New Prez to SBCer....NO WOMEN IN THE PULPIT

[Billy]

http://www.bpnews.org/bpnews.asp?ID=23710

[Haruo]

[Sandy]

[pjerwin]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Hal Eaton]

Oldad muses: Sez SBC Prez Page: Shortly after receiving the Ph.D., however, Page became convinced “through personal study and prayer” that his dissertation was not exegetically sound and reflected the work of an “immature theologian.”

Oldad: In light of his own rejection of his dissertation, does Page still retain the perks, honor, prestige, and title of "Dr."?

[Jonathan]

[Sandy]

[Hal Eaton]

[Jonathan]

[Jonathan]

[rdenton]

[rdenton]

[David Flick]

[Sandy]

[pjerwin]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Haruo]

Yes, it was Judson Memorial Church in NYC; I stayed with an intern on the church staff. (She's Jewish, single and pregnant; and has no furniture to speak of; at least no beds; four nights on a hardwood floor using my Esperanto Koran as a pillow the first two nights.) I attended Sunday morning worship there (in addition to the service at the Esperanto convention) and have to say it was a very uplifting experience. The pastor was out of town (or maybe in jail, I'm not sure; several of their members were in jail for some protest they'd been in at the United Nations building). She's clearly an interesting woman. Judson Memorial Church is a neighborhood church, dually aligned ABC/UCC, and its neighborhood is Greenwich Village (it faces right on Washington Square Park). Wonderful music, the whole congregation was choral. More hymnic than Brattleboro (I like hymns), they sang a new text to Ebenezer (Ton-y-Botel) and all five verses of the NCH-redacted "God of Grace and God of Glory", as well as some shorter pieces.

Haruo

[Ed Pettibone]

[pjerwin]

[Haruo]

[pjerwin]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Haruo]

[Haruo]