Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 100 activists met last night at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church to plan a Saturday demonstration against the recent escalation of U.S. involvement in Central America...
...February 22, amid floating balloons and descending banners in Cambridge's First Baptist Church, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) announced that a majority of the University's 4000 support staff members had handed signed pieces of paper to the union. Pieces of paper which are the first step in determining whether Harvard's clerical and technical workers--the people who assist professors and work in labs and administrative offices--will have a union...
...Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christians divide 44% for Bush, 30% for Dole and only 14% for Robertson. Jackson attracts overwhelming support from blacks, churchly and secular, because his message is that of economic populism. Moralism dominates Robertson's pitch, even though he now avoids mentioning his long membership in the Baptist ministry...
...last week after approving a New York City plan to fight AIDS by providing drug addicts with sterile needles. The controversial program, which could begin as early as this spring, has sparked vehement protests from law-enforcement agents, clergymen and politicians. Says the Rev. Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem: "To distribute needles is to cooperate with evil. It is a step to legitimatizing heroin...
Andrew Gardner, who plays the dual role of John the Baptist and Judas, is one of Harvard's best musical comedy stars, but he has trouble overcoming his part's split personality. Having won the audience's admiration as a sweet and likable character in the first part of the show, Gardner is less convincing as Jesus' betrayer. He is simply too nice to have sold someone to the Romans for thirty pieces of silver. Still, when he sings the show's opening number, "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord," the audience knows the production is going...