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Mike, a Methodist from a divorced family, and Kelly, a Southern Baptist from an intact family, each had had serious relationships--and painful breakups. Both wanted this supercommitment. "I know we live in a tough world," Kelly acknowledges, "but, hey, we're in this for the long haul." Their way of thinking is typical of covenant couples, says Steven Nock, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia who's doing a five-year study comparing Louisiana covenant-marriage couples with the norm. Already, he has noted a divide in their thinking about time: noncovenant couples, he observes...
...Cissy preparing to leave for Baptist Hospital...
...Adele ready to go. Drive to Baptist Hospital...
...three men in their 20s, two of them white and one black: Luther Dickinson, who sings and plays snaky slide guitar; his brother Cody, a monstrously talented drummer; and their friend Chris Chew, who adds fleet-fingered bass and the vocal harmonies he learned at the Rising Sun Baptist Church in nearby Hernando. The Allstars spend most of their time on the road (their van, Dirty Red, has logged 53,000 miles in the past 18 months alone), fusing the punkish energy of juke-joint blues with rock-guitar solos and hip-hop beats--and getting neo-hippie kids twirling...
This may seem like theological hair splitting, but it struck some Baptist observers as symptomatic of the leadership's worst faults. When the Bible is interpreted through Christ, a believer is granted a certain latitude, because in Protestantism each Christian's experience of the Saviour is incontestably his or her own, unmediated by priest or minister. The new language, critics charged, represented not just a confining literalism but a ceding of personal power to the denomination's scriptural experts. They saw in it a yen for uniformity and orthodoxy that seemed anti-Baptist...