Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Graves featured in Baptists Today


A really great piece on the BTSR president who has helped to turn the school into a major player in Baptist Education. President Graves has some family ties in our congregation, not to mention a former student in the form of our minister of Christian Education, Linda Moore. This interview is about four large-format pages, and well worth the time. Graves is leaving quite a legacy at BTSR, and we're seeing it happen in real time; that seems rare these days as folks are so often focused on things "of the moment."
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linda said...

I hear this is a pretty good seminary.

June 15, 2007 at 7:52 PM

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I began this blog in preparation for what has been billed in some circles as the "last desperate hope for non-SBC Baptists," the New Baptist Covenant.

Who's us? Well, in my case, American Baptists. I am a cradle American Baptist, having grown up in the Union Baptist Church of Mystic, Connecticut (see links) where I was baptized into the faith in 1981. I pursued various secular goals for a while before recognizing a call to Seminary at Andover Newton Theological School, which led to ordained ministry here at First Baptist Church in Newton.

I am a disciple of the writings of C.S. Lewis, Walter Rauschenbusch, and William Sloan Coffin. As such, I am a student of "liberality," as so well expressed in the recent Christianity for the Rest of Us by Diana Butler Bass. That means I personally believe in welcome and inclusion of ALL persons into the Christian faith, even the folks I disagree completely with.

Is the title self-referential? No, not by a long shot. However,"...a vast number of folks have adopted the appellation 'Baptist' to mean a whole bunch of things that have little to do with what it meant to be Baptist in the first place.Who will be the last Baptist standing? That's unknown, but I can assure you: we'll have to choose from among the available Baptists. All three or so."