Tuesday, November 08, 2005

• Trial concludes: Fed. judge now weighing Pennsylvania Intelligent Design case

  by James Patterson, posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 (18 years ago)

  HARRISBURG, Pa. (BP)-–Prohibiting students from learning about Intelligent Design would cheapen their educational experience, a lawyer for the Dover Area School Board said in closing arguments at the conclusion of the first federal court case testing the constitutionality of the concept in public education.

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• Congressmen urge Bush to protect chaplains’ religious liberty

  by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 (18 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP)--Members of Congress are calling on President Bush to preserve the religious freedom of chaplains in the armed services.

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• Former president, legal counsel of Ariz. foundation on trial

  by Staff, posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 (18 years ago)

  PHOENIX (BP)--Nearly a decade after financial irregularities first surfaced, the Baptist Foundation of Arizona’s former president and legal counsel are on trial for fraud and theft.

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• Adrian Rogers undergoing medical treatment

  by Staff, posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 (18 years ago)

  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)--Adrian Rogers, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, has been hospitalized for double pneumonia.

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• Minister, amid Katrina’s upheaval, attests to God’s sufficiency

  by Keith Manuel, posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 (18 years ago)

  PASCAGOULA, Miss. (BP)--Bob Storie has been ministering in Jackson County, Miss., for decades. He has seen an ebb and flow of challenges, both as the son of a local Baptist pastor and one who has been a pastor himself as well as a port chaplain for 18 years and, currently, the chaplain at Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula. Nothing, however, has equaled the upheaval of Hurricane Katrina -– personally or professionally.

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• New application inserts Bible verses into documents

  by Staff, posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Many a seminary student has burned the midnight oil writing lengthy theological papers referencing Bible verses with hard-to-spell historical figures such as Melchizedik and ancient locations such as Gederothaim.

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• FIRST-PERSON: Another appalling ruling

  by Alan Branch, posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 (18 years ago)

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--The judge who believes “one nation under God” should not be in the Pledge of Allegiance now says that parents should not be able to set the agenda for their children’s sex education.

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• FIRST-PERSON: Making evangelism good news again

  by Alvin L. Reid, posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 (18 years ago)

  WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--On July 17, 13 pastors from Providence Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., baptized 117 people at Beaver Dam at Falls Lake, which is near Raleigh. Every person baptized was, as is the custom at Providence, interviewed previously by a deacon to be sure about their Christian testimony.

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