| 单词 | Baptist |
| 例句 | It must of been a relief to the Baptists when she didn’t appear, because nobody knew whether to treat her like a grave robber or just a repentant sinner. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Brother Belie Jones, the Baptist preacher, said God just wasn’t ready to take her Home, praise Jesus, or else He had something more for her to do here before she passed into the Great Beyond. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Cabot Searcy, having been raised in a Southern Baptist church in Georgia, had little knowledge of this text before this first encounter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The Baptists considered themselves above the rest of us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She was like Baby Moses in the Bible stories they read to us at the Baptist Literary Glass. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The worship service was about to begin at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sunday morning, September 15, 1963. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It stood at the end of Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, across the street from the historic Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had pastored during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On his end, my father, Andrew McBride, a Baptist minister, had his doubts about the world accepting his mixed family. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a Democrat, a Baptist, and a devout Confederate veteran. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Edna came in crying, her eyes swollen red, to tell her that white people had bombed the black Baptist church in her hometown. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I remembered the many times I’d heard him speak from the pulpit of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Sixteenth Street Baptist Church gave each dead girl’s family some funds to bury their daughter. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She was the eldest child of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the firebrand Baptist preacher and increasingly powerful political leader. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Baptist and C.M.E. churches went down front and assumed stances a few feet apart. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That is one pet project of the Reverend’s: getting other Baptists to swallow the Apocrypha. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa even wondered if maybe Grandpa gave some money to the Baptist church to get it done right, but Mama said that idea was far-fetched—“stingy as Pa is.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But protesters rejoiced in a mass meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church, a celebration tempered by the realization that they would have to keep walking at least until the city’s appeal reached Washington. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I was long and leggy and mosquito-thin, a record-breaking twenty-five inches at Baptist Hospital. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z His family belonged to a Baptist church, and he sang in its choir and believed in the doctrines. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z One year when I was in high school, Reverend Cross asked me to represent our church at the National Baptist Convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And the Hutchinson Street Baptist Church, which Claudette faithfully attended, was a church for the working poor. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z This is not the regular Baptist stipend; Our Father is a renegade who came without the entire blessing of the Mission League, and bullied or finagled his way into this lesser stipend. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her day began at 2:30 a.m. when she drove to Green Street Baptist Church where the meals were prepared. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman full of fun and life, she sat in the back pews of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church congregation on Sunday mornings and whistled the hymns while everybody else sang them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z According to my Baptist Sunday-school teachers, a child is denied entrance to heaven merely for being born in the Congo rather than, say, north Georgia, where she could attend church regularly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Rev. Owens’s Whosoever Baptist Church she loved, though he wasn’t her favorite minister because he left his wife, or vice versa—we never knew. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But like the Southern Baptists and other conservative denominations, the Assemblies gradually dropped their separatist strictures as their membership prospered and spread. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Her dad was a Baptist preacher and resented me going with her. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z His father’s told him that he’s following in the footsteps of Jesus, who was baptized in the River Jordan by John the Baptist. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I’ve only seen a handful of folks walking around the town, but the church is easily the size of the First Baptist, the second largest church in Baltimore. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Marian never missed a Sunday at Union Baptist Church with either the junior or senior choir. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z One afternoon Reverend Ralph Abernathy, the pastor of the First Baptist Church, called our house and invited me to a private reception there. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Besides, when I asked Mother if I could go to the Baptist college library with a friend, I wouldn’t be telling a lie—at least, not altogether. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes referred to as the “Wild Man from Birmingham,” Shuttlesworth has been described as an “unpolished, rabble-rousing Baptist preacher.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It resounded in the sanctuaries of First Baptist and Queen Street Baptist and Bethel AME and thousands of black churches around the country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Somebody I know said she heard this “folksinger” guy is really a Baptist from Alabama. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Surely you’re not suggesting using the baptistry,” said Mrs. Larkin, a staunch Baptist and lifelong member of the First Baptist Church. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Partly because most of them are Baptists and Momma ain’t too keen on Baptists, being a staunch Presbyterian and all. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z At the end of the block, the Baptist choir was rehearsing Christmas carols, their rich voices spilling out into the neighborhood from the open church door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I wondered about the safety of Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, the fearless Civil Rights advocate and the pastor of Birmingham’s Bethel Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The preachers and congregations jumped even higher and shouted even louder than the Baptists I had known. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mama’s a Baptist, too, but she what you call a sore-feet Baptist. Your feets get sore enough, those mojo ladies start looking pretty good. