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Bishop Eddie L. Long, New Birth's pastor, led the congregation, or audience, in a confession of faith in Jesus, telling the participants that if this was their first time professing faith in Jesus, they had been saved that day. Not surprisingly, within days of the assembly, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Atlanta chapter, joined together to assault the school's decision to bring direct Protestant dogma into the public school system. Editorials rang out for protection of the First Amendment on the pages of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
...James W. Savage, the church's associate pastor, said he can understands what students are upset about...
People who know Seed have strong reactions to him, positive and negative. The Rev. Thomas Cross, Seed's pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Oak Park, believes his interest in cloning is an extension of his Christian charity. "He's committed to human well-being," Cross says. "He's doing this out of compassion...
Falcoff points out that "there are troubling rumors concerning Ritter's ties to drug traffickers"--a reference to testimony at Noriega's trial in 1991 alleging that Ritter had purchased a car for a Colombian cocaine dealer. Robert Pastor, who helped negotiate the Panama Canal treaties and who now teaches at Emory University in Atlanta, agreed that Ritter was a "surprising" choice for a job "where you want a person who stands for integrity...
...sure that the Promise Keepers group, like every other large movement, contains its fair proportion of flakes and fakes [NATION, Oct. 6], but as a pastor, I have found that most men respond to its goals with genuine repentance accompanied by changed behavior, not just new resolutions that are easily broken. It is mystifying to me that some feminists cannot recognize a battle won, as their message has reached the hearts of so many men. Perhaps feminist philosophy is never to trust men. What do feminists want--subservient, feminized men? Is it possible they even want a world without...