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...election workers had nearly all arrived by 6:30 a.m. yesterday morning at the College Avenue United Methodist Church in Somerville. The warden, Marsha E. Lavalle, coffee in hand, directed her staff of six to set up tables, post information for voters in the narrow hall leading to the ballot room and prepare themselves for 13 hours of democracy...
...Mike, a Methodist from a divorced family, and Kelly, a Southern Baptist from an intact family, each had had serious relationships--and painful breakups. Both wanted this supercommitment. "I know we live in a tough world," Kelly acknowledges, "but, hey, we're in this for the long haul." Their way of thinking is typical of covenant couples, says Steven Nock, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia who's doing a five-year study comparing Louisiana covenant-marriage couples with the norm. Already, he has noted a divide in their thinking about time: noncovenant couples, he observes...
ELECTED. VASHTI MCKENZIE, 53, charismatic Baltimore, Md., pastor and former journalist, as the first female bishop in the 213-year history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; in Cincinnati, Ohio...
...board voucher has more chance of passage. Indeed, Bishop Charles Blake, of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ, where Draper met with pastors, endorses the measure, which would be a boon to his 230-pupil Christian academy. But the Rev. Cecil Murray of the First African Methodist Church, fears "it would siphon off people of privilege [from public schools] and subsidize that siphoning." Families of the more than 600,000 California children already in private school would be eligible for an estimated $2.4 billion a year in vouchers. People like Draper, a graduate of Andover, the elite boarding...
...result of the Conference vote, Pastor Hall--who has already stopped performing any weddings at all because of the ban on gay nuptials--may feel called to lead Trinity out of the church altogether. That would put Wise in a terrible place. "I've grown so accustomed to the [Methodist] rules and regulations," she says nervously. Luckily, the meeting flows another way. One by one, congregants declare that they will continue to struggle for gay initiatives within the Convention. Alice Crabtree, a heterosexual mother of three, rises and says, "This church is a place where you can bring your most...