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...what does one do for the rest of one's life?--the simple plan can be carried out in less time than it takes to vote for Ronald Reagan. Here was the dilemma for the Baptist pastors who filtered into Massachusetts and other progressive states, ministers with just a handful of parishioners and tract racks brimming with yellowing brochures. The heathen--Jews prostitutes, homosexuals, Democrats, feminists, intellectuals, evolutionists, rock groups, Communists--weren't too hot on the Simple Plan. But after you've been saved yourself, the only meaningful thing to do is to help others save themselves...
Speaker McCormack a resident of Jamaica Plain, had been hospitalized in New England Baptist Hospital since September 9 with low blood pressure and pneumonia and was later transferred to the Eastwood at Dedham Nursing Home where he died...
...social issues. She called for a constitutional amendment to allow prayers in school; Gunter opposed it. He supported ERA; she did not. There was no argument over the candidates' support of Israel, a critical issue for Florida's sizable Jewish population. Gunter, who is a Baptist, reminded voters that he had met his wife Teresa in Jerusalem. Hawkins, a Mormon, told members of a synagogue: "There are twelve tribes of Israel, and the Mormons happen to be one of them. That's my belief." Hawkins was undoubtedly helped by the Reagan landslide. At a rally in Miami...
...former FCC chairman Newton Minow, Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, President M. William Howard of the National Council of Churches). PAW, moreover, is only one of several groups. Similar alarms have been sounded in recent weeks by the bishops of the Episcopal Church, Lutheran and Baptist lobbyists in Washington and leaders of other Protestant denominations...
Welty occasionally wrote stories set as far afield as Ireland and Italy, but she seems most at home in Mississippi backwaters "spread out from Baptist church to schoolhouse...