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That Bill Clinton has been religious since childhood sets him apart from his peers -- the legions who, at mid-life, are thrashing about for spiritual moorings. Clinton from age 8 has possessed a conviction about his Baptist faith so private that he does not even share it with his (Methodist) wife. (In Little Rock they attended separate churches...
...about how to respond to Gunn's killing. Even groups that have supported clinic blockades issued unequivocal condemnations. "To shoot and kill a human being in the name of saving human life is grotesque," said the Rev. Richard D. Land, who heads the Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. But more militant outfits played rhetorical games, dancing around the crime. Don Treshman, national director of Houston-based Rescue America -- which had mounted protests at Gunn's home -- called the doctor's death "unfortunate." Then he added, with a logic long familiar among extortionists: "This will have a chilling...
Brown, pastor of the Union Baptist Church, first became interested in Cambridge African American history when preparing a paper on Black churches for the Harvard Divinity School...
Folk singer Odetta performed several times, as did the Twelfth Baptist Church Chorale. The service was further enhanced with readings from Marshall's opinions...
...John the Baptist has faithfully served parishoners, visitors and refugees for over 150 years by keeping its doors open around the clock. Like city parks that have given way to the nefarious dealings of the underworld, St. John's original purpose of sheltering those in need of peace has been lost in the shuffle...