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...Thus the rash TV pastor's pet project would seem to have survived his latest outburst. But his credibility among a watching public may be another matter. The day before the apology was accepted, the Southern Baptists' Land put it this way: "He was wrong, and he said hurtful things, and he?s apologized for them, and that?s the Christian thing." But, Land continued, "Forgiveness is one thing and restoration is another. If I do something really stupid and wrong and I apologize for it, most will forgive me; but they will not be quite as trusting...
Buckham was almost as important a person to know as DeLay. He was not only DeLay's top staff member but also a licensed nondenominational minister who served as his pastor. He remained DeLay's closest political adviser even after Buckham left DeLay's staff to start his own lobbying shop in 1998, and DeLay rose to majority leader. Buckham was also the over-seer of the political operation known around Washington as DeLay Inc., a tight meshing of business and conservative interests that was granted a seat at the table in exchange for putting money and political muscle behind...
...trouble?a few admonishments from the ethics committee, a gift or a trip that a Congressman shouldn't have taken?you start looking for a pattern. We were the first to reveal aspects of the crucial role that Ed Buckham (Tom DeLay's former chief of staff and pastor) played hooking up Abramoff with Tom DeLay's office. We found out that, in arranging a questionable junket to London, DeLay staff members were demanding that Abramoff produce Lion King tickets, rooms at the Four Seasons and other lavish accommodations. And?with e-mails obtained by my colleague Adam Zagorin?...
WITH HIS AIDE ANDREW YOUNG, KING TOOK A midnight flight through Dallas and reached home early on Jan. 15. They arrived late and exhausted for King's morning presentation at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he was the pastor. Some 60 members of the SCLC staff were gathered from scattered posts with their travel possessions, ready to disperse straight from Atlanta to recruiting assignments for the poverty campaign. SCLC executive director William Rutherford's summons had described a mandatory workshop of crisp final instructions--"it is imperative"--but King labored more broadly to overcome festering doubt and confusion about why they...
...extended his research beyond the New Testament to early nonbiblical sources. In 2000 he published a slim book called The Forgotten Man of Christmas: Joseph's Story, which combined biblical analysis with material suggested by his additional reading, along with brief recollections of his own family's story. The pastor admits that it may have seemed a strange project, especially among Protestants, who don't recognize Joseph's sainthood and whose approach Edington describes as "'We don't know anything about him? Then just leave him there.'" But he concluded that "there is great spiritual value to capture, or recapture...