Word: chapmans
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Meeting in the appropriately outsize New Orleans Superdome, delegates blessed the Fundamentalists, voting in as S.B.C. president the Rev. Morris Chapman of Wichita Falls, Texas. He outpolled an Atlanta moderate, the Rev. Daniel Vestal, 21,471 to 15,753. Like all presidents since 1979, Chapman will use his nominating powers to consolidate inerrantist control of S.B.C. schools and agencies. The meeting also gutted funding for a Washington office representing various Baptist denominations in favor of an S.B.C. lobby that will buttress the religious right on such matters as abortion and school prayer...
...Chapman's win amounted to a binding referendum on the future course of America's largest Protestant body, since the anti-Fundamentalists have now lost all hope of turning the tide. When computers had counted the ballot cards, editor Jack U. Harwell of the moderate monthly SBC Today remarked that "the holy war is over. The Fundamentalists have won. We're fixing to enter the darkest period in our history." But Chapman believes the Bible battle has been settled once and for all, and that the S.B.C. "will become an explosive force for Christ around the world...
...organization with which I am affiliated. The members of the Lampoon are already aware of my views, but it is my hope that, in the future, any efforts at social commentary in this community will be carried out in a more thoughtful and careful fashion. Tyler E. Chapman...
...Chapman quickly became a cultural icon. Her short, spiky dreadlocks signaled a move away from pop glitter. Her music, pared down, almost willfully naive, was an antidote to the synthesized sound of the 1980s. In an age when pop singers seemed more like musical M.B.A.s than recording artists, she seemed genuine. Her politics were mushy headed and self-righteous, yet she was an urban folk singer without the fragility of the genre...
Crossroads, Chapman's second album, has been out for five months and has sold 4 million copies. Again there are songs about poverty and the underclass, but Crossroads is darker, more self-involved than the first album. It is less concerned with the political battles of the world than the emotional conflicts within herself. We hear the voice of a young woman who gives more than she gets to lovers who take more than they give...