Word: baptiste
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BUBBLING INSIDE those Baptist-cold blue eyes, however, is a heritage of whippings, humiliation, defeat, depression and finally--drumroll--rebirth. Since Mazlish and Diamond finished their book, however, Carter has strayed from the authors' picture of him as a model of control. "Carter's incredible competitive streak nowhere appears in any of the accounts of his White House days," the authors write. This about the man who said he would whip his opponent's ass. And "crisis thinking," the authors tell us, "runs counter to Carter's instincts." A terrific politician, perhaps--but a dismal leader...
Welch decide he needed a long-term outlet for his views, so on December 9, 1959, in Indianapolis, Ind., Welch and 11 friends founded the John Birch Society. John Birch was a young Baptist preacher who had served as an Army captain in China during World War II. Chinese Communists had killed him ten days after the Japanese surrendered, and Birch was, according to Welch, "the first American to die in World War III." The society's basic philosophy holds that "The world is engaged in this war from which either Communism or Christian-style civilization must emerge with...
...steel and blue glass of the Zion Baptist Church shines out from the grey of North Philadelphia. Its beige brick walls lighten the burned out buildings nearby, and a steel cross towers over bent and broken street lights. Zion attracts one of the largest congregations in the area, a district infamous for its high crime, poor housing and racial problems...
...believe if you say a student can't vocalize prayer, you're abridging their freedom of speech," the Rev. Paul L. Pierce, pastor at First Baptist Church in Watertown and writer of the statute, said yesterday...
...Catalina Baptist Church...