Word: methodists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bogged down in the muddy road and had to be rescued by a tow truck. One stop was Grafton, W.Va., pointed out on your map as the "Birthplace of Mother's Day in 1908." I thought I would find a vase of red carnations on the altar of the Methodist Church where the day was first celebrated. Instead, there was a tired poinsettia left over from Christmas...
...spent far too much time trying to figure out how to exempt the good white people while trying to assure the eternal damnation of the bad white people. I went from the Harvard Glee Club, Christ Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Chaplaincy to the Kuumba Singers, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church and then thought that I should have applied to Morehouse College--where none of my time would have been spent teaching Harvard to understand the African-American experience...
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...