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...divisions in the Plains Baptist Church became critical when black Preacher Clennon King challenged its whites-only membership policy late in the presidential campaign. When the deacons panicked and canceled services the Sunday before Election Day, Pastor Bruce Edwards told reporters that the eleven-year-old policy was "immoral and sinful" and that deacons routinely used the term niggers. At President-elect Carter's urging, the church later voted reluctantly to admit blacks. But an Old South faction, which disliked both Edwards' remarks and the fact that he had adopted a Polynesian boy, maneuvered to fire the pastor...
...denomination also known as Jehovah's Witnesses; after a long illness; in Wallkill, N.Y. During his 35 years as president of the society, which believes that Armageddon is near at hand, Knorr helped build up its membership from 113,000 to 1 million, in 80 countries. A vigorous preacher, Knorr charged that organized religion was working the world's destruction by perverting the Bible's teaching...
Early in 1939, Lindbergh returned to the U.S., now as a preacher. Intervention in the European war, he said at the time, was being promoted by something like a conspiracy of "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt Administration." Relations grew strained with friends and even his in-laws, who favored intervention. His hero's luster dulled. Novelist J.P. Marquand, a friend, explained indulgently, "You've got to remember that all heroes are horses' asses." Lindbergh became the most glamorous evangelist of "America first." Roosevelt compared him to a "copperhead." Lindbergh resigned from the Army Air Corps...
...impulse." When Simms holds up a bank, Charlotte becomes a victim of irony-a hostage without the walking shoes she has hoarded for her trip. The flight to Florida does not produce the expected liberation. Instead, Charlotte's journey is overshadowed by memories of her childhood, her preacher husband, her children. Freed at last from the trappings of her life, she can only think of what she has left behind...
...preacher and civil rights leader in the '60s and Georgia Congressman in the '70s, Andy Young is used to speaking bluntly and forcefully. Although it might seem to be a contradiction, he is also a skillful, persuasive corridor negotiator-one reason why Carter chose him for the U.N. post...