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...Harry and Eliza Briggs, who lived in a cabin on the Elliott estate, were fired from their jobs and had to move to Florida to find new work. Other black families who signed the Briggs' petitions were also fired from jobs. A black church was burned down and its pastor run out of town. In the '60s, white families, determined to avoid integrated classrooms, built a private K-12 school, Clarendon Hall. Elliott became its headmaster in 1998 and two years later admitted the school's first blacks; today there are just five among Clarendon's 275 students...
...influential pastor Rick Warren, author of the best-selling The Purpose-Driven Life [March 29], may be filling formerly half-empty pews, but I am concerned about one of his five "guiding purposes"--that a person must "act as God's missionary in the world." That purpose absolves people of meeting the needs of their families and church congregations. Instead, they focus on saving the faraway poor and oppressed. Ministering to strangers is often easier and more exciting than helping those we know personally, but many people, especially the elderly, are denied the nurturing love they desperately need because charity...
...like the tacos al pastor. They are pork and they come with guajillo peppers from Mexico. That is the sort of thing that I would eat at home in Mexico every week or every two weeks. Americans may have different tastes, but they love the tacos. And my favorite soda is the lime...
...Taco al pastor (pork with orange and pineapple) with spicy salsa or super chicken vegetable burrito. For the broken heart, any quesadilla, but I like chicken...
...down the essence of Christianity"--there are probably five like Methodist Janet McLeod, a publicist from the same state who notes, "We get our strength for living from Jesus' parables and his mission work. In the Crucifixion, we get our hope for what comes next." Graham, the Plano Baptist pastor, says, "It's like asking which wing of the airplane is more important...