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Many evangelical churches see 13-year-old hearts and minds as the ultimate battlefield in the culture wars. If Jesus is competing with 50 Cent for the soul of today's youth, megachurches like Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, are making sure the Lord is not outgunned. Their junior high worship area features a million-dollar sound system and mammoth movie screens that play to an audience of as many as 1,000 teenagers on Sundays. Prestonwood's executive pastor, Mike Buster, makes no apologies for the slick production values. It takes a good show to expose kids...
...Crimson talked to Carter about the lesbian and Baptist undercurrent in her book, why she started writing fiction, and why the political situation outlined in her book looks so familiar...
...somewhat surprised by the strong Baptist element. Where did that come from...
...that same grey morning, some 60 other FBI men had fanned out through the area. In quick, efficient visits to piney woods, farms, back-road gas stations and roadside house trailers, they collected a motley crew of 19 more men?including a Freewill Baptist preacher, a tavern bouncer, a 71-year-old Philadelphia cop, and a 17-year-old high school dropout. The 19 were charged, too, in connection with the killings. Whatever the outcome, the trial will certainly become one of the most celebrated in years?if only because the murder of the three young civil rights workers...
Another King protégé, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, offered a sterner message in a sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. King was not merely a non-threatening dreamer, said Jackson. "Dr. King was not assassinated for dreaming but for acting and challenging the government." He went on to lambaste President Reagan for failing to support any of King's efforts during his lifetime...