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Kiowa, a devout Baptist, carried an illustrated New Testament that had been presented to him by his father, who taught Sunday school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z During those weeks and months after the bombing, I kept on helping Pastor Cross while we waited for workers to complete the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church renovations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A group of Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Universalist ministers—all men—dominated the discussion that day, challenging the women’s rights resolutions that had been presented. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z That afternoon, I rode my bike over to the Baptist church. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For more than half a century, the kind face of Jesus had looked down on its worshipers at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and had offered them that same security. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Once we got to the lake he waded in, up to his knees, and beckoned dramatically like Saint John the Baptist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “You go to Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Baptists are the establishment,” said Mark A. Chaves, a sociologist at the University of Arizona. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After we passed the Antioch Baptist Church, I couldn’t stand watching him think any longer. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I prepare myself for a Baptist service, and try to remember what makes it different from the other church services I’ve been to. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The Bloods stood all along the back wall of Cornerstone Baptist. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After the bomb exploded on September 15, 1963, shaking the church’s foundation and shattering its windows, people gave funds to repair Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The same taxi that took Trotter and the children to the white Baptist church dropped him off on the way and picked him up on the way home. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z So I said we could walk around the block near the Baptist college. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And he has been considering the example of his future father-in-law, Daniel Chalmers, a Baptist missionary to the Philippines who ended up building power plants there and making a small fortune. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z On Tuesday, a funeral service was held in the modest redbrick Ebenezer Baptist Church where his father had presided for three decades, and in which young “M. L.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I never saw Mommy “get happy” at Whosoever Baptist, meaning “get the spirit” and lose control—thank God. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At Union Baptist Church, Marian heard a gospel of dignity and pride. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Judging by the way the brother cut his eyes at me, his appearance on the steps of First Baptist Church seemed highly unlikely. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the October 1994, fortieth-anniversary gala of the New Brown Memorial Baptist Church, and a deacon stands before the audience to muster them up for prayer. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She would be at Friendship Baptist until six. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The celebration of my father’s life took place at the Fourteenth Street Baptist Church, the same church my parents had been married in six years earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z How is it different from Grandfather God sending the African children to hell for being born too far from a Baptist Church? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They aren’t even Baptists, I heard Father say; they just oversee the financial affairs for the Mission League since so many people have pulled out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z No, he was a Baptist and I had the suspicion that he would not be quite able to comprehend why a black boy would want to read Mencken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The service was held at nearby Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, since our church was closed for repairs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That was a religion, the same as Baptist or Catholic or Jew. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z With $4 million in the Sixteenth Street Foundation Inc. treasury, I told Jerome, “Now there will always be resources to maintain Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, to keep it alive, to keep telling the story.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He is writing a learned article on this subject for the Baptist scholars back home. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Baptist church looked a lot like the Methodist one we went to, pews, altar, a couple of stained glass windows. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I had shrugged off my aunt and uncle’s strict Baptist teachings years before. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In 2006, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church became a national historic landmark. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She had been brought up a Southern Baptist in suburban Baton Rouge with dreams of leaving home—she did so just after high school—and running a daycare center. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Before darkness fell on the night of September 15, the reverend and his deacons closed the front doors of the wonderful old Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Faster and faster until it rose right up through the ceiling and out the roof of Rocky Creek Baptist Church, disappearing into the sky and leaving me there in the fellowship hall with a stomachache. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It is an interesting precept on which to found a ministry: The First Evangelical Baptist Church of the Twin-Prone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother was a librarian at Baptist College and sometimes taught classes at other schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One year Sixteenth Street Baptist Church formed a church tennis team. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A sign announced a gospel sing at the Mount Zion Baptist Church that took place back in 1957, if anyone wanted to know. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But they turned Mama out of the Baptist communion just the same, and her only seventeen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z All brought by other brave Baptists before us, though it is hard to see quite how, unless one envisions a time when other means of travel were allowed, and more than forty-four pounds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom attended a local Baptist church with his family, and the preacher said that everyone was a sinner—even Emmett, the upholder of justice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The priest laughed, said he had never seen the likes, that the child was a regular little Baptist now and hardly needed a priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We walked all the way out to the Open Arms Baptist Church of Naomi. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Schoolchildren, from first graders to high school seniors, stood up straight and tall in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church sanctuary and offered themselves as “living sacrifices”3 to the cause of freedom and fairness. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Every day, 365 days a year, people come from all over the world to visit Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Her having married a Baptist, Cold Sassy naturally expected her to show up there that morning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I mean, my mom goes to Clover City First Baptist, and so do I on holidays. