Wednesday, April 07, 2004

• Homosexuals oppose same-sex 'marriage,' magazine poll suggests

  by Michael Foust, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The majority of homosexuals are opposed to same-sex “marriage” and a few want to see the institution of marriage abolished altogether, according to an online poll of a homosexual-themed Canadian magazine. Read More

• LIFE DIGEST: Dems’ losses linked to pro-choice position

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP)--Two pro-life Democrats in the House of Representatives have met with Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe to demonstrate the party’s majority in Congress evaporated as it became more entrenched in the abortion-rights camp. Read More

• Mo. judge clarifies ruling against convention over entities

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)--A Missouri judge entered an order on April 7 refusing to reconsider his March 11 ruling against the Missouri Baptist Convention in its legal effort to return Missouri Baptist College to the convention along with four other breakaway entities. Read More

• Adventure recreation gearing up at conference centers

  by Chris Turner, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  Tower for team-building A high ropes course tower will be part of the team-building adventure activities being developed at LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center in New Mexico. Photo courtesy of LifeWay

  GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)--Jim Strickland slides the tip of his pen across the fuzzy black and white satellite photo of LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center and can see things his guest can’t.

        “Right here is where the adventure course will be and back here will be three different paintball ranges,” he says. “Our shelter facilities with classrooms will go over here.”

  Strickland, adventure recreation manager at Glorieta, talks as if he can actually see what is now only a dream. But it is a dream that is coming true. Read More

• Miss. collegians, on spring break, help out at MBTS

  by James Streicher, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Rolling up their sleeves and putting elbow grease into their brush strokes, 21 students from Itawamba Community College’s Baptist Student Union in Fulton, Miss., sacrificed their spring break to help touch up the facilities at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Read More

• Karen Watson’s duffel bag a symbol of sacrifice, students told

  by Katherine Albers, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Everything she owned was in a duffel bag. When she felt God’s call to Iraq, Karen Watson resigned her job, sold her car, her house and other worldly possessions, packing what was left into a duffel bag. Read More

• Southwestern trustees elect 2 deans, approve M.Div., college

  by Gregory Tomlin, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary elected two new deans during their semiannual meeting on the seminary’s Fort Worth, Texas, campus April 6.

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• Seminary adds 10 faculty members, including 1st native of Mexico

  by Brent Thompson, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary elected eight new faculty members, including the first-ever native of Mexico, during their April 6 meeting. Read More

• Women’s institute sessions examine mentorship, leadership development

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--More than a dozen women learned how to implement biblically based women’s mentorship programs and studied leadership skill development during Women’s Ministry Institute sessions March 29-April 2 at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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• FIRST-PERSON: John Kerry & his Catholicism (part 2)

  by R. Albert Mohler Jr., posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The 2004 presidential election campaign will pit two very different candidates against each other, representing not only two different political parties, but two divergent worldviews. On issues ranging from stem cell research and abortion to same-sex “marriage,” the candidates represent two different worlds of moral conviction. Interestingly, President George W. Bush, a Methodist, stands much closer to the Catholic Church's teaching on these issues than does Sen. John Kerry, who identifies as a practicing Roman Catholic. What is going on here? Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Whosoever

  by Micca Campbell, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--As a little girl, I remember gazing at a picture of the crucifixion that hung on the wall in my Sunday School class. Christ’s body was thin and hung limp to one side. His head was bowed low as blood trickled down His face from the crown of thorns He humbly wore. It appeared that the nails in His hands and feet were what fastened Him to the cross. Soon I would discover it was something much more than nails that held Him there. It was the love of a heavenly Father for a sinner such as I. Read More

• SPORTS: Opening day diary

  by Tim Ellsworth, posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 (20 years ago)

  MULKEYTOWN, Ill. (BP)--"Get your face out of the beer -- you're missing a ballgame." Read More