coming day excited me. I watched the sunrise while the glassy waters mirrored the life of the sun. I ate breakfast, a feast of watermelon, sausage, scrambled eggs and orange juice. I walked off the ramp of the cruise ship on that summer morning and boarded a smaller vessel for fishing in the Florida Gulf Coast. The Duncan men—my father, George Sr.; my brother, George Jr.; my nephew, Graham; and I greeted that morning as we ventured on a fishing expedition. Sal and Brian, the crew of the ship, greeted us. Brian explained where the ice water was, where we were going, and our task for the day—to catch fish.

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

DOWN HOME: Dad has to scrub his fashion sense_72604

Posted: 7/23/04

DOWN HOME:
Dad has to scrub his fashion sense

Our youngest daughter, Molly, is too iconoclastic to be a slave to designer-label fashion.

For example, no matter how “cool” Abercrombie & Fitch clothes may be with the “popular” crowd, she'd wear my worn-out khakis and baggy sweatshirts before she'd shop in their stores. She deplores the exploitive, pornographic slant of their marketing.

Once, when I bought some underwear produced by a designer on her black list, I thought she was going to boycott me. And she probably would have, except I convinced her they were on sale and less expensive than my generic traditional boxers.

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

EDITORIAL: Texas Baptists haven’t had a (real) shootout in 100 years_72604

Posted: 7/23/04

EDITORIAL:
Texas Baptists haven't had a (real) shootout in 100 years

Texas Baptists got a bang out of the Baptist Standard 100 years ago. Literally.

In 1904, the Texas Supreme Court closed the legal books on a 12-year feud between James Britton Cranfill, editor of the Standard, and S.A. Hayden, rival editor of the Texas Baptist and Herald.

Personal animosity between the editors fueled the feud. But denominational discord stoked the flames. Cranfill's Baptist Standard resonated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Hayden and his paper affiliated with the Baptist Missionary Association, which sought to undermine the BGCT, particularly in East Texas.

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

ETBU greets VIPs_72604

Posted: 7/23/04 ETBU greets VIPs East Texas Baptist University Admissions Counselor Jason Soles (left) greets incoming students and their parents at "VIP Days" registration in Rogers Spiritual Life Center. The…

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge

LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for Aug. 1_72604

Posted: 7/23/04

LifeWay Explore the Bible Series for Aug. 1

Conforming to the world's values will cost dearly

2 Kings 16-17

By David Morgan

Trinity Baptist Church, Harker Heights

07/23/2004 - By John Rutledge