Word: baptists
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...Price paid at auction for a 1975 Ford Escort GL once owned by Pope John Paul II, bought by a millionaire Baptist from Houston $244,000 Price paid by a U.S. casino in May for a 1999 Volkswagen Golf once owned by Pope Benedict...
...Falls Church, a 273-year-old Episcopal congregation near Washington that has a number of Bush Administration luminaries in its pews. Falls Church is a Democratic oasis, but these were his people. "In Falls Church, of all places, a landslide!" Kilgore said delightedly before heading inside. He is Baptist, but joined fellow parishioners in kneeling for prayers. The service ran long and so he sneaked out the side after receiving Communion and headed to McLean Bible Church, a non-denominational mega-church where he was greeted with applause at the Welcome Center...
...many hide their affiliations, reluctant to mix religion and work and also to reinforce stereotypes. Angela Williams, 42, a vice president and deputy general counsel at Sears Holding Corp. and a former federal prosecutor, never talked at the office about the fact that she is an ordained Baptist minister. "It's the same reason you don't wear dreads or let slip some slang," she says. "As a minority executive, you want to be plain vanilla. You don't want them to know you're struggling with child-care issues. You don't want to take vacations...
...would prove too formidable. Rodin had rethought the human body more thoroughly than any sculptor since Michelangelo and made it the vessel of passions-pain, pathos, ecstasy-that the increasingly insipid conventions of 19th century statuary could not contain. That is immediately apparent in his magnificent Saint John the Baptist, a lean, striding nude who bears no attributes of the saint-no lamb, no staff-so that the saint's spiritual force is expressed entirely in the headlong power of his anatomy...
Davis and I met in July at Exodus' first ever Youth Day, held at a Baptist convention center outside Asheville, N.C. About 100 people ages 15 to 25 were there to worship, sway their arms to Christian rock, listen to advice about how to stop masturbating ("Replace thoughts that aren't worthy of God with thoughts that are," Davis said) and hear the testimony of adults who say they now live heterosexual lives...