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Dozens of Alabama Baptist ministers are upset over Kmart's decision to stay open on Easter Sunday for the first time in the company's history. The ministers contend the discount chain is exploiting a religious holiday to make money. Some 35 ministers wrote to the Troy, Mich.-based retailer and two store managers in Dothan, Ala., urging Kmart to reconsider. Kmart said its employees will be working short Easter shifts on a voluntary basis and that the company is staying open to meet the needs of customers...
...happen must also be prepared to explain why they do not. Why do some cancers vanish while others consume? Why do people starve if five loaves could feed 5,000? "Miracles can be like crack; you never quite get enough of them," says Clarence Hardy, minister at the Convent Baptist Church in West Harlem, New York City. "The real test of faith is when there aren't any signs; faith is relatively easy if you're standing in front of a miracle...
...officials at some battered-women's shelters report that 60% to 95% of the women they help go on welfare, at least for the short term. These are such women as the San Antonio mother of three profiled in the Houston Chronicle, who fled when her otherwise straight-living, Baptist, teetotaler husband took to slapping her in front of the children. She fled to a shelter, got on welfare and eventually became single and self-sufficient...
...heaping on sentences of 8 to 25 years in prison for each of the 19 additional people injured by Ferguson's fire. "You, Colin Ferguson, will never again return to society," Belfi said. In a rambling statement before the sentencing, Ferguson compared himself to the martyred saint John the Baptist. "He was beheaded by a criminal justice system similar to this," Ferguson said...
...recently attended a 25th anniversary concert of the Kuumba Singers at Paine Hall. What I assumed to be an evening of entertaining gospel music proved to be something much more, as the Reverend Bruce Wall of the Dorchester Temple Baptist Church informed us in his invocation. The purpose of the Kuumba show was not simply to please the ears of the audience, but to spread the word of the Lord Jesus Christ. The singers did so successfully with such numbers as "Silver and Gold," "I Will Go in Jesus's Name," "The Blood" and "He's Ever Faithful...