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BORN: July 2, 1956, Fort Belvadere, Va. EDUCATION: U of Alabama, B.S., 1978; Samford U, J.D., 1981 FAMILY: Wife, Maudie; one child RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Alabama Senate, 1983-, chairman, Judiciary Committee, 1995- ADDRESS: 2361 Fairlane Drive, Suite M320, Montgomery...
BORN: Feb. 15, 1937, Dothan EDUCATION: Enterprise State Junior College, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1983 FAMILY: Wife, Barbara RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Air Force, 1955-59 OCCUPATION: Newspaper executive; farm owner POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1460, Enterprise...
Moyers' belief may also be more tormented than Visotzky's. He has made a long personal journey from the Southern Baptist ministry into which he was ordained in 1954 to the far more liberal United Church of Christ. "I've had the experience of God," he says. "But there's a lot about God I don't understand and a lot about faith that I wrestle with. Faith is too hard. It creates too many conflicts. I think if I myself could do it over again I'd be a man of no faith." There are moments in his usually...
...invokes a curse on Ham's son Canaan that Armstrong suggests presages the slaughter of the Canaanites later in the Bible. "You come out of the Ark...and what do you do?" Armstrong asks rhetorically. "You lay the seeds for a new holocaust." All this is too much for Baptist minister and professor Samuel Proctor. "Sure, I wish that we could have had a story [including commentary on why Noah] didn't ask somebody, "Would you like to come in and join us?'" he responds. But "that's not the point at all. The point is that humans...
...aware of the moral flaws of the book's human characters. But since they regard the entire book as the saga of God putting humanity on trial rather than the reverse, these imperfections will not challenge faith. Nor would they have perturbed the work's original audience, maintains Southern Baptist professor Kenneth Mathews, an Old Testament scholar at Alabama's Samford University who has just published his own commentary, Genesis 1-11. "Moses' Israel would come to read the opening chapters through their eyes of faith and experience," he says. "If one is disinclined to surrender...