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...package, which led auditors to check her books more closely. "The fact that this amount of money could be siphoned from church coffers in such a brief period while nobody noticed is simply extraordinary," says Ostling. He reports that the money went to slush funds she controlled with her pastor husband, two houses, jewelry, childrens' tuition and an occasional limousine rental. Even as the Cookes allegedly were raiding the till, says Ostling, dwindling donations had forced the 2.5 million-member denomination to cut its national office staff by a third...
...OAKHURST PRESBYTERIAN Church, there's a black Jesus in front, a white Jesus in back and folks of both colors in between. The black Jesus depicted on a stained-glass window in front used to be white, but the pastor of Oakhurst, the Rev. Gibson Stroupe, and his wife Caroline Leach tinted the once pink portrait brown. Both Leach and Stroupe are white, and she admits "we did get some flak" for the racial alteration. There were those who thought Oakhurst was caving in to the dogmatizers of diversity, the whistle blowers of melanin management. Some chose to leave...
Father Richard J. Brady, pastor of St. Joseph's, said the archdiocese has shown sensitivity by removing all religious icons and inscriptions from the building's interior...
Making the System Work: Urban Violence and Legal Solutions. Featured speakers include the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president and founder, National Rainbow Coalition; the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York; and the Hon. Glenda Hatchett Johnson, chief presiding judge, Fulton County Juvenile Court, Georgia. Preregistration is required. $55 for students. Call 628-1530 or 491-4401 for more information. Through Saturday...
...their CCW laws, citizens may have to endure background checks and waiting periods to procure their handguns, but most will also be able to remove them from their dresser drawers and carry them on a car seat, on strolls to their children's soccer practices or even (unless the pastor objects) to church...