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “We are here from the Bumblebee Baptist Church.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was the first black church built in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He remembered suddenly a conversation with a Southerner a long time ago, before the war, a Baptist minister. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At that first meeting at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the strategy for the march was clearly laid out. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z From the pulpit of White Rock Baptist Church, King joined the student crusade on the evening of February 16. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z One month later we had a ceremony in the First Chinese Baptist Church, where we met. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My own baptism, and every one I have witnessed so far, took place in something like a large bathtub or small swimming pool in the Baptist Church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His mom had him up in the Baptist church on Sundays and Wednesdays, just like mine. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The next morning, May 3, hundreds of children skipped school and met again at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Sixteenth Street Baptist Church underwent renovations, and most of our members met weekly for worship at the nearby L. R. Hall Auditorium. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Claudette’s church, Hutchinson Street Baptist, was dynamited, its stained-glass windows blown to pieces. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z His parents were Southern Baptists and religious fundamentalists, unusual at the time in Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We passed by Friendship Baptist without Uncle Darnell making mention of the Arabian Knight or his sword, plastered into the yellow brick face of the church. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Along with two friends, he headed about ten miles away to Geauga Seminary, a school of 250 students run by the Free Will Baptist religious denomination. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He knew I belonged to Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, but I didn’t tell him I had witnessed the 1963 bombing and the deaths of my friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z From her mouth issued a torrent of words, a roiling sermon on injustice, inequality, and divine retribution worthy of the Baptist preachers of her youth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Gilly noted that the black Baptists dressed fancier and smiled more than the whites. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Five minutes later, at the Baptist Hospital, I come around and help her out of the car. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Born in 1664, he was an ironmonger in Dartmouth, Devon, and an elder in the local Baptist Church. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Half of the travelers wore blue and white T-shirts that declared them Young Saints of Shiloh Baptist from Queens. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z We didn’t have any in Sylvan—only Baptists and Methodists—but we got instructions in case we met them in our travels. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The society was composed of a group of white-haired American missionary ladies from the First Chinese Baptist Church. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It did occur to me to find it strange for a Baptist minister to send me to a Catholic school. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m reminded of one of the classic hymns we used to sing at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church: “It Is Well with My Soul.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Gibbs Elementary felt very similar to the Baptist College, except the students were much younger at Gibbs. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Allen from Friendship Baptist was the first person we called out to. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z But what precisely distinguished a Baptist from a Methodist from an Episcopalian I could not have said. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing opened wide the eyes of the United States to racial injustice. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Though she was a member of Farmville’s Beulah AME Church, it was the First Baptist Church that enjoyed her esteemed piano playing come Sunday morning, because they had hired her as their pianist. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z One of her admirers was Roland Hayes, a young black tenor who appeared often at the Union Baptist Church. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Just then a married couple of Baptists in tortoiseshell sunglasses came out of the crowd and shook our hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to her is the keynote speaker, Hunson Greene, head of the New York Baptists Ministers Conference and a tremendous speaker, who also happens to be the brother of Mommy’s late best friend Irene Johnson. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though Dad was Baptist like Gran, he’d only gone while he was growing up. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Most had thought Miss Love would go over to the Baptists right away or else hide at home, one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Maten was seventy-three years old, a diabetic, and a deaconess at the Resurrection Mission Baptist Church. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He dreamed of someday becoming the pastor of the largest Baptist church in California, with a congregation of a thousand and a four-hundred-strong choir behind him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Not long after we moved, we had rejoined the church I loved so much—Sixteenth Street Baptist. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This story happens during the time Ray didn’t live with us, because he’d broken my mother’s jaw and we spent Christmas in First Baptist Hospital. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z What was it the guy on the Common had said the other day, his chin resting on the Volkswagen like some grotesque John the Baptist? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad had been raised Baptist, but he didn’t like religion and didn’t believe in God. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If we were Baptist or some other denominations, we had been immersed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A Baptist minister from Vermont who had come to Wyoming two weeks before the election said that he believed he had witnessed a miracle. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “I’m the Baptist so I reckon I’m the one to be baptized.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z HA LE LU DA Our cowboy says our neighbors would be more like neighbors if we agree to something at the Del Ray Southern Baptist Church. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Even though Shady was the interim Baptist minister, I think he was more of a Quaker at heart. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Among those selected was the new pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, twenty-six-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The attempt to obtain justice for Claudette Colvin marked Dr. King’s political debut. