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...take long for Sarah Jackson Shelton to find out how certain parties felt about her 2002 appointment as senior pastor of the Baptist Church of the Covenant in Birmingham--and thus one of the few female Southern Baptist pastors in Alabama. She had been on the job about a week when the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (S.B.C.) rejected two of her congregants' applications to do missionary work in Swaziland. The convention's grounds: their refusal to sign a belief statement that says women should not serve as pastors, a view rooted in such biblical verses...
...good match. Covenant was founded in 1970 during an earlier inclusion controversy, when 250 members of Birmingham's First Baptist Church walked out to protest its denial of membership to a black applicant. Shelton, says deacon Orbie Medders, is "an outstanding preacher and pastor. And she has a nurturing side to her that is stronger than anything I have ever seen in a man. She sets a tremendous example in terms of a broader spectrum of unconditional love, in the way she loves all who come seeking Christ...
...native of Birmingham, Ala. and graduate of the University of Alabama, Wilson was the head antkeeper at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology until his retirement in 1997. He has written books on topics ranging from ants to the unity of all human knowledge, most notably his controversial Sociobiology and won two Pulitzer Prizes in the process...
...arrogant nature of the U.S. forces is all too apparent. Their withdrawal from Fallujah, without achieving any of their objectives, was long overdue and will probably help temper their arrogance. Isn't it time the American military packed up all its soldiers and equipment and left Iraq? Aymen Mahgoub Birmingham, England...
...done," he says wistfully, "you get that dip in the morning when you can kind of switch off, but you can't switch off doing interviews and being asked questions." So why does all the world want a piece of this skinny kid from Brixton by way of Birmingham? His homegrown sound expands beyond garage, but most riveting are his lyrics; he's a switchblade-sharp social commentator for British kids numbed by strong lager, joints and junk food. Skinner is unfazed by the attention; as he sees off an El País reporter and moves tables...