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...forms of Pentecostalism for their spiritual needs. By the scholars' projections, Pentecostalism could claim half of black churchgoers sometime in the next century. The movement has three variants. There are the traditional Pentecostal denominations such as the Church of God in Christ. There are also independent Charismatic congregations, and Neo-Pentecostalists within the traditional Methodist and Baptist denominations...
...nerve center of black Neo-Pentecostalism is Bethel A.M.E. Church in Baltimore, which presents an invigorating blend of rollicking music and old- time religion. The church had 500 members in 1974; today it boasts more than 7,000. The average age of members is 35, and nearly half are men. Bethel is proudly Afrocentric -- a bright mural of African faces is painted over the altar -- and has traded its pipe organ for a jazz band. Pastor Frank Reid, 39, holds degrees from Yale and Harvard Divinity School...
...write an essay about Passau's resistance to the Nazis -- and was surprised to find the gentry amassed against her. Librarians blocked her research; the limit of confidentiality on documents was suspiciously extended from 30 years to 50. When her phone wasn't jangling with anonymous insults ("Jewish whore!"), neo-Nazi louts were tossing bombs into her bedroom. Official Passau saw her as das schreckliche Madchen, a troublemaker in a skirt. But Anja was determined not to be nice. It takes a nasty girl to go after the Nazi boys...
...taking aim at Metzger, 52, and his son John, 22, Dees is trying to cripple an admitted "racial separatist" and leader of a neo-Nazi movement known as the White Aryan Resistance (WAR). Dees, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, was using an unusual weapon: the common-law principle of "vicarious liability," most frequently invoked against employers for their workers' negligence. Simply put, Dees and his fellow lawyers sue national racist organizations on behalf of the families of victims of violent acts, charging that the organizations should incur heavy civil penalties for their indirect role...
...people here who have more in common with the illustrious Jesse Helms than they'd ever imagine. They evidently believe their views are absolutely correct and supremely higher than everyone else's, to the point of falling in with the censorship agenda of the senator and his neo-Nazi friends...