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This is the home of sowbelly breakfasts and the Better Baptist Bureau, where the folks will tell you that lying is a hell of a better time than telling the truth and "Patsy Cline never dies." Co-stars Joe Sears and Jaston Williams' talent for spinning tall-tales generates a community of pokey, parched lives whose regional prejudices do their best to convince you that this is the town the Enlightenment overlooked...
Cambridge Food Co-op's Tenth Birthday Celebration Concert: Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Friday...
...thought it was just wonderful," said Julia Wallace, a member of the Sanctuary Task Force at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...
...reasons are simpler for people like Chandler Robinson of Fort Worth, a retired engineer, who with Wife Julie forsook his lifelong Episcopal affiliation to join a conservative Baptist church. Says he: "The more we found ourselves maturing in Christianity the more disappointed we became with the spiritual food we were receiving. We were looking for someone to teach us out of the Bible." The Rev. W.A. Criswell of Dallas, 76, the leonine patriarch of the Southern Baptists' insurgent Fundamentalist wing and pastor of their largest congregation, charges that liberal theology "empties the churches. Wherever liberalism places its leprous hand, there...
...certainty of its answers to religious questions. They profess its power to make life meaningful and wholesome, to provide clear moral guidance and to offer a sense of spiritual redemption through Jesus Christ. "People are hungering for truth," says Contractor Calvin Beeler, who worships at a small Berean Baptist church near Charlottesville, Va. Baptist Susan Baker of Del City, Okla., who was widowed this year at age 25, testifies that faith pulls her through her grief: "I never do feel like I'm alone. It's like all the pieces have been put together...