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...Take the Sermon on the Mount," says Craig Blomberg, a Baptist clergyman who considers himself a conservative Evangelical. "We know it's not a straight, stenographic account. When you look up those passages in Matthew, they can be read in a matter of minutes. Whereas a teacher who spoke to a large crowd like that might have held forth much...
...Southern Baptist, the elder Farmer was shocked by the affection members showed to one another, "hugging my neck," he said...
...many ways in which McDougal seemed to live on a higher plane than ordinary mortals, and it was one of the qualities that had dazzled Susan when, as a 19-year-old student at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, she first met McDougal, 15 years her senior. McDougal, who cut quite a figure around campus with his Savile Row suits, straw hats and aristocratic accent, was teaching political science there, an interlude in a career that had included stints as an aide to Arkansas Senators John McClellan and J. William Fulbright. After a yearlong courtship, Jim and Susan were married...
...fact, all the conservative Republicans, from Newt Gingrich to Pete Wilson, who have sought political advantage by exploiting white resentment should come and stand in the charred ruins of the New Liberty Baptist Church in Tyler, a tiny hamlet 10 miles east of Selma, and wonder if their coded phrases encouraged the arsonists. Over the past 18 months, while Republicans have fulminated about welfare and affirmative action, more than 20 black churches in Alabama and six other Southern and Border states have been torched...
What followed was what one might call Diller's John the Baptist phase. He announced that he was going to take a year off and ponder the future of the entertainment industry, then emerged after a mere six months in the wilderness, if that's a fair description of schmoozing it up with the likes of Bill Gates and John Malone. Diller was now preaching the new religion of interactivity--though, to give credit where credit is due, so was virtually every other sentient being in telecommunications in 1992. Owning a traditional broadcast network, Diller told the New Yorker with...