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...folks in Lynchburg, a town like Laramie, Wyo., must seem a long way off. Lynchburg, in the foothills of central Virginia, is a good candidate for the capital of the Bible Belt: the Rev. Jerry Falwell preaches his Sunday sermon in the Thomas Road Baptist Church, one of more than 150 churches in this small city. Laramie is everything Lynchburg is not--flat and empty, a Wild West railroad-stop-turned-progressive college town. To imagine the two cities is to imagine the vastness of America...
...would not have the multiracial, multicultural society we have today. Dr. King dispelled the notion that just because you were black, you could not lead. The healer, the builder of bridges, the one who changed the laws was Dr. King. As a leader he had no peer. --The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, founder and president, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition...
...Paul's Society will give a reception to the churchmen of the University this evening at eight o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House. Informal addresses will be given by the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts; Rev. Edward L. Atkinson, Rector of the Church of the Ascension, Boston, and Rev. William G. Thayer, Head Master of St. Mark's School, Southboro. All churchmen in the University are invited to be present...
...When at Drew University, one of her chief responsibilities and one of her great gifts was the training of ministers. I have every reason to believe that she will bring those skills to help us," said the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian Morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church...
Marketing one's virtue has its limitations. It magnifies each compromise he makes: his opposition to taxing products on the Internet, a big hit with Silicon Valley; his reversal on clemency for Puerto Rican terrorists; his overtures to New York's black power broker, the Rev. Al Sharpton; his sudden support for ethanol subsidies (which he once called "highway robbery"). Then he insists he isn't just another vote-grubbing pol. "When you're a national candidate, you see things in a different context," he says. "I'm being upfront and direct about...