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Church & People News for Feb. 3, 2005

S T A F F • C H A N G E S Aaron Brittain, to Park View Church, Portsmouth, as pastor. Gary Chiles, to Calverton Church, Calverton, as pastor. Mark Snodgrass, to Piney Fork Church, Gretna, as pastor. Glen…

In reversal, Rolling Stone accepts Bible ad

An ad for a newly-translated version of the Scriptures will appear in Rolling Stone magazine, after magazine publishers reversed their decision to reject it. The revelation was good news for Zondervan, the publisher trying to spread the word about its…

Evangelical leaders ask Bush to address poverty

A group of prominent evangelical Christian leaders-including heads of some of the nation's most conservative colleges and other institutions-have asked President Bush to pay more attention to poverty issues in his second term. The group of 76 academics, activists and…

Sloan to step down as Baylor president

Baylor University President Robert Sloan will step down June 1, concluding one of the stormiest periods in the 160-year history of the Waco, Texas, school, one of the largest university affiliated with Baptists. Sloan will become Baylor's chancellor at the…

Polish meeting in July may lead to alternative to Baptist World Alliance

By Robert Marus and Greg Warner Southern Baptist Convention leaders will meet with international Baptists leaders in July to create an alternative to the Baptist World Alliance, according to an SBC agency head. Richard Land, president of the SBC Ethics…

Millard Fuller fired from Habitat as dispute with board re-erupts

AMERICUS, Ga. (ABP) — Millard and Linda Fuller were immediately dismissed Jan. 31 from their jobs with Habitat for Humanity International, the worldwide Christian housing ministry they founded and led for 29 years. The organization's executive committee charged the Fullers…

U.N. report blames Sudan government for Darfur crisis, calls for prosecution

WASHINGTON (ABP) — While stopping short of labeling the humanitarian crisis in the Sudan's Darfur region “genocide,” a long-awaited United Nations report lays blame on the Sudanese government for creating the crisis. The report, released Jan. 31 by a five-member…

Black Baptists hold historic meeting, unite on social, political issues

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Leaders of four historically black Baptist denominations closed a landmark joint meeting Jan. 28 by issuing a statement on several social and political issues affecting the African-American community. Meeting in Nashville over a four-day period, officials of…

Volunteers in Sri Lanka see lasting pain beneath the smiles

DALLAS (ABP) — Sri Lanka looks like the aftermath of a fatal car wreck — the bodies are gone but the devastation remains as a vivid reminder of a series of tsunamis that slammed the island nation — according to…

Notre Dame provost named president of Wake Forest

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Nathan Hatch, provost of the University of Notre Dame, has been selected as the 13th president of Wake Forest University. Hatch, a historian who has spent his entire academic career at Notre Dame, was unanimously approved…

CBF Foundation hires stewardship associate

ATLANTA – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Foundation hired Bill Johnson, 48, of Gulf Shores, Ala., Jan. 3 as stewardship associate, responsible for raising funds for endowments for CBF ministry initiatives and partners. Johnson's primary focus is working with individuals who…

Kentucky Baptist Fellowship hires associate coordinator of missions

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) — Campus minister Rhonda Abbott was hired by the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship Jan. 21 to the newly created position of associate coordinator for missions. Abbott, who began work Feb. 1, will coordinate missions efforts on a statewide…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system