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...Sunday morning in Sacramento's Meadowview community, and hundreds of Russian-speaking immigrants--men in dark suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game--are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish-language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...
...Most Segregated Hour It is Sunday morning in Sacramento's Meadowview community, and hundreds of Russian-speaking immigrants-men in dark suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game-are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish- language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...
Have archaeologists discovered the skeleton of John the Baptist? Don't send for your color slides yet, but it's possible. Last year scholars combing a graveyard at the Qumran site in the West Bank, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, turned up an elaborate burial mound and some bones, which they theorized belonged to the Teacher of Righteousness--the leader of the Essene sect thought to have assembled the scrolls. The Teacher has long been felt by some scholars to be John the Baptist, since John's Messianic Judaism and stress on immersion were strikingly similar to Essene...
...Hartford, was a pot in the style of the 1st century A.D., which places the find in the right era. "There are 1,212 burials at Qumran, but there's only one like this," says Freund. He thinks the bones belong to the Teacher and, therefore, perhaps are the Baptist's. Others are skeptical, pointing out that the skeleton has a head, while John's was famously removed. Expedition archaeologist Magen Broshi fumes that the identification amounts to "shameless publicity seeking." Freund has sent out teeth for carbon dating. Says project official Robert Eisenman, the discovery of a leader...
Others, already believers, have come away from this past winter feeling a need to change tactics, change jobs, find a new way to get the urgent message across. Rick Scarborough, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Pearland, Texas, a Houston suburb, resigned his pulpit this month to put all his energy into recruiting Christians to become politically involved. "I am mobilizing Christians and getting more Christians to vote. I am preparing a beachhead of righteousness," he says. Meanwhile Wyoming state senator Carroll Miller, a popular legislator from Big Horn County, announced his retirement from politics in part so that...