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  Billy Graham returns home from hospital

  Evangelist Billy Graham returned home May 15 after a five-day hospital stay for pneumonia. Graham, 92, has regained strength after treatment with antibiotics, according to his doctors at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Faith Digest

  Cancer patients who consider the length of their lives to be “in God’s hands” are more willing than others to spend money on treatments that might extend their lives, a new study shows.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  The Baylor University board of regents approved a $428.6 million operating budget for 2011-2012 and elected new members of the governing board—including the first two non-Baptist regents in the school’s history.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Scholars chase Bible’s changes, one verse at a time

  New Orleans Baptist Seminary Bible scholars are buried in a 20-year project to codify the thousands of changes, verse by verse, word by word—even letter by letter—that crept into the early New Testament during hundreds of years of laborious hand-copying.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Bike Out Hunger participants insist: ‘It’s not about the ride’

  More than 35 cyclists, grueling hills, daily rides often longer than 70 miles, and an adventure in faith from Beaumont to Texarkana—that’s Bike Out Hunger.

   

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  Houston attorney Joe Jamail presented a $1 million gift to San Marcos Baptist Academy—the largest cash donation in the school’s 104-year history.

  05/18/2011 - By Administrator

• On the Move

  Louis Brewer has resigned as pastor of Denton Valley Church in Clyde.

  05/18/2011 - By Administrator

• Around the State

  Robert Brooks has been named dean of the School of Music and Fine Arts at Hardin-Simmons University.

  05/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Kimball clarifies how religion turns lethal

  Power corrupts, and when it accrues to religious leaders, the combination of power and religion can turn lethal, says Middle East scholar Charles Kimball.

  05/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Ergun Caner moving to school begun by J. Frank Norris

  Ergun Caner, the former president of Liberty Theological Seminary demoted for exaggerating claims about his Muslim upbringing, has been hired as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Arlington Baptist College, according to a press release on Caner's website.

  05/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Pastor, denominational statesman James Pleitz dies

  James Pleitz, a well-known pastor in Florida and Texas active in denominational leadership, died Sunday, May 15. He had been in care of the Joyce Goldenberg Hospice Inpatient Residence in Pensacola, Fla., since May 2.

  05/16/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baylor School of Social Work welcomes alumni from Carver School

  Recently, the Baylor School of Social Work served as host for a reunion for alumni of the Carver School of Church Social Work—a pioneering institution in the area of Christian social work. Diana Garland, dean of the Baylor School of Social Work, served as the Carver School’s dean from 1993 to1995.

  05/12/2011 - By Administrator