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...news. Though he has pet causes-liberal abortion laws, integration, Israel and theological freedom-his real enthusiasm is saved for his pet peeves, among them capital punishment, conservative theology and Black Power. His campaigns have led him into regular fulminations against the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Southern Baptist Convention and, most important, his own church. Episcopal funding of militant (and separatist) black groups has led Kinsolving, who once warned of a rightist takeover of his church, into unlikely alliances with conservatives in attacks on Episcopal leadership...
Ramsay's interest in saintly matters begins during boyhood in a tiny Canadian village when he meets the young wife of a hard-shell Baptist preacher. She is thought to be simple by the townspeople, and proves it to the villagers' angry satisfaction by copulating with a tramp, apparently out of pure charity, and then calmly explaining-when they are caught together-that she did it because "He was very civil. And he wanted it so badly." After that her husband keeps her tied up. She takes little notice of this restraint and continues to exist in untroubled...
Gilmore is a Baptist minister. He plans to keep his pulpit while he is sheriff, and he sees the two offices as similar. "I'll just keep on preaching the same old thing. I just won't take the text," he said...
...Tennessee mountain boy who earned a college degree in education but considered himself inadequate to teach. So he came to Detroit to work in an auto factory, then found his career as a railroad-yard switching engineer. He owned a pleasant house, attended a local Baptist church regularly, joined the Detroit police emergency reserve. Of his four children, Sandy was his favorite, a source of immense pride...
Sanctuary's staff offers counseling on the draft, drugs, abortions and other problems, referring people to medical services and psychiatrists if necessary. It also has a research and public information service which is housed in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...