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...eerie, being up here this close," says Craig Martin, a Waco TV production supervisor who covered the siege from a mile away. He is snapping photos of his parents, Baptist missionaries visiting from Thailand. "I could see how it burned so fast in this wind," observes a tourist from Minnesota, "but what really happened...
...stay out of business." While Governor Ann Richards urged the company to consider other sites in Texas, proposals for tax breaks and cheap real estate poured in from all over the state, including Waco, Gainesville and one other place: a parcel of land in Dallas offered up by the Baptist Foundation of Texas...
TIME: What do you think of the protests against gangsta rap that are being led by the Rev. Calvin Butts III of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church...
Hostile stares and epithets were the least of their problems when Edgar and Jean Cahn first dated. Twice the couple -- he a white Jew, she a black Baptist -- were arrested simply for walking the streets of Baltimore arm in arm. When they wed in 1957, Maryland law barred interracial marriages, so the ceremony was held in New York City. Although Jean had converted by then, the only rabbi who would agree to officiate denied them a huppah and the traditional breaking of glass. As law students at Yale in the 1960s, the couple lived in a basement because no landlord...
...1960s has also increased the variegation within Christianity. Millions of Hispanics have brought a florid, fervent Latin sensibility into U.S. Catholicism, challenging a church hierarchy dominated by the stolid sons and grandsons of Irish immigrants, who now are struggling to recruit Hispanic priests. The bishops also face Pentecostal or Baptist soul winners who successfully target Spanish- speaking neighborhoods. Meanwhile, Koreans have had a notable impact within - Protestantism with their evangelistic zeal and religious traditionalism...