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The Southern Baptist Mission League gave us this hint, without coming right out and telling us to flout the law of the forty-four pounds, and from there we made our plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Both Granddaddy and Mama Lessie taught me some rock-solid church organizational skills that proved good training for my work at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was with them that she and my father started the New Brown Memorial Baptist Church, a small storefront church which still stands in Red Hook today. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We had gone to the annual Christmas party held at the First Chinese Baptist Church at the end of the alley. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Orleanna Price, Southern Baptist by marriage, mother of children living and dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then for all the world like we were at testimonial time at the Baptist church with forty-five people listening besides God, he commenced to pray. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She may not have gone to the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church—she was a Methodist— but she would have been accepted in any congregation. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Outside Lewiston, we found our first bit of hope in a little Baptist church set back from the road in a bunch of tall pines. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z If the Baptists hadn’t taken upon themselves the religious conversion of the Congolese. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He also was a good singer and sang in the Metropolitan Baptist Church choir in Harlem. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And like always, in case of emergency, in case me and Mama Ya-Ya get separated, I know I’m to go to Missionary Baptist Church. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Elouise, the daughter of the Baptist minister, recited “Invictus,” and I could have cried at the impertinence of “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Attendance at the old Clarkston Baptist Church dwindled from around seven hundred to fewer than a hundred. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The Appalachian Highlands, says the voiceover, where the Angels of the Apocalypse, Fourth Division, are smoking out a pocket of Baptist guerillas, with air support from the Twenty-first Battalion of the Angels of Light. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It was fifteen years after the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and fourteen years after the Civil Rights Act, but this Birmingham company still had an almost totally white workforce. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Gran huffed under her breath, staring daggers at the one celebrity at First Baptist Church. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z To the First Baptist Church of Cold Sassy he left “the sum of one dollar in appreciation of its kindness in the matter of my son-in-law Campbell Williams’s funeral.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Students from all over Birmingham joined my classmates and me as we walked to Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and Kelly Ingram Park. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Catholics, Protestants, Christians, Baptists...they all believe in the same things, I think. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Are you related to Pastor Howard? The preacher at the First Baptist Church?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But there were some significant changes at Sixteenth Street Baptist. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I prayed that he didn’t get hurt when he went flying out the door of the Open Arms Baptist Church of Naomi. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Discussing the idea of a theater boycott at a black PTA meeting and later before a huge crowd at a Baptist church, Nelson was overwhelmed by the response. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But at the First Baptist Church and Bar, as I had come to call it, there never was much of a sermon. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “John the Baptist, get the hell out of those potato chips.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “To imagine that for reasons of respectability, if you lived in North Carolina, you would want to be a Presbyterian rather than a Baptist doesn’t play anymore.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z That night, just as the church bells began to ring midnight at the First Baptist on Washington Street, Benton was walking up the stairwell of the bell tower. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “Do they call you that because you are the preacher at the First Baptist Church?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Mother Lois would come home by five every afternoon from her job at Baptist College. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My heart filled with joy at Baptist College because everybody I met was very sweet. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Peach stands and Baptist churches, that sums it up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll go by the First Baptist Church and help with the food drive, and then we can stop in on a quilting circle at the nursing home. Oh, they’ll get a kick out of you.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z On Sundays he served as chief usher at the Union Baptist Church. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “You sure now, Mr. Randolph? I don’t want your son thinking I’m some kinda wicked influence on his good Baptist father.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I went to the library at the Baptist College and asked the librarian about the Jim Crow laws. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I saw no place like that in Little Rock until Mother took my brother and me to visit the Baptist College library, where she worked. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Sick, poor, and battered by her alcoholic husband, she decided she could not raise her kids any longer and turned them over to a Baptist children’s home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Lucas Cader walked up to me as I sat on the steps of the gazebo, finishing corn dog number two and gazing over at the Baptist church choir performing on the stage. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He told the pastor at his church, Rose of Sharon Missionary Baptist, about the dream and how he was convinced that it had been a calling to preach and become part of God’s ministry. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point Speed and Wyche invited Gey’s former assistant, Mary Kubicek, to an event in the basement of the New Shiloh Baptist Church in Turner Station, to talk about how she grew HeLa cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Marian’s grandfather referred to himself as a Black Jew and practiced his adopted religion in a crowded household of devout Baptists. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z We stopped at a diner so he could get something to eat, since he hadn’t eaten for most of two days except for the Baptist potato chips and breakfast with Pastor Greenleaf. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Mother cooperated by taking me to the Baptist College library. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The history and legacy of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church would be forever visible—a tall, stately sign of struggle, sacrifice, and triumph. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They had gone up to Grandpa’s house straight from Sunday night preachin’ at the Baptist church. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Before we became Methodists, I remember being a Baptist and, once for a year, some kind of Pentecostal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A Hindu upbringing and a Baptist education had precisely cancelled each other out as far as religion was concerned and had left her serenely impious. