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Following a June recommendation by the Board of Ministry, Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Pusey minister for Memorial Church, announced in early July that the Church will allow same-sex commitment ceremonies, but Gomes said he believes it is "too early really to tell" what the decision will mean at Harvard and beyond...
...That old-time religion faces a stern test starting Monday, at the annual meeting of the National Baptist Convention. The nation's largest black church will try to deal with a scandal involving its president, the Rev. Henry Lyons. Lyons is under fire for a number of sins, foremost of which is using church funds to buy a posh condominium with Bernice Edwards, the church's PR director ? herself a convicted embezzler. Lyons' wife was arrested last month and charged with setting fire to the condo. Meanwhile the reverend, who may also be married to two other women, has enraged...
...poverty may be over, its soldiers in disarray and retreat, but the Rev. Floyd Flake, who is a departing member of Congress, seems not to have got the news. Flake's Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., with 9,000 members and a towering new $23 million cathedral, operates a government-funded social-services network that would be the envy of many municipal governments. The church's 30,000-sq.-ft. social-services center houses a city-funded walk-in clinic and federal Head Start classrooms at street level. On the center's second floor are a city...
...spiritual renewal is better at turning troubled lives around, and there's some evidence for that. "No matter how much counseling, no matter how much social work we put into someone, until we give them something spiritual to fill that void, they won't really change," says the Rev. Ralph E. Williamson, a minister on the staff of the Mecklenburg County, N.C., department of social services with 23 years' experience in the field. "I always tell people that I can't bring salvation through the department of social services." In fact, many programs that aim at life transformation--most notably...
...different. Welfare recipients may soon be forced to pray in order to receive benefits, they say, or to watch religious videos while they wait to talk to their caseworker. "I'm worried we will see tax dollars being used to evangelize as well as provide social services," says the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State...