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...past eight years, Spare Change has been working quietly in the basement of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church on Mass. Ave. making small differences in the lives of the homeless...
When she walks down the stairs of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church to her basement office, where she spends the day surrounded by papers, potential stories and colleagues, she says she feels privileged...
...meet with the Log Cabin Republicans, the G.O.P's largest gay organization, because "they had made a commitment to John McCain." When McCain said the group had not endorsed him, Bush replied, "It doesn't matter." To conservatives, though, it mattered a great deal. A few days later, a Baptist church in Kentucky began faxing a flyer to South Carolina radio stations, railing against "John McCain's fag army." (Both McCain and Bush support the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military.) The Bush campaign said it had nothing to do with the flyer...
...right, although sometimes the exposure backfired, as it did at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Florence when a woman asked what he could do to help her chronically ill son. Bush danced around the question for a while, talking about the virtues of medical savings accounts, before acknowledging that he couldn't help her. He shrugged in a way that suggested he didn't know why he was supposed to solve everyone's problems. "I'm sorry," he said. "I wish I could wave a wand." It was an honest answer, but it lacked the empathy Americans have come...
...feminization of mainline Christian denominations simply drive more traditional churchgoers to Evangelicalism? No doubt, at least in the short run. Yet there are feminist undercurrents in conservative places as well. To be sure, in 1984 the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution sanctioning women's service "in all aspects of church life other than...leadership roles entailing ordination." But the convention cannot dictate to individual congregations, and the number of ordained Southern Baptist women has increased each decade. Although most females attending Baptist seminaries (up to 40% at some schools) have no intention of targeting a pastorate, many other Baptist...