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Mama said maybe Love went to the Baptist church with Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They already knew that her mother and father were not part of the elite social set that revolved around Alabama State College and the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “God the Son and the Holy Ghost, I wouldn’t wonder? Say, boy, you got one named the First Baptist Church?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z At the Union Baptist Church, where her family worshiped, she had been an enthusiastic member of the junior choir ever since her sixth birthday. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z By now she was a member of the senior choir at Union Baptist Church, which gave her the chance to learn more difficult and varied music. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Once again the congregation of Union Baptist Church stepped in to help. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Members of the hoity-toity Mount Zion Baptist Church mingled with the intellectual members of the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and the plain working people of the Christian Methodist Episcopal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Baptist John was the nickname of a tracker famed for being run over by a police car that was chasing him, breaking his leg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally I saw the New Shiloh Baptist Church, which the newspaper article had mentioned as the site of community meetings about the Henrietta Lacks museum. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And again the congregation at Union Baptist Church came to Marian’s aid, organizing a benefit concert that raised $566 so that she could study with Boghetti. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z He glanced at the peeling white Calvary Baptist Church up the street from his house. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Henry moves fluidly from room to room, past a black stone sculpture of a seated Buddha and John the Baptist nude and in bronze, without a single false step. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z After breakfast, we headed down the mountain to Rocky Creek Baptist Church. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The dislodged gentleman bounced around for a long breath or two before the Baptist minister gave him his chair, then with more dignity than the situation deserved, the minister walked off the stage. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been an active member of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, for as far back as I could remember. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Baptist church, normally home to only the purest of Manifest citizens—meaning the ones who had parents and grandparents and even great-grandparents born in this country—was suddenly filled with strangers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was September 15, 1963, 10:22 a.m., at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “If that creature lives through nine hundred Baptist missions he will have quite a lot to say.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z While in prison, Robert Chambliss penned a handwritten letter on Kilby Correctional Facility’s inmate stationery to the pastor of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The principal welcomed “parents and friends” and asked the Baptist minister to lead us in prayer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t think Dad ever forgave me, later on, for becoming a Free Will Baptist. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the Baptist church, its steeple partly illuminated by the high flames of the bonfire. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Along with grits and hush puppies, the abbreviated form of you all was a dangerous step on an insidious path leading straight to the doors of the Baptist church. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Adam Clayton Powell, the pastor of Abyssinian Baptist, had led a protest that resulted in more black people working in the stores on 125th Street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I first met Dr. King at my church, Sixteenth Street Baptist, in April of 1963. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I had never been to a school except for Sunday school or visiting the Baptist College with Mother. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And my husband, why, hell hath no fury like a Baptist preacher. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe all Dessie had done was to put several black pins in a cushion to make it look like the Baptist minister, and then had the pincushion deliver a short dry sermon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That summer I found Winn-Dixie was also the summer me and the preacher moved to Naomi, Florida, so he could be the new preacher at the Open Arms Baptist Church of Naomi. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Baptists. They had a stronghold in the Blue Hills. They smoked them out.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chaplain, I once studied Latin. I think it’s only fair to warn you of that before I ask my next question. Doesn’t the word Anabaptist simply mean that you’re not a Baptist?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Their commitment to their faith is confounding a long-held assumption that, like earlier generations of Baptists or Pentecostals, prosperous evangelicals would abandon their religious ties or trade them for membership in establishment churches. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Across the street from the Baptist church was a park with two basketball courts, a playground, and a grassy path lined with benches. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Well, Big Ma had gone down to Friendship Baptist Church to hear Senator Kennedy tell the black people they were American citizens who deserved decent homes, decent education for their children, safe neighborhoods, and opportunities. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Now, there were two churches in Prairie Lea: the Baptist church, which was acceptable, and the Independent Church of Prairie Lea, which was not. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A group of black leaders, including Ida Wells-Barnett, gathered at Olivet Baptist Church to discuss the black community’s response to the rioting. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Watermelon Feed began with a prayer by one of the pastors at Temple Baptist Church, the biggest church in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lucky for you it’s been drier than a Baptist saloon.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The pastor said the church had been built by an Arabian Order of Shriners decades before Friendship Baptist made it its spiritual home. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z His Baptist church was just a short distance from the store. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z One was his role as a Baptist preacher. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked Mother why they didn't act like that, she said it was because they were decent human beings, members of the Baptist organization, who understood we were equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That evening, a “mass meeting” was held at the Holt Street Baptist Church, to celebrate the day’s triumph and to plan for the future. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z And Sixteenth Street Baptist Church had its own rich history long before landmark Civil Rights events thrust it into the public eye. