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Koresh dropped out of school in the ninth grade. Raised in the mainstream Seventh-day Adventist Church, he found comfort as a young man in the teachings of an obscure offshoot, the Branch Davidians, which was a mutation of an earlier Adventist splinter group. The Davidians trace their roots to Victor Houteff, a Bulgarian immigrant who was expelled from a Los Angeles Adventist church in 1929. Houteff had become obsessed with passages in the Book of Ezekiel in which an angel of God divides the faithful from the sinful before Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians. Believing that passage...
Howell joined them in 1984, after he was expelled by a conventional Seventh- day Adventist congregation. Before long he was locked in a power struggle with George Roden, who then headed the sect with his mother Lois. It ended with Howell being driven from the sect at gunpoint. He briefly established his own desolate congregation, living with them in tents and packing crates in nearby Palestine, Texas. But the feud between the two men reached another flashpoint soon after, when Roden disinterred the corpse of a female church member with the intention of bringing her back to life. Contending that...
Staffed by volunteers at Glendale Adventist hospital, PhoneFriend is run out of the chaplain's office on a budget of $5,000 a year, raised by donations. The service reaches out weekdays from 3 to 5 p.m. to kids streaming home from schools in nearby middle- and upper-income communities, including Burbank and Pasadena. This year PhoneFriend expects to take 15,000 calls, assuming there are no national or local emergencies (calls more than doubled during the Gulf War and Los Angeles riots). About 80% will be from bored and lonely children aiming to trade jokes with the volunteers...
...each month now come from black rock-'n'-roll groups. And just last week hard-core rapper Ice-T released a debut album with Body Count, the new heavy-metal band he has started. Meanwhile, Little Richard, who has quit the business several times since becoming a Seventh-day Adventist minister 35 years ago, believes the time may be ripe for another comeback. "I've got what it takes to do it," he says. "If they come and make me an offer, I will come and make it in a big way." Sounds like the good times may finally...
...whether it entangles church and state but rather whether it forces people to join in expressions of a religious belief. The implications of such a change are radical and would call into question hundreds of settled cases. "This will tear the country and each county apart," says Seventh-Day Adventist Boothby. "The unfortunate result would be to create more religious controversy, discontent and disharmony." Says Laycock: "All sorts of astonishing things become O.K. The Constitution then means a lot less than we've thought." Theoretically, Congress could decide, for example, that it would pay the salaries of preferred members...