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...would be tough for a freshman to slip through the cracks at William Jewell College. That's because this 1,400-student Baptist liberal-arts school in Liberty, Mo., has caulked up every crevice where a newcomer might stumble. Jewell's mentor program reaches out to incoming students even before they pack their bags. Its introductory freshmen seminar has all the first-year students highlighting their copies of St. Augustine's Confessions on the same night. And the college assigns all newcomers as many as five contacts--two faculty members and three students--to check on their adjustment...
...weekend, they meet the rest of their five-person intervention team. In addition to their mentor, their academic adviser and dean for first-year students Nasteff, the freshmen are introduced to that traditional student counselor, the resident adviser, and one more peer contact that reflects the college's Baptist background--a student called a shepherd, whose role is spiritual guidance. That guidance can mean helping freshmen study for midterms or praying with them. Jewell's campus is ecumenical--no religion courses or pledge of faith is required, and the student-senate leader is Jewish--but the school's Christian focus...
Speaking of a "narrow escape" and a "nifty loophole," Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy were able to write of the wisdom of Bush's decision without ever admitting that Bush was wise. (THE REV.) PAUL PORTER, PASTOR Van Meter Baptist Church Van Meter, Iowa...
...pastor from the Bethany Slavic Missionary Church at their home in North Highlands, a suburb of Sacramento, Calif. Like most of the large community of Ukrainians and Russians in the greater Sacramento area, the Soltyses are thought to have immigrated to the U.S. as religious refugees--persecuted Pentecostal and Baptist minorities--and the two were looking for a church to call their own. This was the big interview to qualify for membership...
...inside a purpose-built structure. That may mean that the bones belonged to an important person, perhaps even the "Teacher of Righteousness" mentioned in the scrolls. Other researchers have speculated that the teacher may have been one of the Maccabean kings of Judea, the apostle James, John the Baptist, perhaps even Jesus...