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...step up in their biggest game of the season. McDavitt, with her explosive speed and stick-handling abilities, is capable of making a great individual play and breaking in for a goal at any point in the game. The freshman does not doubt her ability to break through the Deacon defense...
...that unpleasant selection discussion can be set aside now. Harvard has a game to play on Saturday. If the Crimson finds a way to shut down the Deacon offense and break through for a couple goals, Harvard would move on to face either Big Ten champion Michigan or William and Mary on Sunday...
...mood in the nation's most Baptist state supports that threat. The Baptist General Convention of Texas is a 6,000-congregation powerhouse. No liberal refuge, it supported the outlawing of abortion and expelled a congregation that ordained a gay deacon. Nevertheless, it thinks nothing of ignoring SBC edicts. When the SBC demanded wifely subservience, the Texans simply took their own vote and let the women stand tall. And the Texans' patience seems to be wearing thin. Speaking of his organization's $40 million contribution to the national convention last year (roughly a quarter of the SBC budget), David Currie...
Lovers walk together in silence. Most everyone is silent. Two huge-bellied men walk by in shorts and running shoes. An older woman with a modern metal cane walks by; then four tall, deacon-looking men in dark suits and ties. Many people are alone, like me. A father pushes his infant daughter past me in a stroller. She looks up and puts a finger to her lip to signify that one should be quiet. I give her back the signal. We smile in a shared secret...
...child, Mary Fowler was deeply religious but knew women were unwelcome in the pulpit, so she settled for becoming a deacon. After working as an office manager and raising three children, Fowler "accepted the call" in her 50s. Encouraged by her male pastor, she enrolled at Howard University, where she earned a master's degree in divinity in 1997 at age 63. For the past two years, Fowler has led a congregation of 65 at Mary's Missionary Baptist Church in Washington. Her special mission: unwed mothers. Each female member of her congregation takes a mother and child under...