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...typical black Christian church today is 70% female. But there are few women ministers, and apparently that is the way laywomen want it. "Though congregations are run by women in support roles, those women say they want to see a man as an authority figure," says James Costen, president of Atlanta's Interdenominational Theological Center. The issue may generate more controversy as the clergy shortage grows. For now, ambitious women preachers are joining white denominations or establishing their own independent congregations...
...build a water-polo pool and a field-hockey stadium on the campus of all-black Atlanta University has been frowned on by some members of the Action Forum, a group of black civic leaders. They call the plans "totally unacceptable" because school authorities were not consulted. Declared James Costen, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center: "As usual, we are being planned for rather than planned with...
Owner Sherwood Costen, 66, a shy retired municipal employee from Point Pleasant, W. Va., raised his winner and her four sisters as wild birds. While less savvy contestants carried their fowl around feet first in the hot sun, Costen cradled Lola in the shade of a thick maple...
After the day's final flight, Costen shyly accepts the $500 check and the big black and yellow world's champion rib bon from Host Evans. Two hundred T shirts have been sold, the sarsaparilla has given out and the Olympic torch is flickering low. Wiping the fried chicken from their fingers, the satisfied spectators slowly meander toward the car pasture. "See you all next year," says Evans, as a state policeman helps the campers and pickups thread in among the giant semis barreling along Route 35. From one departing truck, a rooster crows an unprintable reply. - Spencer...
Last week in Manhattan, Osteopath Perrin Thacher Wilson of Cambridge, Mass., reported that for 35 years he has cured facial neuralgia by repositioning the mandibular joints. Whereas Dr. Costen uses dental crutches to realign the jaws, Dr. Wilson wriggles them into position by repeated osteopathic manipulation...