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...eight years, he is as idealistic and optimistic, maybe even to a fault, as when he began. Usually, Presidents become sadder, wiser and far more cynical. And I think he didn't because he has been sustained by his core Christian values. A lot of my Christian brethren and sistren are very hardhearted toward him because he doesn't conform to a particular profile of contrition. But I think he has been guided, and probably saved from even worse disasters, by his passionate desire to do good. For most of us in this country, he has functioned as a religious...
White folks eat de apple, Nigger wait fo' co' [core] In Sistren an' Brethren, the rebellious singer commands: Stop foolin' wid pray, When black face is lifted, Lord turnin...
...Brethren and sistren" occur in most anecdotes about Baptist preachers. They should occur no more. Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, threetime president of the Southern Baptist Committee, presiding last week over a conference of Southern Baptists in Memphis, Tenn., ruled that "brethren" applies alike to male and female members of the congregation...
...brethren and sistren" issue also confronts the general assembly of Presbyterians, which meets in St. Paul this month (TIME, March...
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