Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 25, 1993 TAG: 9311170237
SECTION: RELIGION PAGE: A7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: from staff and wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
``The Book of Revelation'' will be the theme of a class that will begin Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Galax. It will continue for 12 weeks and is a project of the New River Association of Southern Baptists.
Cost is $30 per person or $45 per couple, which covers the cost of a workbook. Call 236-8306 or 236-7484 for more information.
Evangelist to speak
Johnny Wilson, an evangelist who has traveled internationally and presented programs for both children and adults on television, will speak Oct. 1 through 3 at 7 p.m. and for the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Longwood Avenue Baptist Church in Bedford.
Call 586-3352 for more information on the services, which are part of a Bedford County Crusade for Christ series. The church is at 1304 Longwood Ave.
Homecomings
Homecoming - with special attention to senior adults - is scheduled Oct. 3 at Shady Grove Baptist Church near Thaxton.
The Rev. Elmer Sellers, a former pastor, will preach at a 2 p.m. service where special music also will be presented. Potluck lunch will follow the 11 a.m. service.
The church is planning a building expansion, and plans for it will be available for viewing.
f\ A 90th anniversary homecoming festival is scheduled Oct. 2 at the Presbyterian Home & Family Services, 150 Linden Ave. in Lynchburg. Entertainment will include games played in 1903 when the home opened as an orphanage. Activities will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The home now is a coordinating agency for family services and includes mental-retardation ministries centered in Fredericksburg and Zuni. In Lynchburg there are short-term residence programs for children, teens and others needing emergency shelter.
All programs are ministries of the Presbyterian Synod of the Mid-Atlantic which includes Virginia churches of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Call 804-384-3138 for homecoming details.
\ Monacan Indians in the Amherst County community of Bear Mountain will hold homecoming and a bazaar Oct. 2 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Kenmore Road.
The Monacan Tribal Association, many of whose members are also active in the church, are seeking to establish a museum of their heritage, which extends back 200 years. Hours will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The community is reached from U.S. 29, five miles north of Amherst.
Lynman Lectures ``New Perspectives on Early Christianity'' will be the theme of the Lyman Lectures at Sweet Briar College Oct. 7.
Two lectures will be presented by Elaine H. Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton University. She is the author of works on the Gnostic Gospels, early Christian writings that were not included in the familiar canon of Scripture; and the role of Satan in religious history.
Pagels will speak at 4:30 p.m. on ``The Secret Gospel of Thomas: A Challenge to New Testament Views of Jesus'' and at 8 p.m. on ``What Happened to God the Mother?''
The lectures will be in the Memorial Chapel with a reception for the speaker following at 9 p.m. in Pannell Gallery.
Teaching evolution
IPSWICH, Mass. - A national organization of scientists is sending California high school biology teachers copies of a book urging them to teach evolution as science, not as disguised ideology.
A Vista, Calif., controversy on the matter was described as ``fueled on one side by dogmatists who attack evolution because they believe it can't possibly be true, and on the other side by dogmatists who believe it simply has to be true.''
The paperback book, ``Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy,'' was prepared by the American Scientific Affiliation, an organization of 2,400 scientists who are also Christians.
They cite major scientific problems related to human origins but say it is not the ``science of evolution that causes problems,'' but the fact that both religious and anti-religious dogmatists ``distort the science to make it serve their causes.''
Rabbis harassed
NEW YORK - A survey of female rabbis finds that 73 percent of them report they have been sexually harassed at least once in the course of their work, and 24 percent report being harassed once a month or more in some way.
The survey, conducted by the Commission for Women's Equality of the American Jewish Congress, also found most of the women rabbis are happy with their careers and their decision to enter the ministry.
by CNB