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  Bob Jones Curriculum
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www.pennywiselearning.com /Bob-Jones.html   (257 words)

  
  Bob Jones III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is married to Beneth Peters Jones, an author and seminar speaker, whom he had gotten to know when she played Roxane to his Christian in a campus performance of Cyrano de Bergerac.
, and the grandson of Bob Jones, Sr.
Jones III is also chairman of the International Testimony to an Infallible Bible and chairman of the board of directors of the Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Jones_III   (536 words)

  
 Bob Jones University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The current president of the University is Stephen Jones, the son of the previous president Bob Jones III.
In a 2000 interview with Bob Jones III, the then-president said that interracial dating had been prohibited since 1950s and that the policy had originated in a complaint by parents of a male Asian student who believed that their son had "nearly married" a white girl.
Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover (and against Al Smith) during the 1928 presidential election.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Jones_University   (6323 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bob Jones University president to retire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The 65-year-old Jones, whose grandfather founded Bob Jones University 78 years ago, said it was time for someone younger and "closer to the present generation" to take over.
Jones said he will spend more time traveling and preaching but will remain a visible part of the campus, as chairman of the board of trustees and perhaps as "grandpa" to 5,000 students who attend college at the campus in Greenville, about 100 miles northwest of Columbia.
Bob Jones College was founded in 1927 in College Point, Fla., and moved to Tennessee before relocating to the South Carolina foothills.
www.usatoday.com /news/education/2005-01-20-bob-jones-retirement_x.htm   (572 words)

  
 Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
The Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery houses one of the most important collections of religious art in America.
Originally, King George III of England had commissioned West to paint this series for the king’s proposed private chapel in Windsor Castle.
Any unauthorized use of photographic materials supplied by the BJU M&G by any person or entity, for any reason, will render the individual responsible and liable to the BJU M&G for appropriate compensation and other costs, regardless of whether the individual applicant had profited or is responsible for such unauthorized use.
www.bjumg.org /collections.htm   (448 words)

  
 Taking the Bob Out of Bob Jones U.
Bob Jones preached his first sermons to the rear ends of mules as he plowed his daddy's Alabama peanut farm.
Jones was born in 1883, and born again 11 years later, saved at a revival meeting.
Bob IV got a master's degree in nonprofit corporation management from George Washington University in 1992, but in the late '90s, he told his father that the Lord was calling him to be a writer, not a college president.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/04/AR2005050402413_pf.html   (3074 words)

  
 Kansas State Collegian: Bob Jones University president visits Manhattan 08/22/01   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Bob Jones University enrolls a total of about 5,000 students from around the nation and 35 foreign countries.
Jones said he did not want the university to be like Harvard University, Yale University or Princeton University, which he said abandoned the religious structure upon which they were founded.
Jones said he thinks his efforts and the university's objectives aid students take their faith in the right direction.
www.kstatecollegian.com /stories/082201/new_bobjones.shtml   (493 words)

  
 CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Dr. Bob Jones III Discusses the Controversy Swirling Around Bob Jones University - ...
JONES: Moved to Tennessee after the great Depression, which hit two years after the founding of the college, and there was no money, and people paid for tuition with their vegetables from their father's gardens.
JONES: He didn't say he did, no, but he had me there and we were together on other occasions in a very comfortable manner, and I came to enjoy the man's company a lot and, you know, I have a whole different view of him today.
JONES: Yes, but you know, the Westminster Confession of Faith, which is supposed to be believed by all Presbyterians that have embraced the Westminster Confession as their doctrinal basis, Article VI of the Westminster Confession calls the pope an anti-Christ.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0003/03/lkl.00.html   (7043 words)

  
 Fundamentalist Foolishness by Laurence M. Vance
The president of BJU, Bob Jones III, recently issued a "Congratulatory letter to President George W. Bush," which is posted on the BJU website.
Jones begins by congratulating Bush on receiving "the largest number of popular votes of any president in America’s history." This could be said after almost every presidential election since the population of the United States increases substantially every four years.
Jones then claims to speak for the people of the United States: "We the people expect your voice to be like the clear and certain sound of a trumpet." Actually, most people expect Bush’s faltering speech to continue to result in more and more Bushisms.
www.lewrockwell.com /vance/vance24.html   (1023 words)

