Word: deaconness
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...that tragic Sunday morning, Joy had been in the backyard fixing the hair of five-year-old Montez. The twins, Earnestine and Adia, were running around in their bathing suits. Young John, at two the baby of the family, was riding the swing. His dad, a deacon at the Allen Temple Baptist Church, had decided to miss morning services and worship in the afternoon. Reading the newspaper in bed, John focused on one story in particular: an account of a brush fire that had erupted the day before in the nearby hills and that fire officials said had been extinguished...
...such vibrancy, only a dozen graying worshipers attend the Silver Bluff Missionary Baptist Church in Beech Island, S.C., for a Wednesday night service. Founded in 1750, Silver Bluff is the oldest surviving black congregation in the U.S. Noting the total absence of younger Baptists at the service, head deacon Willie Sims utters an earnest prayer: "Father, come back to Silver Bluff one more time...
...word `gut' is definitely a misnomer," says co-professor Terrence W. Deacon, an associate professor of Anthropology. "If you read the Confi and CUE guides, people always complain that the course wasn't like it was advertised...
...Deacon said that the course requirements and level of difficulty have remained stable since the inception of the class, although he noted that last year the weekly sections were lengthened from one-and-a-half to two hours...
...think its reputation as a gut is a double-edged sword," Deacon said. "It creates a lot of confusion for people from the humanities who come in and realize that they're actually going to have to do science...