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Commentary: Love … No Matter What … by Don Kirkland

Published on August 31, 2009

For the final three months of her 84 years, my mother-in-law Ruth Vincent lived with Linda and me, dispensing the wisdom springing from a lifetime of hard work and sometimes hard knocks, and from a vast store of good... Continue Reading »

Hunter marks 25 years as Charleston Southern University president

Published on August 19, 2009

Jairy Hunter, a Lancaster native with a Ph.D. degree from Duke, left the University of North Carolina system, where he had been vice chancellor for development and business at UNC's Wilmington campus since 1978, began duties on July 15,... Continue Reading »

Commentary: ‘Not bad … not bad at all’ … by Don Kirkland

Published on August 19, 2009

Page five contains an article and picture calling attention to Jairy Hunter's 25th anniversary as president of Charleston Southern University. This is an anniversary year for me as well. In 1974 ? 10 years before Jairy arrived on the... Continue Reading »

Commentary: Preparing the ‘called’ … by Don Kirkland

Published on August 5, 2009

Don Kirkland On page one of this issue of the Courier is an article under the headline, “Preparing ministers for the 21st century.” It chronicles the efforts of the three South Carolina Baptist universities — Anderson, Charleston Southern and... Continue Reading »

Preparing ministers for the 21st century

Published on August 3, 2009

For Anderson University, it began with an elemental question: Suppose there were no such things as seminaries, and you had to create a program from scratch to train effective ministers for the 21st century. What would you do?... Continue Reading »

South Carolina resort missionary remains ‘critical’ after Montana accident

Published on July 31, 2009

As the deadline for the Aug. 6 edition of The Baptist Courier arrived, an ?Innovator? resort missionary from Spartanburg remained in critical condition at St. Vincent's Hospital in Billings, Mont., following a one-vehicle accident that injured four.... Continue Reading »

Commentary: ‘Go and do likewise’ … by Don Kirkland

Published on July 17, 2009

Southern Baptists are certainly to be commended for following a divine impulse to develop a strategy that would give rise to what is being termed a Great Commission Resurgence within our denomination.... Continue Reading »

Commentary: Resurgence a rallying point? … by Don Kirkland

Published on July 2, 2009

Messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Louisville June 23-24 gave president Johnny Hunt the ?green light? to appoint a task force to study how best to implement a Great Commission Resurgence strategy.... Continue Reading »

Commentary: ‘No turning back, no …’ — by Don Kirkland

Published on June 22, 2009

Not that long ago, Betty Bedenbaugh would have been in her customary seat on the front row in the alto section of the sanctuary choir. And if the choir had been presenting the Swahili rendition of one of her... Continue Reading »

Commentary: A Word to the Class of 2009 … by Don Kirkland

Published on June 8, 2009

The vast majority of you probably are chilling intellectually at this pivotal time of your lives, but at the risk of raising the specter of academics, I want to offer a word (or two) to the Class of 2009.... Continue Reading »

Commentary: King helped show the way … by Don Kirkland

Published on May 21, 2009

Not many South Carolinians ever met or even knew Archie King, who died May 12 at the age of 86 at his home in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Thousands in the Palmetto State have felt the impact of his ministry, however.... Continue Reading »

State leaders endorse ‘Great Commission Resurgence’

Published on May 8, 2009

Two leaders of the South Carolina Baptist Convention have voiced their support of Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt's call for a Great Commission Resurgence.... Continue Reading »