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Kelly K. Monroe, who is affiliated with the Cambridgeport Baptist Church and is a member of United Ministry said she considers the decision "not surprising but yet...unfortunate...
Kelly K. Monroe, who is affiliated with the Cambridgeport Baptist Church and is a member of United Ministry said she considers the decision "not surprising but yet...unfortunate...
Kelly K. Monroe, who is affiliated with the Cambridgeport Baptist Church and is a member of United Ministry said she considers the decision "not surprising but yet...unfortunate...
...That old-time religion faces a stern test starting Monday, at the annual meeting of the National Baptist Convention. The nation's largest black church will try to deal with a scandal involving its president, the Rev. Henry Lyons. Lyons is under fire for a number of sins, foremost of which is using church funds to buy a posh condominium with Bernice Edwards, the church's PR director ? herself a convicted embezzler. Lyons' wife was arrested last month and charged with setting fire to the condo. Meanwhile the reverend, who may also be married to two other women, has enraged...
...churches. Others fear they will be forced to water down their spiritual message and purge religious concepts like sin and God until their work begins to resemble any other bureaucratic undertaking. "The disease of compromising the message will not be felt immediately," says Phil Strickland, director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, the Southern Baptists' statewide public policy arm. "It will be like a cancer that grows in the body of the church until the health of the church is compromised." At the same time Governor Bush is encouraging Texas churches to participate in government human-services programs, Strickland...