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...American Baptist Churches (1.5 million members). This denomination will decide at next week's convention whether to develop a policy statement on sexuality, with specific issues to be defined later...
...nation's growing Evangelical and Fundamentalist churches, in which literalist interpretations of the Bible are embraced and heterosexual marriage is the only state in which sex is without sin. Nonetheless, these groups are taking part in the debate from the sidelines. Two weeks ago, the 15 million-member Southern Baptist Convention pleaded for "all Christians to uphold the biblical standard of human sexuality against all onslaughts...
Last week, addressing the Southern Baptist Convention in Atlanta, Bush admitted that he cried while wrestling with the decision to begin the air war against Saddam Hussein. "You know us Episcopalians," Bush said, his eyes moistening again. "Like a lot of people, I have worried a little bit about shedding tears in public. But as Barbara and I prayed at Camp David . . . we were thinking about those young men and women overseas and the tears started down the cheeks, and our minister smiled back and I no longer worried how it looked to others...
...tuitions can approach $4,000. Nevertheless, minority enrollment in the Catholic system is now 23% of the total, double what it was 20 years ago. "When my son would come home from public school, all he could talk about was who was fighting whom," recalls Laura Williams, a black Baptist whose three children have attended the Academy of St. Benedict the African on Chicago's South Side...
Will Americans buy this Bible? A new poll in the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant group, shows that despite a marketplace clogged with modernized competitors, 62% preferred the complex, but inspiring, phraseology of the 1611 King James Version. Nonetheless, the Family Bible is sure to be popular, at least among those with scant interest in church tradition...