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Bawling Nonsense? Despite these theological controversies, the Baptists grew together early in the 19th century only to be shattered by the fight over slavery. Church authorities declared in 1845 that no slave owner should be permitted to serve as a Baptist missionary, so the Southern Baptists seceded and organized their own convention. The Civil War brought ruin to many of them. Northern preachers demanded loyalty oaths from their defeated brethren, and many Southerners headed West, carrying Scriptures in their saddlebags and baptizing new converts in the creeks and cow ponds of the prairies. Out of the hellfire tradition of revival...
...come left long before the end of Moon's hour-long harangue, punched out in rough, guttural Korean and translated into English paragraph by paragraph. Outside the stadium, 50 groups of Moon's foes paraded and picketed with signs like A PROPHET FOR PROFIT, and NO SLAVE LABOR ALLOWED. Among the most vociferous of the demonstrators were parents of his disciples, who for the most part lose contact with their families upon joining Moon's religion...
Died. The Rev. Toby Crosby, 122, evangelist minister of the Church of Our Lord of the Apostolic Faith; in Palatka, Fla. Born a slave, last year Crosby was recognized by a society of centenarians as the second oldest American-after 133-year-old fellow Floridian Charlie Smith...
...long, meditations on images in Cuban history. At worst they resemble Reader's Digest fillers, but at their best they are epiphanies. Each one presents a static image or a brief moment. To explain the colonial period, for example, they describe engravings: conquistadores meeting Indians, bloodhounds catching a runaway slave...
...reactions to Harvard, to lovers, to grandmothers, to the question "what's hapnin." There are two tightly-constructed and vivid short stories, as well as an eloquent review of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk. There is even a short play about the emotions preceding a slave revolt in Virginia in 1800, the prologue of which affirms passionately, emphatically "freedom's all I'll ever need...