  
 Bob Jones at home in Sullivan County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Bob Jones the III, head of the racist, anti-Catholic Bob Jones University in South Carolina, visited Sullivan County, Tennessee.
Jones should feel at home in a county where local government openly practices religious bigotry (and it's undertones of racism and anti-Semitism) as public policy.
Bob Jones claims "the Bible itself is intolerant and true followers of God's word should be as well" is typical of Sullivan County and the Sullivan County Commission.
www.sullivan-county.com /news/bob_jones/bob_jones.htm   (1630 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Bob Jones University is a racially discriminatory institution.
In fact, the tax exempt status of Bob Jones University was revoked in 1979 because of the school's discriminatory policies.
The President of Bob Jones University greets visitors to the school's website with his view that Catholicism and Mormonism are "cults." Its former Chancellor said that "(t)he Pope is the greatest danger we face today.
www.house.gov /judiciary_democrats/bobjonesdc2.htm   (269 words)

  
 features@ugusta: Jones urges literal faith in Scripture 12/15/96
Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University in Greenville, speaks at Liberty Baptist Church Sunday morning.
AIKEN - Bob Jones III warned the congregation at Liberty Baptist Church on Sunday to keep their faith in God but steer clear of religion.
Jones, who was invited to the church by pastor Bob Winkler, assumed his post at the college from his father, Bob Jones Jr., in 1971.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/121696/jones.html   (432 words)

  
 Bob Jones III to retire - Wikinews
Greenville, SC – After 34 years as president of Bob Jones University, Bob Jones III announced yesterday that he will retire on May 7.
The Christian university was established by his grandfather, the evangelist Bob Jones Sr., in 1927.
"Bob Jones III to Retire as Head of University".
en.wikinews.org /wiki/Bob_Jones_III_to_retire   (314 words)

  
 Bob Jones’s True Colors
George W. Bush was heavily criticized for appearing at Bob Jones University, a non-accredited college known for being racist and anti-Catholic.
Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University, wrote a formal press release in support of his college.
What bothers me most is that someone like Bob Jones can preach what he likes, including prejudice and animosity towards other religions, and can shape the minds of impressionable college students, all under the guise of freedom of religion.
www-tech.mit.edu /V120/N13/col13veena.13c.html   (836 words)

  
 Pam's House Blend
Bob Jones III To Retire As BJU President
Bob Jones III, 65, announced Thursday that he would step down in May, ceding the role of president to Stephen Jones, his 35-year-old son.
As he announced he was stepping down, Bob Jones III decried the change he's seen in students coming to the school since he became president 34 years ago, particularly how popular culture eroded the basic values they arrive with.
www.pamspaulding.com /weblog/2005/01/bob-jones-iii-to-retire-as-bju.html   (457 words)

  
 Devoter.com - Letter from Dr. Bob Jones III
Bob Jones University is a Baptist seminary school.
As for Bob Jones University, I think it's a worth a mention in the context of what Dr. Jones wrote, the university's racist history, and the controversy surrounding Bush's visit there years ago.
The scary thing is, Bob Jones, unlike Michael Moore or Sean Penn, actually has influence with some very powerful factions in the United States government--which makes his insanity much more important to take note of, as it's much more likely to pop up in actual policy.
devoter.com /comments.php?id=874_0_1_0_C   (698 words)

  
 GreenvilleOnline.com - Bob Jones III retiring as school's president   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Experts, alumni and students said they expect Bob Jones III to continue to exert a moral influence on campus, in the Greenville community and nationally in his new role.
Stephen Jones, currently vice president for administration and chief administrative oversight officer, said he doesn't plan any major changes at the university, which has been a lightning rod for controversy in the national arena several times during his father's administration.
Jones sees improvement in the relationship with the Greenville community as high on the list of things he feels good about as he leaves the presidency.
greenvilleonline.com /news/2005/01/20/2005012057129.htm   (1329 words)

  
 Bob Jones University (BJU) - A Bastion of Bible Christianity?*
Bob Jones University is determined that no school shall excel it in the thoroughness of its scholastic work; and God helping it, in the thoroughness if its Christian training.
Bob Jones and his fellow administrators fail to see that before their very eyes is a collection of costly religious idols.
Jones apparently did not realize that the over 400 paintings and artifacts in his gallery/museum, much like those in the Vatican Museum in Rome, are blasphemous idols that should all be destroyed according to the second commandment of God.
www.rapidnet.com /~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/bju/fundam.htm   (10293 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Bob Jones answers critics
His reference to Bob Jones, founder of the recently maligned Bob Jones University in South Carolina, has stoked a fire the media has created around the school.
In a document titled, "The Truth About Bob Jones University," the school responds to media accusations labeling the school as a racist, anti-Catholic institution.
Bob Peeler, R-S.C. - Attorney General Charlie Condon, R-S.C. - Gov. Jim Hodges, D-S.C. - State Sen. Verne Smith, D-S.C. - State Sen. Ralph Anderson, D-S.C. Bob Jones University Press is the largest publisher of home-school curriculum in the United States.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17816   (1747 words)

