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...historic victimization of the Jews or the resultant dilemma in the Jewish perception of Christianity, we must still bear the guilt for atrocities committed against God's Chosen People." The high point occurred at Yad Vashem, the memorial for victims of the Nazi Holocaust. There, British Baptist Minister David Pawson preached fervently on Christian identification with Jews...
House Majority Leader James Wright studied the three Presidents with a bit of Texas melancholia. Twenty years earlier he had gone to a small Baptist church in Bonham to say a farewell to a great American, Sam Rayburn. On that day, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson had shared a cramped pew. Wright had never forgotten the moment, and thought he would never see anything like it again. But here before him was a similar scene. Nixon came to Wright's seat and shook his hand. Then he reached back into that crammed cerebrum and recalled...
Once, every affair had its clergy; political conventions still find a Jew and a Baptist and an Episcopalian and a Catholic to deliver the invocations on successive nights. But no men of the cloth take part in Jerry's affair, and indeed God seems curiously absent for all the talk of hope and faith and finding cures. So maybe that's the secret; these people, these scientists and entertainers and aluminum recyclers and french-fry-buyers and little shriveled kids with iron braces on their feet, maybe they can all solve their own problems, or at least make themselves feel...
When he is done, Helms lingers by the door, accepting the pats and neighborly murmurs with grave good grace. But it is nearly 11 a.m. Former Deacon Helms nudges his friends into the air-conditioned expanse of Raleigh's Hayes Barton Baptist Church, and on toward the battle to redeem America from godlessness...
...Monroe housewife). The family led a cozy, righteous life that makes sampler platitudes seem profound. The father, remembers a friend, "was courteous but firm as a rock. People knew he meant business. Young Jesse didn't argue with him." On Wednesday night the Helmses were always at First Baptist Church prayer meeting, and on Sunday morning at services. Fundamentalism perked all over North Carolina after World War I. Churchgoers quickened their step. Jesse's friend Gilmer Clontz remembers: "Everybody went to church. That was the social activity...