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...million people are impoverished tribal Africans, most of the political power and wealth have traditionally been controlled by the "settlers," the Americo-Liberians. Tolbert's father was a former South Carolina slave who became a rich coffee grower and rice, farmer in Liberia. The son, a Baptist minister, was the country's Vice President for 20 years under the virtual one-man rule of President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman. After Tubman's death in 1971, Tolbert succeeded to the presidency and to the leadership of Liberia's only political party, the True Whigs...
Evangelicals for Social Action, a low-key group headed by Ronald Sider of Eastern Baptist Seminary, sides with the conservatives on the need for family protection and the dangers of abortion. But criticizing the groups' other views, Sider says: "If human life is sacred then surely this means something about the nuclear arms race, too. In Scripture, the social question mentioned most often is the plight of the poor." Agrees Jim Wallis, editor of the radical Sojourners magazine: "In the activities of the Christian right, all that remains of Jesus is his name." But Christian Voice's Richard...
Because we are both women and Black does not mean we agree on most things. In fact, there are times when we simply do not agree at all. For example, I am a Southerner who grew up in an evangelistic Baptist home, whereas Cheryl is from San Diego and was raised in a Catholic setting. To lump us together because of our physical appearances is the heart of prejudice. It denies our being as individuals...
...conceived by Paul Pierce, a Watertown Baptist minister. Says he: "My intent was to allow prayer in the public school, but not force it on anyone who does not want to pray." The law passed the Massachusetts legislature by a wide margin and had popular support. But many state religious leaders were against it. Some critics saw it as another example of parents foisting off on schools what they should be doing at home...
...into a word processor. Exclamations like "versatility is 'in' " could have been inspired by a Paris fashion show. He can sound as grim as Charlton Heston in a disaster film or as upbeat as a born-again Christian, or, as diversified Third Wavers might prefer, a Zen Baptist. There are also some hot-tub exhortations: "As Third Wave civilization matures, we shall create not a Utopian man or woman who towers over the people of the past, not a superhuman race of Goethes and Aristotles (or Genghis Khans or Hitlers) but merely, and proudly, one hopes, a race...