Word: dennard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some associates called him the black Pope. On a recent Sunday, Lyons forbade a TIME photographer to take a wide-angle shot of the congregation at worship, lest it show 200 people clustered in a space built for nearly 1,000. And when he preaches these days, admits Marva Dennard, a Bethelite and Lyons supporter, "he's preaching to himself." One vocal critic, the Rev. Calvin Butts, head of New York City's Abyssinian Baptist Church, is incensed: "He has brought spiritual wickedness into high power." Butts and others failed to oust Lyons as convention leader last fall when...
...solidly resolved to put my mark on the convention," he promises. "A positive mark, not the mark that's there now." The convention's board is still packed with supporters. And most of his remaining Bethel members talk of forgiveness. "We don't condone what he did," says parishioner Dennard. "Regardless, we still love him." So much so that his lawyers plan a defense based on the separation of church and state, arguing that if the people of God will not rise against him over church business, why should the government? There are telltale silences, though. The Rev. Alvin Miller...
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