Word: deaconness
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...Heaven. Carter was scarcely hurt by the affair at the polls. But on the Sunday after the election, King reappeared. He entered the church Sunday-school class without interference. After making a few rejoinders to the deacon who was instructing the group, King was accosted by a churchgoer with a CARTER FOR PRESIDENT button who declared: "There are people who say 'I'm not sure I want to go to heaven because there are niggers up there, and that won't be no heaven.' " About 15 minutes after entering, King was escorted out of the building...
...sunlit surface of this hamlet in its finest hour is clouded by a dark shadow-the bitter split within the Baptist Church over admitting blacks to membership. June Turner, wife of a deacon who opposes this change, talked about the agony to come, and tears slipped from her eyes. Without speaking his name, she blamed Jimmy Carter for pushing their church "into the spotlight, for putting it into politics." She wore no Carter button. Plains has produced a new President for the '70s, but is still fighting a battle...
...Love. Deacon Carter spoke without notes for 37 minutes-until the bell rang for morning services. Then he continued for an additional five minutes. By reminding the class of biblical concepts he had used in his acceptance speech, he gave evidence that he does not consider them at all inappropriate in the political forum. Noting that "God is love" was the first Bible verse he had learned as a child, Carter told the Sunday-school class, "As I put it in my acceptance speech the other night, out of love must come one more thing. Does anyone remember...
...Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church have demonstrated some degree of acceptance for the ordination of homosexuals. In 1972 the Northern California Conference of the United Church of Christ ordained the first avowed gay to the ministry of an established denomination. The Episcopal Church has one outspokenly lesbian deacon, Ellen Barrett. 30, ordained last December. Said Paul Moore Jr., the Bishop of New York, after Barrett's ordination: "Historically many of the finest clergy in our church have had this personality structure, but only recently has the social climate made it possible for some to be open about...
...campaign and was instrumental in engineering a meeting between Kennedy and a number of prominent Protestant clergy in Houston, which defused Catholicism as a campaign issue. Late in life (1973), Cogley left the Catholic Church because of its positions on such matters as birth control and was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, preferring to be "a fully affirmative Anglican than a yes-but Catholic...