August 2004

Jerry Jenkins Coming to Fort Wayne November 4

A very long (2,242 words) and mostly favorable article by staff writer John Silcox featuring Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the “Left Behind” fiction series, appears on page 1 of the C section of today’s Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Jenkins, who is giving $60,000 of his own money to Taylor University/Fort Wayne’s professional writing program for …

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Stowell Resigns Moody Presidency

For the complete news release, click here. CHICAGO – (Aug. 26, 2004) On Aug. 26, Moody Bible Institute (MBI) President Dr. Joseph M. Stowell announced to students, faculty and staff his resignation effective February 2005. He told those gathered in Torrey-Gray Auditorium, on Moody’s campus, that his decision was guided by a growing sense of …

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How Much Goal-Setting is Right?

This stimulating entry appears on the current blog of WORLD magazine. How do we, as Grace Brethren, react? Should we be setting numerical goals for conversions and baptisms? Is our over-arching goal of every church being a church-planting center realistic, reachable, and biblically defensible? If we are to continue the Progressive Brethren tradition, we need …

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Making Amends With Anabaptists

The current blog of Christianity Today carries this interesting item on efforts to make amends for the persecution our Anabaptist forebears endured: Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed churches are seeking to make amends for persecuting Anabaptists in the 16th and 17th centuries. A Vatican-appointed delegation last fall concluded five years of meetings with a group from …

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