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...daughter of a Korean pastor from Derry, New Hampshire and a resident of Pforzheimer House, Song has devoted her Harvard career to writing and thinking about issues of social justice...
...never betrayed by Judas and wasn't resurrected on Easter. Next they'll be telling us that Christmas is the birthday of Santa Claus. Any thinking person must question the objectivity of a panel of self-appointed "experts" who have their own agenda for rewriting history. GARY YAGEL, Pastor Shady Grove Presbyterian Church Germantown, Maryland...
...ideas are now spread by groups under a variety of names--Freemen, We the People, People for Constitutional Courts, even the Civil Rights Task Force--sometimes with a strong dose of white separatism, anti-Semitism and the usual paranoia about a worldwide conspiracy of bankers. In January Lutheran pastor Helen Young met with Freemen leaders at the Clark farm. "It was hard for me to dialogue with them," she says. "It became a matter of them looking at the Scriptures through a certain lens that doesn't really proclaim God's love, but proclaims hate...
...Thomas Grey, 55, an Illinois pastor, is the merry messiah who has built a once lonely battle against a Mississippi riverboat casino into a nationwide crusade against gambling. A Dartmouth graduate and an infantry captain who served in Vietnam, Grey spent 250 nights on the road last year, "networking the fighters--Gideon's army," as he calls it. Whether rattling around the Midwest in his battered Toyota, the Mamas and the Papas playing on his tape deck, or flying on frenetic forays through Maryland, Mississippi, Kansas and Louisiana, he carries everywhere a camouflage-covered Bible. Also in his pocket...
...flame that first lit Grey's fuse was a riverboat casino in Galena, Illinois, the quaint Mississippi River town where he lived quietly with his wife and served as the local Methodist pastor. In 1991, 81% of the townspeople voted against playing host to the boat, but the referendum was nonbinding, and local officials, thirsting for revenue, invited it to dock anyway. "I got mad," recalls Grey. Now, with this nationwide campaign, he adds, "I'm getting even." This hometown fight led to invitations to speak in Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and other states grappling with a riverboat onslaught. Grey...