Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, August 26, 1995 TAG: 9508280003
SECTION: RELIGION PAGE: A5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Bible Study Fellowship International will sponsor a study of the Gospel of John for women at North Roanoke Baptist Church on Peters Creek Road. The evening class will begin at 7:25 on Sept. 11. Call 977-0468 for information.
A morning class will begin at 9:10 on Sept. 13 at Grandin Court Baptist Church on Brambleton Avenue. A children's program for kids ages 2 to 5 will be held for pre-registered children. Call 890-4163.
``Gospel in Pagan Culture''
Carl E. Braaten, executive director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology and the co-editor of ``Pro Ecclesia,'' will lead a seminar titled ``Either/Or The Gospel in a Pagan Culture'' on Sept. 28 at Roanoke College's Antrim Chapel. The seminar, which costs $10, is open to pastors and lay professionals and begins at 1:30 p.m.
Braaten is the author of several books and has taught systematic theology at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago and the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary. He also will be guest lecturer for the college's weekly convocation series earlier that day, speaking on ``The Cost of Being Christian in the Modern World.''
For more information, call 375-2300.
Catholic educators
NEWTON, Mass. - Roman Catholic educators want to spread the gospel of what works in their schools, but first they have to find out what those things are.
The National Catholic Education Association and Boston College are working to identify programs that have succeeded at kindergarten, elementary and secondary school levels, and to tell others about them.
Catholic educators from around the country met recently at Boston College to lay the groundwork for the project, called ``Catholic Schools for the 21st Century.''
During the next four years, they want to identify about 30 promising programs covering such things as using technology, involving parents, including children with learning disabilities and integrating Catholic values.
``At a national conference for Catholic schools, we were calling for new models to meet the needs of changing families, church and society,'' said Sister Regina Haney, coordinator of the project.
``But we realized we didn't even know what's already out there,'' she told The Boston Globe.
Educators said a key to the ability of Catholic schools to provide for low-income students, as well as for privileged ones, is to find out what works well and inexpensively.
``Solidarity with the poor is at the heart of our teaching, so having private schools only for the elite is not an option. That's the crisis we face,'' said the Rev. Joseph O'Keefe, an assistant professor at Boston College.
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
by CNB