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An Article in the Think About It and Act Series |
| Changing Responsibilities Related to Print Media According to an article in the Baptist Press the Christian Index the Georgia Baptist paper is taking a new direction and is going to become "Georgia-centric". It occurred to me that other state Baptist papers might also be trending in that direction. If that is so it has ramifications for campus ministry. In the past we have been able to recommend to our students the regular reading of their state Baptist paper to keep up with most things Baptist. If your state has gone "state-centric" that is no longer adequate. Just as our colleges discourage educated students from being provincial in their thinking we need to give our students the tools to avoid becoming provincial in their thinking concerning Baptist matters. That is of course true not only for our students but also for us. The choices in the print medium are very limited. To my knowledge the primary print national Baptist paper is Baptists Today, probably a very good choice anyway since its present editor Dr. Johnny Pierce is a former campus minister. Dr. Pierce makes this offer "Supporters of Baptists Today are eager for the next generation of church leaders to know the value of a free press. Baptist students can receive donor-funded subscriptions by simply sending their names and addresses to me at jpierce@baptiststoday.org."For others subscriptions are available on line at http://www.baptiststoday.org/subscriptions.htm and by mail at Baptists Today - P.O. Box 6318 - Macon, GA 31208-6318. The 3 primary on line national sources of information are Baptist Press, Associated Baptist Press and Baptists Today. Other non news sources of information can be found at BaptistLife.com I know that some will feel that some sources are too bias in one direction or another, but isn't part of our job to help students learn how to deal with such things rather than send them into the world later unprepared for the what is there. Think about it and act as the Lord leads you. Respectively submitted, Dick Houston, senior campus minister for the cyber student center Houston@student.org |
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