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...sister of a rising senior in Pforzheizmer House has been missing for nearly three weeks, prompting a large-scale search in the Southern California community where she was last seen...
Daniel said that the best thing people can do to help the case is spread awareness—especially to people living in Southern California—and keep an eye out for either Donna or Burgess...
...them,” Daniel said. “I know that college students aren’t usually in tune with local news, for example, and they don’t watch it on TV or read local newspapers. If there are residents of California themselves, residents of Southern California, just getting the word out, that would be the best thing in terms of helping jog someone’s memory or anything like that...
...America" sort of civil religion but also to talk openly about his own faith. When he used the phrase "born again" to describe himself, Carter connected with millions of Evangelicals who had previously stayed away from politics. In the summer of 1976, an overzealous pastor introduced Carter to the Southern Baptist Convention as the only candidate in the race whose "initials are the same as our Lord's!" And he earned the endorsement of Pat Robertson. On Election Day, Carter took home more than half the evangelical vote, a feat that still hasn't been matched by any other Democratic...
...When Bill Clinton came along, he defied the stubborn conventional wisdom that had formed about the two parties' relationship to religion. A Southern Baptist who could literally quote chapter and verse, Clinton freely talked to publications like Christianity Today, made religious freedom a key focus of his domestic agenda and insisted his staff work with conservative evangelical leaders in addition to progressive religious allies. But in many ways, Clinton's personal comfort with religion and ability to act as his own religious liaison masked the ongoing problems of his party. Democratic leaders were happy to let Clinton sermonize. They...