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When he first saw the smoldering ruins of his Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Fruitvale, Tennessee, on Jan. 13, 1995, the Rev. Sherron Eugene Brown could not imagine anything worse. Then the agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms went to work on him. "They took me and the church treasurer to the federal building, put us in two separate rooms and asked us all kinds of questions about our insurance policies, about whether we were behind in paying off our mortgage or if any members of the congregation were angry," Brown remembers. "They were acting...
...Marian Wright Edelman, the youngest daughter of a Baptist preacher, from adversity springs strength. From defeat comes inspiration. If her courage ever fails her, she is not about to say so. Life as she lives it day by day is a series of battles fought along starkly moral lines. That is why Edelman--who helped register black voters in the segregated South, who stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and who gave Robert Kennedy a personal tour to see the malnourished children in the Mississippi Delta...
Last week Van Cliburn was in the midst of a palimony lawsuit, but in 1958 he was preparing for Carnegie Hall after his triumph at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow: "Deeply religious, and a conscientious teetotaler...he gives 20% of his net earnings to the Baptist Church. During Evangelist Billy Graham's Manhattan crusade last year, Van sang in the Madison Square Garden choir...Buffalo Philharmonic Conductor Josef Krips recalls the time that Van came into his dressing room before a performance and said, 'Maestro, let us pray.' Krips, a Roman Catholic, dropped to his knees with...
...fools for Christ's sake...We must pray for the courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world." --Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a Baptist prayer breakfast in Mississippi...
...past, assumed the mantle of national minister for the rituals of consolation. On Wednesday, after sitting vigil with Brown's wife and family, he paid a visit to the Commerce Department. Speaking without notes, the President thrummed into his preacher stance, drawing on Scripture from memory, invoking the Baptist lessons he knows in his bones and letting the richness of his drawl do its work while he eulogized Brown as a "magnificent life-force" who "walked and ran and flew through life...