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...grand jury indicted anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill on two first-degree, premeditated murder counts in the shootings of an abortion doctor and his escort outside their Pensacola, Fla., clinic last week. Hill, the former Presbyterian minister who advocates killing abortionists as "justifiable homicide," faces the death penalty. The escort, James Barrett, was buried yesterday. Today would have been his 75th birthday...
Cash's daughter Rosanne, also a singer, says of her father, "Right now, he seems calmer than I've seen him in a long time. He seems right with himself." And he seems right with the fans, in all their variety. At a Saturday-night show in a Presbyterian church in Kansas City, Missouri, which began and ended with a prayer by the pastor, the fiftyish audience in rhinestones and T shirts responded wildly when Cash gave his trademark greeting, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." After the performance, Cash returned to his swank hotel, where a guest in a tuxedo...
This faith has not protected him against attacks by his Baptist brethren. In fact, his minister friends have been startled by the degree of pious animus directed at him from some conservative pulpits since his election. The Rev. D. James Kennedy, pastor of the 8,000-member Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whose religious broadcast is carried on 360 television stations nationwide, earlier this year cited a tabloid account of Clinton's alleged affair with former Arkansas cabaret singer Gennifer Flowers as an indication of the President's moral delinquency. "If his wife cannot rely upon...
...with other things. "That notion just struck an incredibly responsive chord in me," remembers Newlin. She realized that she "had created an idol out of work, had sacrificed my time and effort to it, and it stopped working." She was baptized in January 1992 and began attending Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and working in a homeless shelter. Four years ago, Redeemer was a 15-member Bible-study group on Manhattan's Upper East Side. "I said, let's not build a church for us," recalls Pastor Timothy Keller. "Let's build a church for your friends...
...Rupp, a Presbyterian minister who received his doctorate in divinity from Harvard, succeeds Michael I. Sovern as leader of the financially troubled institutions. Columbia last year faced a faculty challenge against Sovern's budgetary policies...