Word: covenanter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
It did not 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...
The daughter of a renowned pastor, Shelton, 47, was encouraged by a professor to preach at one of the S.B.C.'s seminaries before its hard rightward turn starting in 1979. After long stints in such typical "women's jobs" as education minister and associate pastor, she had a difficult conversation...
It was a 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...
Indeed, it is not a discussion of religious precedent or personal moral persuasion that we are having today in the Commonwealth but strictly a semantic discussion of whether the rights guaranteed to the straight can be legally denied to the gay, and constitutionally they cannot. If the word â?...
In the Nikos Kazantzakis novel and Paul Schrader's script, Scorsese has found a story vibrant with melodrama and metaphor. This Jesus (Willem Dafoe) is not God born as man. He is a man who discovers - or invents - his own divinity. And he is both tormented and excited by the...