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Democrats will not have a good idea who their candidate is at least until April 22, the day of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, and even then, may still not know with certainty until late in the summer. Between now and then, the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Eyes on the Prize | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

14. FM: What’s your plan going forward? MG: I want to continue to campaign in the primary, and I hope I can get a delegate or two. If I do, I’ll show up with my delegate, and I’ll try to make...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions With Mike Gravel | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

Thus, Merritt, 25, appears to have made an end-run around some of his Convention's usual power brokers, including its Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which traditionally has a near-lock on issues of national policy. Asked if it was common for a rump group like Merritt's to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greening of the Baptists | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

The most famous conversion in Christian history is that of Paul, who the Bible says "persecuted The [Christian] Way to death," before the "scales fell from his eyes" on the road to Damascus, and he became a Christian himself. Jonathan Merritt, a seminary student with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greening of the Baptists | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

Merritt's conversion may not change the world quite as much as Paul's, but he has transformed his classroom epiphany into Topic A within his own Convention, the biggest Protestant body in the U.S. with 16 million members - and probably one of the least involved of the American religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greening of the Baptists | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

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