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...black women to a secondary position and his sometime disdain for Christianity itself. Many see the march as a power grab, noting that until Chavis belatedly came on board, it was an all-Muslim enterprise. Said the Rev. Bennett Smith Sr., president of the 2.5 million-member Progressive National Baptist Convention: "If you are going to invite me to ride on your airplane, don't send me a ticket after the plane takes off." The Rev. Henry J. Lyons, of the 8.2 million-member National Baptist Convention, informed his group that to march would be "a violation of the Word...
...Angeles' renowned First A.M.E. Church, says he is planning to send a contingent of "several hundred," some of whom may take advantage of a special $299 round-trip plane fare arranged by march organizers. The Rev. Timothy McDonald III, a march supporter and minister at Atlanta's First Iconium Baptist Church, estimates that 50 churches in his area will participate. Travel agents report that flights from Chicago to D.C. on Oct. 15 and 16 are jammed tight. District of Columbia police have agonized publicly over the possibility of dealing with 10,000 buses full of marchers...
Adams, the senior pastor of the Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit, gave the lecture as part of a series of three talks titled "Preaching and the University: Speaking the Lord's Song in a Strange Land...
...decent, its bearers are anything but. Even granting that Farrakhan's Jew-hatred ought to be ignored in this instance, the leader of the Nation of Islam has proved himself uniquely capable at dividing the black community along just about every line possible. As it stands right now, black Baptist churches across America are boycotting the event, along with such mainstream organizations as the NAACP...
...Charles Adams, senior pastor of Detroit's Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, will give the first of three William Belden Noble lectures Friday at 8 p.m. at Memorial Church...