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...intimate as it ended up. Obama, says Hunter, "just wanted to pray with some folks," and his religious liaison arranged a conference call with Hunter, Dallas Pentecostal megapastor T.D. Jakes, Houston Methodist minister (and George Bush favorite) Kirbyjon Caldwell and Otis Moss II, the retired pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland. But Obama was delayed, Jakes had to appear on live TV, and Caldwell had to board a plane, explains Hunter; so the candidate ended up praying with just Moss and Hunter. (See pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...
...original version of this article incorrectly identified Otis Moss II as Otis Moss III, and stated that he succeeded Jeremiah Wright at Obama's old church in Chicago. Otis Moss II is a retired pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland...
While the others were pulling out, in fact, the owner fished a fresh chaw of Red Man from his pocket, got in the big new Chrysler with the tobacco juice cup affixed to the dash, and drove over to Mount Olivet Cemetery. Down at the end of a drive lined with red-tipped photinias, in a section called Showmen's Rest, he pointed out his brother's grave, his father's grave and the spot where he and his wife Isla Marie would spend eternity. All around were tombstones in the shape of tents, or wagon wheels, or ticket booths...
...almost a century the traditional resting place for Denver Catholics was Mount Olivet Cemetery. But as maintenance costs soared and Catholics began to bury their dead elsewhere, the archdiocese came to fear that Mount Olivet would no longer be able to make ends meet. To help bolster revenues, the archdiocese decided last spring to convert a chapel on cemetery grounds into a mortuary and offer burial services at lower prices than private establishments. The new tab for an average Mount Olivet funeral comes to $1,100 compared with $2,500 elsewhere. That includes coffin, the use of two limousines, death...
...Joseph H. Jackson would most emphatically disagree with Marshall's conviction that the Gospel prescribes revolution. Jackson, pastor of the big Olivet Baptist Church on Chicage's South Side and perennial president of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., Inc. (he claims 6,000,000 members), is in his mid-60s. But there is more than a generation gap between him and Calvin Marshall. Jackson bitterly opposed Martin Luther King's civil-disobedience campaign, and has so vigorously quashed liberal opposition within his denomination that half a million members (including King) left in 1961 to form the Progressive...