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DIED. DEAN KELLEY, 70, vigilant United Methodist minister who crusaded on behalf of God and the Constitution; of cancer; in West Swanzey, N.H. At the National Council of Churches, Kelley defended all believers...
...attempts to communicate with David Koresh by radio broadcast, says, "This group is completely different. These people rather calmly followed suicide as their exit, in a very positive way, to a higher level of existence. They define death not as the enemy of life but as life itself." United Methodist minister J. Gordon Melton, editor of the authoritative Encyclopedia of American Religions, agrees. "In this case they had a positive motive, a great place to go to," he says. "So why hang around here...
...California at Santa Barbara professor Jeffrey Burton Russell, author of the upcoming A History of Heaven (Princeton University Press), says, "I think [clerics] want to stay off the subject because they feel they're going to have to climb a wall of popular skepticism." A spokesman for the United Methodist Publishing House is reluctant to comment at all about heaven, explaining that the subject is "controversial." A brother in faith, the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, whose Foundry Methodist Church is up the street from the White House, explains bluntly, "I'm not interested in speculating on the architecture...
BORN: Nov. 15, 1955, Knoxville EDUCATION: U of Tennessee, B.A., 1979, J.D., 1982 FAMILY: Wife, Kathy; two children RELIGION: United Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer, professor POLITICAL CAREER: Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: 1730 General George Patton Drive, Suite 212, Brentwood...
BORN: Jan. 24, 1949, Murfreesboro EDUCATION: Middle Tennessee State U, B.S., 1971; U of Tennessee, J.D., 1973 FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Tennessee Democratic Party chairman, 1981-83; U.S. House, 1984- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2008, Murfreesboro...