Word: baptiste
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...that so many in Plymouth just knew all along that he would become a minister, because, in the end, it was a surprise for him. "I didn't have a strong religious upbringing," he says, "but I had a very consistent one. I had a grandfather who was a Baptist minister, and my mother's family were all very active, and I grew up with the assumptions that flow from an intimacy with the church...
...American Baptist Home Mission Societies have filed a similar resolution with Polaroid...
...American Baptist Home Mission Societies have filed an identical resolution with Getty Oil, calling on it to remove all its operations from Namibia...
Racial tensions in Birmingham culminated in 1963 when four black girls died in the bombing of a black Baptist church. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, Morgan delivered a speech denouncing Birmingham's white leadership for encouraging a resort to violence. He soon left town--in the face of threats on his life...
...type may not be the most sentimental piece of faggotry painted in the '90s, but it is a likely contender for the honor: a buttery and phosphorescent boy's head, all ringlets and swooning lips, served up on its jeweled lyre like a parody of John the Baptist's head on a plate. Nevertheless, the fact that the head is seen turning into, or materializing out of the lyre seems to predict the metamorphoses that Magritte would impose on the homelier physical world half a century later...