  
 Common Ground Common Sense
Bob Jones University (BJU) is the largest private liberal arts university in South Carolina.
It is a Christian university in Greenville, South Carolina, and was founded in 1927 by Bob Jones, Sr., an evangelist and revival-preacher.
The current president of the university is Bob Jones III, grandson of the founder.
www.commongroundcommonsense.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=3364   (1400 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Bob Jones to Bush: Re-election offers reprieve from paganism
Jonathan Pait, a spokesman for the university, said the letter was placed on the school's Web site because Jones had read it to students in chapel and many told their parents about it.
Jones wrote that Bush will "have the opportunity to appoint many conservative judges and exercise forceful leadership with the Congress in passing legislation that is defined by biblical norm regarding the family, sexuality, sanctity of life, religious freedom, freedom of speech and limited government."
In February 2000, Bush spoke at Bob Jones University when he was running for his first term in the White House.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20041111-1736-bobjones-bush.html   (384 words)

  
 Open Letter to Dr. Bob Jones
Bob Jones University is the Fundamentalist fountainhead and source of the exaltation of the heretical Greek Text founded by Westcott and Hort.
I said that Bob Jones University was "the most important source" as evidenced by the contributions toward The Mind of Man by you, the BJU president, by BJU teachers, by BJU board members, BJU graduates, and other loyal BJU personnel.
The Bob Jones University Greek text is the same text which has been adopted by the Roman Catholic leaders, the Modernistic Apostate Protestant leaders, the New Evangelical leaders, and (through your Bob Jones University influence mainly) by altogether too many Fundamentalist leaders.
www.biblefortoday.org /Articles/open_letter.htm   (8099 words)

  
 Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: Bob Jones Letter to Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Bob Jones III wrote a letter to the President congratulating him on his election.
Bob Jones, Jerry Fallwell and a few others believe they have a monopoly on God and those who differ from their view are going straight to hell.
Bob Jones U is the stronghold of a cultist movement that has helped to usurp our presidency.
www.jquinton.com /archives/002158.html   (9184 words)

  
 Blog Jones: "Bob Jones III Tries to Launch a Domestic Holy War"?
I opened the editorial page of my newspaper (always a mistake) to find a column she wrote about it yesterday, entitled "Bob Jones III Tries to Launch A Domestic Holy War."
Proudly liberal, they were appalled by the audacity - and the illegitimacy - of Jones' comment.
Anyways, both Jones and Mathis have problems with assuming the motivations of the opposing side.
www.blogjones.com /archives/000364.html   (720 words)

  
 Bob Jones University and Race   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Live on national television, Dr. Bob Jones III explains the decision to remove the inter-racial prohibition from the BJU student handbook, thus ending the controversy...
Bob's presentation of this on a public, live forum was an EXCELLENT decision, and one that should stem the word-smithing and editing that often twists conservative voices in our less-than-conservative media.
Based on my personal experience at Bob Jones University, my continuing contact with those affiliated with the school, and discussion with those who believe in BJU's stand, I believe that BJU is in the "well-meaning but incorrect" category on this issue, attempting to take a convenient path that is no longer necessary.
www.troyandjessica.com /article/19/bob-jones-university/rac...nation-dating-policy.html   (5882 words)

  
 Bob Jones University Dating Policy Changed (Associated Press)
Jones said extraordinary national scrutiny led to the move.
Jones III has called for the removal of the Confederate flag.
Bob Jones University banned interracial dating in the 1950s, when an Asian family threatened to sue after their son, a student, almost married a white woman, a school spokesman has said.
www.jessejacksonjr.org /issues/i030500912.html   (650 words)

  
 Taking the Bob out of Bob Jones University
The difference between Bob Jones and secular schools, according to Jonathan Pait, the university's community relations coordinator, is that at BJU every teacher is a fundamentalist Christian and every subject is taught from a "Christian worldview."
At 65, Dr. Bob is a thin man with a warm smile and a friendly manner _ except when he's denouncing the sins of his godless nation.
Today, Bob IV _ who declined to be interviewed for this article _ is the national editor of a Christian magazine called World.
www.freenewmexican.com /news/13460.html   (2098 words)

  
 GreenvilleOnline.com - Dr. Bob Jones III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Dr. Bob Jones III is seen as a national torch-bearer for Christian fundamentalism, but the man who initially resisted a call to the ministry prefers to quietly work for God.
Jones moved to Greenville when he was 8 and his father moved the university from Tennessee.
Jones went on to earn bachelor's and master's degrees in speech from BJU and did postgraduate work at Northwestern and New York universities.
greenvilleonline.com /news/2004/01/03/2004010321942.htm   (365 words)

  
 DVD Talk Forum - Bob Jones III to Bush - Pay Up
Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University, in a letter to President Bush
Bob Jones is missing his chrome-covered balls that have little saws in them.
As far as Bob Jones, I've read a few things about the place and if any of that is true it is not a group I would want to associate with.
forum.dvdtalk.com /showthread.php?t=395981   (2524 words)

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