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Volume 1 No 1April 1995 >next>
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Word About Christian Ethics Today
The Center for Christian Ethics The Center for Christian Ethics was planned in 1988, named in 1989, chartered as a non-profit corporation with the office of the Texas Secretary of State on June 14, 1990, and granted 501(c) (3) standing by the Internal Revenue Service on June 17, 1991. The primary objectives of
the Center are important and attainable. Christian Ethics: ‘Who’s Alive in ‘95? Christian Ethics: Quo
Vadis? Q. Dr. Barnette, since you are now 83 years old and, by head and shoulders, the dean of Baptist Christian ethics teachers, let us begin by asking, If you had your life to live over, would you teach Christian ethics again? A. I am 83 years old; but I am not “dean of Baptist Christian ethics teachers.” Maybe Southern Baptists if construed in terms of longevity. Would I teach Christian ethics again? Yes. Q.Why? A. Why? Christian ethics is that dimension of the Christian faith
that deals with concrete realities such as racial, economic, and social
injustice issues which are still rarely seriously challenged by the churches
and seminaries. Crying in the
Wilderness: Streaking in Jerusalem: The Prophethood of All Believers
95 Theses In 1517 when Martin Luther
nailed his 95 Theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, there was great need for reformation in a religious establishment
run amok It has seemed not inappropriate
to revisit this concept which issued in Luther’s prophetic act. A diverse company of sometime ethicists, theologians,
historians, prophets, priests,
malfeasants, miscreants, and malcontents
were invited to contribute to the enterprise. Their names are safely locked
away in a vault in Zurich lest they be turned in to the IRS
and subsequently chained in a bottomless pit
for a thousand years. So here I stand. God help me.
Updated Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
The Crisis in Public Education Thank you. It is an honor to be with you, all the way from Oklahoma, the state which is still trying to build a University of which the football team can be proud. You know, I told Barry Switzer when he moved to Texas, “Well, we’ll start losing games because we’ll have to stop recruiting in prison.” I don’t know if you saw me on ESPN when they did a little thirty minute program with me after Barry Switzer got the new job with the Dallas Cowboys. I certainly enjoyed it because I have covered a lot of his career which has been very colorful, to say the least. The interviewer said, “What do you think about his going to Texas?” I said, “The minute he crossed the Red River into Texas he raised the IQ of both states.” Barry called me and said, “What does that mean?” I
spent last evening in Portland, Oregon with the School Board Association. The
President asked me a question during dinner, “Why are you interested in public
education?” I unhesitatingly told her my story.... A Book Review of Sorts Why the Religious Right is Wrong About Separation of Church and State
Are you tired of hearing false charges like these from
followers of TV religion hucksters, radio “talk show” garrulous scumbags, and partisan
extremists of the radical Religious Right? Fight back. Get a copy of Why the
Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State
and learn how to respond to these and similar
arguments. Introduction to Walter Rauschenbusch’s Why I Am a Baptist Born
in 1861 and living until 1918, he is best known as the author of such widely
influential books as Christianity and the Social Crisis, Prayers of the
Social Awakening, and The Social Principles of Jesus. After
graduating from the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1886, he was ordained as
a Baptist minister, the seventh in a direct line of ministers. After a
pastorate among very poor German immigrants in New York City, he taught in the
Rochester Theological Seminary. Why I Am a Baptist
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