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...everyone. "I forgive them and feel sorry for them," says Dancy First Baptist Church pastor Walter Hawkins of the defendants, echoing the distaste the pastors feel for the bargaining over their sentences. "There is mercy in justice," says Jim Parker, pastor at Ashby Baptist Church. "When you actually see who did it, warehousing criminals is not the answer. If you want to teach a lesson, let them spend the rest of their lives paying back every nickel...
...PORN STARS on the cover of 10,000 copies of the New Testament. The group plans to hand out the Bibles at erotica conventions nationwide, starting in June. "Whether you're in the porn industry or addicted to it, we, the church, are here to help," says founder and pastor Craig Gross...
David Weikel is certainly thankful that the Patriot Guard spoke up. He was warned that Phelps' supporters might show up at his son Ian's funeral in Colorado Springs. "What a hateful group of people," says Weikel, a former pastor. In the end, Phelps' people were absent, but the bikers showed up. "I love them deeply," Weikel says, adding a sentiment not often applied to the hog-and-leathers set: "I appreciate their ministry in my life...
...nationwide sampling of this week's sermons, the U.S. clergy held with firmness to traditional Christian (and Jewish and Mohammedan) principles on this point. The news from Elugelab did not set off a wave of pacifist sentimentality. A passage in a sermon by Dr. Louie De Votie Newton, pastor of Atlanta's Druid Hills Baptist Church, was typical of the main strain of comment on the H-bomb. Said Dr. Newton...
...pseudonym she used to protect her family in North Korea) is about to meet, for the first time, the men responsible for saving her life. One is Kim Sang Hun, a lay Christian from Seoul. The other is the Rev. Tim Peters, a soft-spoken evangelical Christian pastor from Benton Harbor, Mich., who runs the Seoul-based charity Helping Hands Korea. More than any other Westerner, Peters has become the public face of a network of activists, many motivated by their Christian faith, who have devoted their lives to helping North Koreans, including many living illegally in China, escape...