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Our Baptist ears from Georgia will never understand the difference. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sunday at three o’clock, Camp had him a nice, long regular-type funeral in the Baptist church. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Called myself Brother Blakeslee, itinerant Baptist preacher and peddler of fine merchandise.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Children dressed up in the ragbags of Baptist charity or else nothing at all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Our first baby was born in the winter, and the next summer we lived at a Baptist summer camp where my husband was employed as the waterfront director. ‘How Much of My Story Am I Supposed to Share?’ 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z His father is a Baptist pastor, and church still informs Mr. Harris’s work. Maurice Harris Is a Superstar. Can He Bend Capitalism to His Talents? 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Today members of Union Baptist proudly recount their church’s history to visitors. Strolling Old Halls and Streets With Ghosts of Civil War 2010-05-13T21:56:00Z Oh, and his dad is the former president of the world’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. Why I outed a Christian star 2012-08-12T16:00:00Z Suresh Naidu, a Columbia University economist who also studies slavery, said economists would call for even more quantitative evidence for Mr. Baptist’s arguments but said his book was a “great interpretation of slavery.” 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Kylie Fox, a classical ballerina, then performed a “praise dance,” to “How Great Is Our God,” by the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship. To Win a Supermodel’s Hand, 4 Goats and a Cola Nut 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z "Every single day, calibrated pain, regular as a turning gear, challenged enslaved people to exceed the previous day's gains in production," Baptist writes. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Samford, which was established by the Alabama State Baptist Convention, has an enrollment of about 5,700 undergraduate and graduate students and includes a divinity school. College cancels Meacham talk over Planned Parenthood ties 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z A native of South Carolina, Ashford met Simpson in the early 1960s at White Rock Baptist Church in Harlem, after he moved to New York to pursue a career in entertainment and found himself homeless. Songwriter Nickolas Ashford dies at age 70 2011-08-23T02:33:42Z Vincent answers, “My father was Hindu, my mother was Baptist, so I believe in something.” What's Missing from “The Martian” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul” is a broad farce set in a Southern Baptist megachurch. Sundance is going online, for the second year in a row. Here’s what’s great about that. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The neighborhood of Baptist Town, Brown said, is like “a mansion with a lot of rooms”—everyone knew everyone, and “you basically lived in everybody’s house.” “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Growing up in Chicago, Mr. Gates sang in a Baptist church, which sparked his interest in spirituality and music. Theaster Gates Turns the Stain of the Past Into Art 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z But the familiar comforts of his old neighborhood — and the spiritual life at the New Brown Memorial Baptist Church, which his parents founded in 1955 — are a welcome balm after a few deeply taxing years. Godfather of Soul Inspires the Spirit of James McBride to Write a Biography 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z “I really curate the space with a Baptist preacher in mind,” Ms. Honig said. The Pews Went, but the Spirit Stayed in a Kansas City Church 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z In it, she stars as Trinitie Childs, the wife of a Southern Baptist pastor, played by Sterling K. Brown, who serves a megachurch. Regina Hall Sees the Bigger Picture With ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘Forensic Files’ 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The Ebo sisters were raised in the Southern Baptist tradition in Atlanta, where the movie is set, and the director displays a tart and nuanced understanding of pastoral power and the wages of hypocrisy. ‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.’ Review: Resurrecting a Megachurch 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Youmans drew on his experiences growing up in Louisiana and its Baptist churches for the worshipful yet critical Burning Cane. 'I had to make this happen': how a 19-year-old director wowed Hollywood 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z At the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, Houston's hometown, fans and admirers gathered to celebrate her life during three Sunday services, portions of which were devoted to the singer and her family. Family, fans mourn Whitney Houston with tears, prayers 2012-02-13T01:53:33Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest In a scene from Central Baptist church’s hell house, the brother mourns the deaths of his sister and mother as his father waits to discuss where their spirits are heading. Welcome to a Texas hell house, where wayward Christians are scared straight 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Jonny, who was raised as a strict Baptist, remains a virgin and plans to keep it that way, although he’s dated a few girls. Review: ‘The Mystery of Love and Sex’ Looks at Identity and Secrets Too 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z “Have you ever been to an African Baptist church?” Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z No, J. Harrison Ghee did not grow up to be a Missionary Baptist pastor like their father, though they sang in church as a child in North Carolina and earned the nickname “Little Reverend Ghee.” In ‘Some Like It Hot,’ J. Harrison Ghee Brings Their Whole Self 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z McKinstry was 15 years old when she survived the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., where four girls were killed. Bombing victim grateful for tragedy counseling 2013-01-05T22:46:04Z Word quickly spread among the slaves that punishing working conditions awaited them, Baptist writes. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z A black minister leads a Baptist denomination that was born defending slavery. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z But as the Baptist movement spread, racism became virtually inextricable from the church’s existence, particularly in the South. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Energy lifts at the start of the second act Baptist church with “Wash Me Clean” and his recollection of a storm from his youth. Met returns with 1st work by a Black composer in its history 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Most formative, though, was her partnership with Buryl Red, a Baptist choral arranger with whom she ran a music company for 25 years until his death in 2013. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z At the Highland Free Will Baptist church David Garrett, 66, has been preaching for decades. Pride and pain in Trump country: 'We all grew up poor, but we had a community' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Prayers, music, symbols, and speakers all spoke a particularistic kind of evangelical and Baptist religious language. