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...defense, Reeves claimed that four of the 275 expenses were justified. For example, he said he had paid St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal $150 to purchase 10 copies of the church's history of Cambridge for the city's public libraries...
...heavily armed police officers, clad in black combat fatigues, smashed into the second-floor Boston apartment in search of guns and coke. They found only a frail 75-year-old man, who retreated into a bedroom. They ran him down and handcuffed him. The old man, a retired Methodist minister who read his Bible daily and abhorred violence, vomited and suffered a heart attack -- a fatal one. He was literally scared to death...
...They should be able to know the difference between decent, God-fearing people and the criminals," thundered the Rev. Albert J.D. Aymer at Parkway United Methodist Church. "Reverend Williams is dead today because of a society that has gone stark mad," he declared. It is one, however, that still acknowledges remorse. Last week Boston's mayor, Thomas Menino, and police commissioner Paul Evans appeared at a community meeting to take the heat. "It is historic for a mayor and police commissioner to come out and say, 'I'm sorry,' " says Rodney Foxworth, co-chairman of a neighborhood council. The mayor...
Afrocentrist myths have taken hold in higher education as well, extending beyond black-studies courses. In one of the required multicultural courses for freshmen at Southern Methodist University, for example, the Rev. Clarence Glover, director of intercultural education and minority affairs, tells students that melanin content generates certain emotional reactions. He suggests that those with little melanin and a Nordic background are "member- object" oriented: they rely on objects like warm clothing made of animal skins to survive. But Africans, with more melanin, he says, "have a 'member- member' orientation and value human relationships more than objects...
...former." Other scholars question the use of the Thomas and the hypothetical Q. The effect is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope at a vanishing Jesus. In his forthcoming The Gospel of Jesus (Westminster), William R. Farmer, professor emeritus of the New Testament at Southern Methodist University, decries the latest Q theory because it leads to the bizarre conclusion that "the death and resurrection of Jesus was . . . of little or no importance" to his disciples. Meanwhile, N.T. Wright, an Oxford University teacher and newly named cathedral dean in Lichfield, England, says it is a "freshman mistake...