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...United Methodist Church, which has lost 1.4 million members since 1968, would normally welcome most converts. But its leaders must rue the day in 1979 when David Jessup, who had become a religious dropout in college, decided to join the Marvin Memorial Church of Silver Spring, Md. Jessup, 42, who works with the AFL-CIO'S Committee on Political Education, began to have questions about organizations that received Methodist funds. The end result of his curiosity is the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which, though small, can justly claim credit for the present furor over Protestant politics...
...group accused of right-wing bias and "McCarthyism," the I.R.D. has some leaders with unexpectedly left-wing backgrounds. Founder Jessup joined the early Berkeley free-speech movement, and later the Peace Corps as well as black-voter-registration and labor-organizing campaigns. But even in his radical student days he was strongly antiCommunist. In 1980 he and his wife, in what became known as the Jessup Report, totaled up $442,000 in Methodist moneys aiding groups he judged to be Marxist or totalitarian, and sent the list to the denomination's financial overseers...
Through his campaign Jessup met folksy Texas Evangelist Ed Robb, 56, a conservative Democrat and a leader in Good News, an evangelical caucus that had long criticized Methodist agencies for overplaying social issues. Good News promoted Jessup's charges in its publications. A few months later, Jessup and Robb set up the I.R.D. in Washington, D.C., to monitor political activity by various denominations. They enlisted a credibility-building board of advisers whose 28 members range from socialist to right-wing on domestic issues but are pro-U.S. on foreign policy...
...life in one hand and death in the other and weighed the two. To me, death is my only route to freedom." Doris Ann Foster speaks from a small cell at the end of a third-floor hallway at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, a small town midway between Baltimore and Washington. A heavy door marked "Maximum Security" isolates her not just from the outside world but from other prisoners as well. She is on death row and could become the first woman ever to be executed by the state of Maryland...
Elizabeth Jessup Elmhurst...