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z Then she settled, with a vengeance, into charitable activities: raising money for young musicians in her native South Korea, supporting orphans in Rwanda and doing good works for her Baptist church. Kyung Wha Chung Makes Comeback at Southbank Center, London 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z When Pat Conroy was scheduled to give remarks at any funeral, word would spread, filling the pews at First Presbyterian, St. Helena or Brick Baptist. ‘A Lowcountry Heart’: Pat Conroy’s final words 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Baptist, a history professor at Cornell, said in an interview that his book represented his decade-long effort to blend these two aspects. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z “A lot of people in the audience grew up with that song,” said Michelle Crawford, who first sang it when she attended the Thessalonia Baptist Church in the Bronx as a child. Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z Because I was raised in a Southern Baptist community in Texas, the answer to that last question is still ingrained within me: a married man simply shouldn’t have female friends. Mike Pence’s Marriage and the Beliefs That Keep Women from Power 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Morton’s father, Bishop Paul Morton, is pastor of Full Gospel Baptist churches in Atlanta and New Orleans and is himself a gospel artist. PJ Morton 1st artist in residence at Dillard University 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Harris is Black and Indian — she identifies as Baptist, like her father, but her mother also introduced her to Hindu customs. The story of Kamala and Doug, a match made in Hollywood (literally) 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z They planned a wedding for 150 guests at Spotswood Baptist Church in Fredericksburg on May 31. When She Hears a Crying Bride, ‘It’s All Over’ 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Philip Galanes: So, what pushes two Southern Baptists from Texas straight to the top of the gossip game? Table For Three: A Conversation With Liz Smith, Gossip Columnist and Jess Cagle, Editorial Director of People Magazine 2014-04-25T22:08:35Z Officers start to line up in preparation for funeral services for slain Chicago Police Officer Clifton Lewis at Lewis at United Missionary Baptist Church. Funeral today for slain Chicago police officer 2012-01-05T14:49:00Z Franklin, a prominent Baptist minister who recorded dozens of albums of sermons and music. Aretha Franklin makes history with posthumous Pulitzer win 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The win came with scholarship money that got her to a tiny Baptist college and a life away from the small Appalachian valley where her family has farmed for more than 200 years. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z The event, at Mount Zion Baptist Church Friday, is free and includes spirituals and songs of the Civil Rights era by the Mount Zion Inspirational Choir. Many ways to honor Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend 2013-01-17T20:33:17Z Then American Baptist missionaries invaded, eventually succeeding in almost totally suppressing the Naga’s “satanic” practices and converting nearly all of the population to nominal Christianity. Art Review: Naga Peoples Made Beauty From the Ugly in Northeastern India 2013-06-27T21:18:57Z The devout Independent Baptist family starred in the TLC series 19 Kids and Counting. Duggars say son confessed to fondling four of his sisters: 'He's very sorry' 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr Baptist cites the testimony of a few slaves to support his view that these rises in productivity were achieved by pickers being driven to work ever harder by a system of “calibrated pain”. Blood cotton 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z "I am still a Baptist, but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists," Moore told Religion News Service Tuesday. Evangelicals lost a major female leader over Trump supporter hypocrisy – will other women follow? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Isabelle was a spiritual woman who had raised her children in the Baptist church. Billy Martin: Washington’s go-to lawyer when you’re in trouble. Real trouble. 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z He grew up in Klamath Falls, Ore., in a Southern Baptist home and was playing the piano in church by the time he was in eighth grade. Dennis Coleman: Concerts need 'a laugh, a tear and a chill' 2012-11-20T22:14:15Z Over tea, the self-described grandson of an “old-time Appalachian fiddler, coal miner and Baptist preacher,” tried to capture his city’s music scene for me. Urban bourbon: A whiskey lover’s jaunt through Louisville 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z As the breakfasters descended to the Biltmore’s lobby, my tablemate from Winnipeg wondered at how Providence already felt familiar: he knew the First Baptist Church and Fleur-de-Lys house, among other landmarks, from Lovecraft’s stories. Croissants with Cthulhu 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z He was, at the time, still working with children at another Baptist church. Southern Baptists and #MeToo: Advocates for church sex abuse victims push for reform 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z After the Revolution, evangelicals, mainly Baptists and Methodists, adopted the principle of separation of church and state and helped James Madison and Thomas Jefferson enshrine it in the first amendment to the Constitution. Why Evangelicals Support Donald Trump 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z “It’s not about espousing our faith,” Steve Green, a Southern Baptist who is the museum board’s chairman and president of the Hobby Lobby craft store chain, told reporters this week. Washington's new Museum of the Bible aims to inform, not preach 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z SAT-SUN Music by composers through the ages by Seattle First Baptist Sanctuary Choir, Bell Ensemble, orchestra, organ, Children and Youth Choir and carol singalong, 7:30 p.m. Community Datebook calendar 2011-12-15T20:59:07Z “The thing that bothers me — this was voted on back in 1977 and was defeated two to one,” said the Rev. Rickey Blythe of First Baptist Church, who led the opposition. 2010-02-07T06:40:00Z He’d also been a Baptist preacher in training, a teen evangelist. The Improbable Life of Ray Hill 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z I had crossed the county line to Culpeper County, and within a few minutes, I arrived at Cedar Grove Baptist Church, which was established in 1883. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Her father, a cardiologist, was the medical director of the echocardiography lab at Missouri Baptist Medical Center, also in St. Louis. Thúy-Lan Lite, Gabriel Friedman 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Visiting a Baptist service, with ministers preaching, gospel choirs grooving and animated congregations matching them step for step has become a staple of Harlem tourism. 36 Hours in Upper Manhattan 2014-02-20T19:20:26Z On April 4, 1968, in Memphis—the last day of his life—Martin Luther King, Jr., phoned Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta with the title of his Sunday sermon: “Why America May Go to Hell.” “His dream was for all poor and working people to live lives of decency and dignity” 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Think bottle trees in the yards, Baptist church fans on the walls, Mardi Gras beads wrapped around old jugs, and six-packs left in the fridge. Delta Blues Highway 2010-09-21T18:38:00Z Maybe because football is the most homophobic subculture this side of the Westboro Baptist Church? Odell Beckham and the NFL’s fear of of gay men: “Football is the most homophobic subculture this side of the Westboro Baptist Church” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Ronald L. Levy, a Baptist minister and an uncle of the groom, is to officiate in a ceremony incorporating Christian wedding traditions. Urvashe Sameer, Ryan Harris 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z There’s a saying that goes, “Live your life so the Westboro Baptist Church will want to picket your funeral.” Who will go to Fred Phelps’ funeral? 