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Kathy Holmes teaches kindergarten at a religious school in Epsom. She has been a volunteer for Lamar Alexander since last spring, and points to her checkered skirt as evidence of her commitment. A devout Baptist, she regularly attends church, where the pastor has been preaching on the Book of Corinthians for almost a year...
...ceremony, held at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard, focused on the tradition of nonviolent activism that King advocated before his assassination in 1968. The Baptist minister, a major lead, in the civil rights struggles of the 1960's, would have been 67 this year...
AUSTIN: Finally succumbing to the multiple sclerosis which had crippled her for the last several years, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan died on Wednesday. She was 59. The daughter of a Baptist minister, Jordan attained national prominence for her ringing oratory during the Watergate hearings in 1974 and a keynote address that galvanized the 1976 Democratic National Convention. "My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total," she declared during one of the House Judiciary Committee hearings on whether to impeach Richard Nixon. "She had a voice that sounded like the voice of the Constitution itself," recalls...
...sucked into the overly confessional world of daytime talk shows. In his new essay collection, Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (Oxford; $23; 218 pages), Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as well as a Baptist minister, gets the distance just right. In his prose one hears the fervor of a Sunday sermon; in his ideas one sees the analytic scrupulousness of a man who knows a thing or two about tenure committees...
...True Way Baptist Church, Mayes knows little about the controversy. But she offers up a personal motto: "There's a way out, no matter how bad the circumstances in our lives." She, at least, has found...