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...Muslim publication and a gay-and-lesbian organization. The ACLU, the National Council of Churches and the National School Boards Association, among others, filed briefs supporting the university's argument that funding Wide Awake would have violated the First Amendment's establishment-of-religion clause. ACLJ, the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Association of Evangelicals and the Christian Legal Society backed the Christian students, whose appeal was bankrolled in part by the Alliance Defense Fund, a coalition of leading evangelists and broadcasters that aims to build a $25 million fund to aid Christian litigators...
...said that he, a minister, as a "Baptist pimp" represented the top of the triangle he had described, and that the "women in my choir" were at the triangle's base...
...Angeles--is now the undisputed leader of the defense team. He was responsible for convincing Shapiro and Bailey to make up; he will be presenting opening arguments and making trial assignments; and he is the person O.J. calls every night from prison. Last Thursday morning Cochran, 57, a devout Baptist, even called his troops into a prayer meeting in a room at the L.A. County courthouse. ``It became very emotional,'' says Cochran of the session led by the Rev. Rosey Grier, the former Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle who is Simpson's friend and spiritual adviser. Cochran then directed each...
...address to the congregation. Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown, pastor of Cambridge's Union Baptist Church, recalled the famous words of poet Langston Hughes, asking "What happens to a dream deferred...
After several gang members stormed a Baptist church in Mattapan, Solo, a drug dealer, found himself acting as a field advisor to area Baptist ministers seeking to case the conflict between the church and the community...