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...Another diversion: The religious ruckus brewing over whether the President, as a Baptist, should have taken communion back in Africa. New York?s Cardinal John O?Connor said it was wrong, ?however well-intentioned,? for a priest to give Clinton the sacrament. Any Christian can take part, replied the White House. But such a no-win debate took them about as far off-message as it was possible to be -- and the week has only just begun...
Mitchell Johnson, 13, found God at a youth revival meeting last September. "He made a profession of faith and decided to accept Jesus Christ as his savior," says Christopher Perry, the youth minister at Central Baptist Church in Jonesboro. Mitchell was new to the area, barely two years in town, and looking to fit in. A classmate brought him to Central Baptist, and the church, for a while at least, seemed to provide a haven...
...Bible is full of men falsely accused and persecuted, and the Rev. Henry Lyons, minister of St. Petersburg's Bethel Metropolitan Baptist Church and head of the powerful National Baptist Convention, USA, says he is one of them. While he admits moral lapses, he says the 82-page arrest affidavit served on him on Ash Wednesday, full of charges of racketeering and grand theft, is the devil's work. In the only interview since then, Lyons, 56, told TIME he was a man at peace--"I can sleep comfortably again"--and ready to fight. "My daddy was a strong Baptist...
...worship, lest it show 200 people clustered in a space built for nearly 1,000. And when he preaches these days, admits Marva Dennard, a Bethelite and Lyons supporter, "he's preaching to himself." One vocal critic, the Rev. Calvin Butts, head of New York City's Abyssinian Baptist Church, is incensed: "He has brought spiritual wickedness into high power." Butts and others failed to oust Lyons as convention leader last fall when the allegations began to appear, but they intend to try again in September...
...current ordeal: we've been treating him like one of our own. Just as black voters re-elected Marion Barry to a fourth term as mayor of Washington after his drug conviction, and black parishioners refused to oust the Rev. Henry Lyons from the leadership of the National Baptist Convention after he allegedly embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars, we're sticking with the President come hell, high water, or a new plague of bimbos. As Jesse Jackson, who has become Clinton's Billy Graham, puts it, blacks tend to reject the sin but not the sinner. We believe...