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...Baptist power struggle...
Jungreis, 45, bills herself as "the Rebbetzin" (Rabbi's Wife) or "the Jewish Soul on Fire." Others call her "the Jewish Billy Graham," but unlike the Baptist evangelist, she does not seek converts from other religions. Her sole mission is to lure, cajole or otherwise summon secularized Jews back to their faith...
...Denton is not a predictable, doctrinaire conservative or a prude. He gambles, takes a social drink now and then, and can swear like the sailor he was. He is an intimate of Baptist Preacher Jerry Falwell, and his campaign was backed by Falwell's Moral Majority. A month after the election he complained to Falwell that the group had no blacks or Jews on its board. Said Denton: "I don't see the Moral Majority supporting the commandment 'Love thy neighbor.' " He challenges fellow Southerners who support a vast network of all-white "Christian academies" that...
...want to be with children who are taught contrary to our thinking." Nebraska authorities have challenged the activities of some Christian schools in the state, but have so far ignored home study in Columbus. Says Warren Rushton, 42, a mechanical engineer and teaching elder at the Platte Valley Baptist Church in Columbus: "It would be horrible if the sheriff comes some day when I'm gone and gives Loralea and the children a summons, when they let the dopeheads and potheads run loose. The dedicated Christians I know are not going to stop educating their children simply because...
...seemed to be everywhere, tearing at the fabric of American society. It was Harlem, then Rochester. Its flesh was the flesh of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Lemuel A. Penn. Freddie Lee Thomas, James Reeb and other fallen civil rights workers. Its soul was the soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined to "keep nigger in his place." And its heart was Selma, Alabama--25,000 proud people marching, hands...