Word: forsook
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Across the country, there is a discernible turn back to the church among educated, affluent blacks. As a young man, Baltimore civil engineer Larry Little, 41, forsook religion for radical politics. Years later, he felt isolated as the only black in his Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins and resumed churchgoing, currently at Baltimore's Bethel A.M.E. Church. Many other black urban professionals tell similar stories. Lincoln and Mamiya argue that the resurgence of interest underscores the vital need for better educated clergy...
...date he has attracted several thousand disciples, both ex-Catholics and ex-Protestants. Stallings says he gives eight or ten speeches a month around the U.S., and each time he speaks, local blacks want to set up churches. But the priest of a second African-American congregation in Washington forsook Stallings last year...