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Judge dismisses Klouda lawsuit against seminary
Posted: 3/28/08
Judge dismisses Klouda
lawsuit against seminaryBy Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
FORT WORTH (ABP)—A federal judge has ruled Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s decision to fire a female Hebrew professor was akin to a church’s decision to fire its pastor and therefore outside the purview of the civil courts.
U.S. District Judge John McBryde dismissed all of the complaints in Sheri Klouda’s lawsuit against her alma mater and former employer.
Sheri Klouda 03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Lamar students minister in South Texas
Posted: 3/28/08
Lamar students minister in South Texas
Lamar University students sing in the Escobares town square.
Lamar University student workers paint faces of children during Vacation Bible School in the South Texas town of Escobares. Young children enjoy a Vacation Bible School at Primera Bautista Iglesia de Escobares led by Lamar University student missionaries.• See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptist Forum
Posted: 3/28/08
Texas Baptist Forum
Reason to swap
Regarding your editorial on “U.S. faith swapping,” (March 17) illicit affairs are not the only reason to leave a marriage. Sometimes the spouse is overbearing, neglectful and abusive.
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“Honestly, if we could harness some of the emotion from this and turn it to evangelism and missions, we could see a massive change in our missionary and evangelistic endeavors.”
Frank Page
Southern Baptist Convention president, commenting on the furor after some Southern Baptists—including Page —signed a statement calling for environmental protection (Baptist Press/RNS)“One day, I have to give an account to God and not to nobody else of what I’ve done in my life. And that’s why I’ve said and shared the stuff with y’all that … I wouldn’t like to share with y’all.”
Andy Pettitte
Yankees pitcher and Baptist Sunday school teacher, telling Congress he used human growth hormone but did not consider it cheating (New York Daily News/RNS)“Women have two places—in front of the sink and behind the vacuum.”
Micah Armstrong
Evangelist, preaching to University of Alabama students, also saying they will go to hell for drinking, cursing, having pre-marital sex, watching movies or reading Harry Potter books (Associated Press/RNS)Having come of age spiritually in the midst of the Baptist infighting of the 1980s and 1990s, I, like many of my generation, left an unhealthy Baptist marriage and sought less contentious places of worship.
At Baylor University in the late 1980s, I watched as my professors were abused in photocopied publications passed around campus and at Baptist General Convention of Texas meetings. I attended those meetings, which were as partisan and divisive as mainstream politics.
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Sam Houston State teams at Mission Arlington
Posted: 3/28/08
Sam Houston State teams at Mission Arlington
Erika Rangel from Sam Houston State University spends quality time with a little girl at Mission Arlington. Brock Wardlaw from Sam Houston State University gives a boy at Mission Arlington a ride on his shoulders. Zach Massey from Sam Houston State University gives a piggyback ride to an Arlington child. Michael Bosquez from Sam Houston State University enjoys time with children in Arlington. Sam Stokes from Sam Houston State University hangs out with a group of children in Arlington.The Baptist Student Ministries at Sam Houston State University sent 25 volunteers to Mission Arlington. The student missionaries conducted service projects including free garage sales, passing out flyers at apartment complexes, organizing and cleaning, and filling Easter eggs. Students worked with about 60 children in the afternoon at an apartment complex— singing, praying, playing games and teaching Bible stories.
• See Complete Spring Break Ministry Coverage Here 03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Report: Without changes, selling lottery doesn’t add up
Posted: 3/28/08
Report: Without changes,
selling lottery doesn’t add upBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
AUSTIN—Unless gambling is expanded, selling the lottery will not produce the $14 billion Gov. Rick Perry has estimated, according to a report released by a watchdog group March 26.
Texans for Public Justice reports that documents given to the governor’s office suggest gambling in Texas would need to be expanded in order to generate the kind of income Perry has suggested. The extension of gambling would allow the lottery to show increasing sales, making it more attractive to bidders.
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 3/28/08
Texas Tidbits
Baylor Garland medical team serves in Honduras. Health care professionals from Baylor Medical Center in Garland recently served on a medical mission to Honduras, working with Mission Predisan. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, translators, anesthesiologists, sterile processing technicians and others who made the trek donated their medical services. At a clinic in Catacamas, the operating room team performed 27 surgeries in three and a half days. Part of the mission team traveled to remote mountain clinics, where they treated 300 patients in three days, working by candlelight in facilities that lacked electricity and plumbing.
Gracewood benefits from matching grants. Children at Heart Ministries has received two matching grants to expand its Gracewood program for single mothers and their children. The Christ Is Our Salvation Foundation will match up to $220,000 for operating expenses related to Gracewood’s expansion, which includes the first residence on a new northwest Houston campus and the conversion of existing offices to a residence at its original campus in southwest Houston. The Leroy and Merle Weir Charitable Trust has made a $275,000 challenge grant toward construction of an additional residence on the northwest campus in Houston.
03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Black liberation theology provides the doctrine behind fiery rhetoric
Posted: 3/28/08
Black liberation theology provides
the doctrine behind fiery rhetoricBy Rosemary Parrillo
Religion News Service
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS)—Jeremiah Wright’s condemnation of the United States—particularly pronouncing damnation on America—looped hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube and news broadcasts. In the process, the pastor preached himself and his most famous church member, presidential contender Barack Obama, into a political maelstrom.
Quickly the question of race developed into a speed bump for the streaking Obama campaign, leading the candidate to try to set the record straight about his relationship with Wright, the fiery pastor who recently retired from Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ.
James Cone is a theologian at Union Theological Seminary in New York and is considered the father of black liberation theology. See Related Articles:
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03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
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Obama pastor’s tough sermons just part of long, prophetic tradition
Posted: 3/28/08
Obama pastor’s tough sermons just
part of long, prophetic traditionBy Adelle M. Banks
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)—The longtime pastor of Sen. Barack Obama’s black megachurch in Chicago has come under fire for sermons that many have called racist, offensive—and even dangerous.
Jeremiah Wright has called the federal government the “U.S. of K.K.K. A.” Just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Wright said “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
Jeremiah Wright See Related Articles:
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03/28/2008 - By John Rutledge
