2007 English Writing Championships
We congratulate the winners of our first BUA
Writing Championship! These pieces
were awarded top prizes out o many outstanding
entries.
The awards for BUA’s first writing championships
were:
Essay
Title of work
Author’s
Name Amount of Price
Have You Considered a Pencil?
José Sierra
$50
Exegesis of Exodus
1:1-14 Giovanni
Martinez $30
Fiction
Title of work
Author’s
Name Amount of Price
Somebody else
calling Lorena
Saldierna $50
Poetry
Title of work
Author’s
Name Amount of Price
The Unknown Hour
Angelica Flores
$50
We Dance
Curtis Castleberry
$30
Spiritual Scarification
James Reyna
$20
Exceptional Creativity was a special award. The
authors had a variety of pieces that were of
such high quality and diversity that the judges
felt their body of work need to be recognized
for their range of expression.
Title of work
Author’s Name
Amount of Price
Between the
Lines
Victoria Pineda
$40
I Would If I Was (picture poem)
Picture Poem
April Puckett $40
Hard-cased Beauty
Stay
tuned for our new edition of
Playroma, BUA’s Artistic
and Literary Journal, which will be up on-line
soon along with a first-ever print edition.
Then you can enjoy more student work and some
other pieces by our faculty such as that of Dr.
Mario Ramos titled “Anteater." The Playroma eZine
needs volunteers to make it a successful
venture.
The BUA Writers Workshop
also needs writers to come
hang out once a week next semester to drink
coffee, chomp on some goodies, and pound out
essays, poems, fiction, and songs. In a
workshop, writers bring complete pieces to read
and discuss or talk about ideas they have and
how to develop them. If you have a passion for
writing, and not just winning, this creative
experience will fan the flame of your creative
talents.
We
Will be Ready: Meet Jose and Josefina Villagran
by
Katie Polcyn, Student Reporter
Jose
and Josefina Villagran came to BUA from North
Carolina in the fall of 2007 with a desire to
prepare themselves for ministry. When God calls them
to serve, they want to be ready. They quickly became
involved at South San Filedelfia church where
Josefina’s brother Manuel Hernandez is a pastor.
Manuel is a recent BUA graduate and he is the
connecting link between North Carolina and Texas.
Jose and Josefina have three children, Emanuel is 4
and a half, Jose Alberto is 2 and Ana Paola is 8
months old.
Jose is originally from Mexico
City. He came to North Carolina 11 years ago doing
masonry and construction. It was there that he met
his wife Josefina who came to North Carolina from
Michoacana with her family 7 years ago to visit
family and they stayed.
In North Carolina Jose and
Josefina were actively involved in their church,
Nueva Esperanza, teaching Sunday school, and Jose
would also occasionally preach. After moving to San
Antonio, their level of involvement is no different,
they teach the young couple's class at their church
and they are involved in a cell group.
With four years of schooling
before them, Jose and Josefina are open to whatever
God has for them. They are currently thinking about
becoming missionaries, planting churches or even
going back to their hometowns in Mexico. Jose says,
“We want to prepare for whenever the Lord calls us
to minister, we will be ready.”
Baptist-Catholic Talks Continue
NOTE: The following is news release
form the Baptist World Alliance describing
the second round of Baptist-Catholic
dialogue in which BUA's Dr. Nora Lozano is
currently participating.
Washington,
D.C.
(BWA)--The second round in the second series
of conversations between the Baptist World
Alliance (BWA) and the
Vatican takes place December 2 to 9
in
Rome, Italy. The first round in this
series was held at Beeson Divinity School,
Samford University, in the city of
Birmingham in the United States, from
December 10-15, 2006.
The meetings are jointly planned by the
Study and Research (S&R) Division of the BWA,
headed by Fausto Vasconcelos, and the
Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity.
Paul Fiddes of
England, co-chair of the Commission on
Doctrine and Interchurch Cooperation of the
BWA S&R Division, chairs the conversations
along with Arthur Serratelli, Roman Catholic
Bishop of
Patterson,
New Jersey, USA. Joining Vasconcelos,
Fiddes and Serratelli in
Rome is BWA General Secretary Neville
Callam, as well as other noted Baptist and
Catholic leaders, scholars, and academics.
The Baptist team consists of permanent
members, and persons specially invited as
“esteemed guests.” Permanent members include
Fred Deegbe from
Ghana, Lilian Lim from
Singapore, Tadeusz Zielinski from
Poland, Tomas Mackey of
Argentina, and Timothy George, Steven
Harmon and Nora
Lozano of the United States.
Guests for this round of conversations
include Massimo Aprile of
Italy, and Curtis Freeman and Denton
Lotz from the USA. Tony Peck, BWA Regional
Secretary for
Europe, will also participate.
The theme of the second round of meetings is
“Baptism and Lord’s Supper/Eucharist as
Visible Word of God in the Koinonia of the
Church.”
The first series of talks between the BWA
and the
Vatican took place between 1984 and
1988. The current series, which began in
December 2006, continues until 2010.
The BWA General Council, meeting in
Mexico City in July 2006, approved
the present series of theological
conversations with the
Vatican.
The BWA has previously held theological
conversations with the Anglican, Lutheran,
Mennonite, Reformed, and Orthodox churches.
