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Thursday, February 23, 2006
High school Bihle classes attract ACLU
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teaches them
The classes will ccFntinue
this semester, but beyond
that will be a school board
dedfiion, said Rick Holliday,
the district’s executive direc*
tor instructional services.
Losing the classes would be
worse than canceling calcu
lus, said Dcvi Vigus, the chair
man of tlie Executive Com
mittee of the Bible, the
church-supported group that
hires and pays the teachers.
The boc^ is at the roots of
this (xmntry, inspiring people
from the creation c/ the Bill of
Ri^ts to the unfolding of the
civil rights movement, he
said. For most kids who don’t
go to church, the classes eue
their one chance to learn the
Bible, he said
The Executive Comznittee
has been paying feu* classes in
New Hanover County for
more than 50 years. And left
to a vote, it might easily do so
for 50 more Just a whiff of
the ACLlTs involvement
brought out a long line of
speakers to last month’s
school board meeting, all
opposed to removing lessons
about the “anvil oti which our
Constitution was formed.”
Superintendent John Mor
ris said he couldn’t recall any
complaints about the classes
in his years atop the school
system.
“You get to know the history
of the Bible and the back
ground of where it came
from,” said Ashley Hebert, a
junior in one of Harris’ class
es “He’s not trying to cram
Christianity down your
throat or any religion.”
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at the
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Spirn-lcd Sunday Wi-w^hip: 11am
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Pa.stor, Rev. Samuel Guthrie, Jr.
2300 Sanders Avc.
Charlotte, NC • 704-358-1709
A CTiurch that cares
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Adulb; & Children's Sunday Sdwol: 9:45am
Sunday Services: 11:00am
Wed Bible Stud\/Pra\er 7:00pm
4th SaturdaN >outh Group at 2.‘00pm
Senior Pastor,
Rev. & Mrs,
Samuel Guthrie, Jr.
WVtrd (X Faith West will criebrate Black History Month with a
prewntaCion each Sunda> Morning, ending with Old Fashion Day
in costume on the fourth Sunda>.
.A meal wiB be served on the 4th Sundav following
the 11:00AM service
Tlie school board supports
the classes as well. Even the
area’s senior rabtd finds them
inoffensive.
“Tlie students are learning
the Bible and reading it a lit
tle closer and understanding
it better, which is good,” said
Rabbi Robert Waxman of
B’Nai Israel Synage^ue, who
observed one of the classes
two decades ago
But the Supreme Court has
repeatedly put aside commu
nity opinion and ruled that
religious study is appropriate
in public schools only as part
of a secular, ofcgective program
that seeks to neither advance
nor inhibit religion. And in
that regard, New Hanover’s
Bible classes may be suspect.
At Harris’s class last week
there was nothing close to
preaching. He asked students
questions about aspects of the'
Bible, like which events in
worid history explained why
the Old Tfestament was writ
ten in Hebrew and the New
Testament in Greek. At
another, he talked about the
tensions leading to the
Protestant Reformation.
But other moments
arguably reinforced a tradi-
Continued from page 5B
Second Calvary Baptist Church music ministry will present a
concert of Negro spirituals at 5 p m. For more information, call
(704) 394-0378. TTie church is located at 114 Nelson Ave.
• United C^hristian Fellowship Church will celebrate the
eighth pastoral amiiversary of the Rev. Sonya T. Ellerbe. Guest
preachers include pastor Derimzer Johnson of St. Stephens
AME Zion Cliurch, Ashbury Park, N.J., who will speak at 10:30
am.
Pastor Ronald D. Barton of Shady Oak Baptist CHiurch,
Greenville, S.C., will speak at 4 p.m.
The church is located at 118 Miller CTiapel Road, Salisbury
For more information, call (704) 633-0893.
Mait:h 11
The dhariotte Section of the National C!k)undl of Negro
Women Inc, will host its annual Brotherhood/Sisterhood Ban
quet at 7 p m. at the First Baptist Church West located at 1801
Oaklawn Ave. The cost is $25 per person. For more information,
call (704) 376-9955
March 12
The Inspiration Choir of CTiina Grove will celebrate their
fourth anniversary at 3 p.m. The church is located at 9401 Old
Pineville Road.
Embodying tmth
Continued from page 5B
(Titus 2:7-10)
Paul implored Titus to
make sure that his teaching
was done with integrity One
way to think of what integrity
means is to ask ourselves,
“What am I like wh^ I think
no one is looking? Do I act dif
ferently when no one is
around than I do when other
people are watching me?”
Paul encouraged Titus to
strive for a life that demon
strated the same level of puri
ty whether he was in public or
by himself This is why it is
important for us to ask our
selves, “Do I alter my behav
ior based on where I am or
who is in my company?”
By indicating that Titus’
teaching should be done fiom
a base integrity, Paul was
pointing out that Titus should
not teach anything that he
himself could not live.
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2929 Old Steele Creek Rd.
Charlotte, NC 28208 • Phone: 704.375.2116
Sunday School: 9:45AM
Worship: 11:00AM
Bible .Study: 6:30PM WMnesday
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tional brand of Christian
thinking. Harris referred to
creation and made state
ments such as the Bible is
one book, which has 66 small
er books, 40 authors and one
central theme; "The redemp
tion of man throu^ Jesus
Christ.”
Those simple claims might
be plain as day for some
Christians. But they’re not
true if you’re a scholar who
may see many hands behind
books such as Psalms, or if
you’re Jewish and unlikely to
find Christian redemption in
the Old Tfestament.
“In my view, teaching the
Bible as one book with the
unifying theme of ‘the
redemption of man through
Jesus Chrisf crosses the line
fi:x)m an academic study to a
specifically Christian inter
pretation of the Hebrew
Bible,” said Thomas Schmid,
chairman of the University of
North Carolina at Wilming-
ton’s religion and philosophy
department.
Holliday, the school dis
trict’s instructional services
executive director, said the
classes did a good job of being
academic, but he said some
aspects, such as declaring one
theme to the Bible, are prob
lematic. He, committee mem
bers and the Bible teachers
met recently to change the
curriculum.
Over the years, the classes
have taken a traditional view
of the Bible as a historical
account of God working
through his people, said
Vigus, a youth minister at
First Baptist Church in
^\Tlmington.
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