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BORN: Sept. 6, 1941, Parkdale, Ark. EDUCATION: Arkansas A.M.&N. College, B.A., 1961; Chicago State U, M.A., 1968; Union Institute, Ph.D., 1977 FAMILY: Wife, Vera; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY : None OCCUPATION: Health-organization consultant; teacher POLITICAL CAREER: Chicago Alderman, 1979-90; sought Democratic nomination for U.S. House, 1984, 1986; Cook County commissioner, 1990-; candidate for Chicago mayor, 1991 ADDRESS: 5730 West Division Street, Chicago...
BORN: Sept. 13, 1951, Fort Smith, Ark. EDUCATION: Phillips U, B.S., 1974 FAMILY: Wife, Pat Johnson; three children RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Medical sales executive POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: Box 795817, Dallas...
Even though Adam and Eve and Noah and the Ark constitute some of the earliest building blocks of a child's religious training, however, it is remarkable how thin most people's Genesis knowledge is. (A quick test: Was the mark of Cain good or bad? On the simplest level, at least, it was good: God laid it on him to protect him during his exile.) True, Bible literacy as a whole is woefully low. In this instance, however, it may be because the Sunday school version of Genesis is a lot easier to handle than the real thing...
...tries to help them. Drinking his troubles away after reaching shore, he is enraged at being seen naked by his son Ham and invokes a curse on Ham's son Canaan that Armstrong suggests presages the slaughter of the Canaanites later in the Bible. "You come out of the Ark...and what do you do?" Armstrong asks rhetorically. "You lay the seeds for a new holocaust." All this is too much for Baptist minister and professor Samuel Proctor. "Sure, I wish that we could have had a story [including commentary on why Noah] didn't ask somebody, "Would you like...
...They started with a Maasai warrior-graduation ceremony in Kenya and Wodaabe courtship rituals in Niger. Then, beginning in 1985, they spent five years photographing the everyday life of tribal peoples in the Horn of Africa, particularly Ethiopia, a project that resulted in an award-winning book called African Ark (Abrams...