2014-03-17T14:12:00Z Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network, will be at the 7 p.m. rally at First Shiloh Baptist Church. Trayvon Martin: Rev. Al Sharpton says mom died, but he'll still attend Sanford rally 2012-03-22T10:35:00Z When I was doing a lot of research with the Spiritual Baptists from Trinidad and Tobago, they say “higher heights and deeper depths.” Reggie Wilson Explores the Power of Moving Together 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z As the son of a Baptist minister, Boggs is a member of the black aristocracy, a beneficiary of “preacher money and a preacher house, even a preacher car.” The Best Crime Novels of 2017 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z But as the years passed, we each made efforts to bridge the differences between us; me the queer, her the devout Baptist. The enigmatic gift from my estranged mother that I decided to keep 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Later, in 2007, the art historian Jan Baptist Bedaux told me this was the first time a black kid was portrayed as a symbol for innocence in western art. Ruud van Empel's strange creations 2013-03-20T12:17:00Z The stage, said the Baptist minister's grandson, "always feels like home - it's where I belong". Springsteen saxophone player dies 2011-06-19T04:10:33Z The hospital, Princeton Baptist Medical Center Princeton, previously said the claims are without merit. Lawyer: Claims of botched circumcision are untrue 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z When Carter was visited by a high official of the Southern Baptist Convention, the man told him, “We are praying, Mr. President, that you will abandon secular humanism as your religion.” The Pious Presidency of Jimmy Carter 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The Rev. Glenn R. Shields, a Baptist minister, performed the ceremony at Progressive Community Church in Stockton, Calif., where he is the senior pastor. Anna Ntiriwah Asare, Michael Tubbs 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z It was a plaintive, nimble and haunting voice that blended elements of Primitive Baptist church choirs and the Grand Ole Opry, music on which Mr. Stanley was weaned in far southwestern Virginia. Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z At the Baptist church Cornsilk said that if you do not think these folks in this room “have Cherokee ancestry and you have not done the research to find out, then you’re a racist.” Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z "It was a very powerful presentation," said Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist minister. Once-popular Arkansas Passion Play of Jesus' life closes 2012-12-06T18:57:39Z This is something that Perry Dixon, an associate pastor at Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, says is front of mind as he prepares his sermon for this weekend. Is Trump "reaping what he sowed"? Spiritual leaders address views on sinners with conflicted flock 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z A public viewing will be held for Clarice Taylor on Tuesday from noon to 4 p.m. at Canaan Baptist Church on 116th Street in New York. Tuesday funeral for former 'Cosby' grandmother 2011-06-04T22:46:05Z Mr. White, 24, is a senior marketing operations specialist for DataStax, a cloud database company in Santa Clara, Calif. He graduated from California Baptist University in Riverside, Calif. Kelsey Roland, Boone White 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Except that Macdonald brilliantly manages to trace the root of Houston’s problems to her Baptist childhood, uncovering a long-buried tale of familial abuse. Cannes 2018: A search for meaning on the Croisette 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z A site that became a home to dance more recently is Metro Baptist Church, which Mark Lamb calls a “pugnacious little church in the heart of Hell’s Kitchen.” The Week Ahead: Feb. 5 ? 11 2012-02-03T17:18:06Z She said something very New Age for a Baptist: “What you believe, you create. You become what you believe, you understand? I’ve seen it through experience.” Ailing, alone and 89. So how could Hilda Reynolds be joyous? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Dance and devotion have met frequently in Wilson’s works over the decades, from the ring shouts practiced by enslaved Africans to the dancing of Spiritual Baptists in Trinidad and Tabago. 12 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Years after Mom and I moved out and we all moved to Tallahassee, we would go to her house every Sunday to pick her up for services at Temple Baptist Church. Fox News' Shannon Bream: Even a complicated Christmas can be full of joy 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Gradually, with the help of the staff in the rehabilitation department of Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg, Va., he took steps with a walker. Magician conjures up therapeutic tricks for disabled kids 2011-02-16T22:54:59Z "First gospel choir was started right here in Chicago at Pilgrim Baptist Church," he says. America's Musical Cities 2010-07-07T21:20:00Z The tag also included Hughes’s blood type and service number and listed his religion as Baptist. A U.S. Marine lost his dog tag in the Vietnam war. A tour group just found it. 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Speaking about “The Tree of Life” in May at the Cannes Film Festival he connected the film to memories of his strict Southern Baptist upbringing. The Oscars: Brad Pitt Discusses ?Moneyball? and ?Tree of Life? 2011-12-30T18:44:10Z Raised as a Baptist, he regarded with fascination the old African beliefs that exist like a palimpsest behind the Christian institutions there. John Edmonds and the Allure of Africa 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z The Rev. Michael K. Bighum, the groom’s father and a Baptist minister, officiated at the Liberty View, an events space at the Independence Visitor Center. Tegest Saunders, Tyler Bighum 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z That seems impossible for the minister whose New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church congregation meets in a converted gun store several miles west of Laurens. Pastor’s fight against KKK becomes movie that may aid battle 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Carlebach’s daughter, Neshama, has recorded and performed his music with a black gospel choir from Green Pastures Baptist Church in the Bronx. ‘Zion80,’ Combining the Music of Fela and Carlebach 2013-06-05T21:29:00Z These tickets were a birthday gift from church members, the Southern Baptist's alternative medicine. You can't resolve your way through New Year's grief 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Hicks, it turns out, had a fairly unexceptional upbringing in Houston, the child of strict Baptist parents; his main motivation, at the start, was to get the hell away from them. Film review: American: The Bill Hicks Story 2010-05-13T21:40:00Z Owned by Temple Baptist Church, the baptismal came down on Thursdays and went up on Sundays, as one Philharmonic patron complained. How the Music Center broke new ground for major arts institutions 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z But there was also a group of eight women carrying a banner reading, “Texas Baptists for Clean Energy”; the reverse side read, “The Earth is the Lord’s — Not TransCanada’s.” The Green Movement isn’t fringe! 2013-03-05T17:20:00Z “This is exactly why I never lead with ‘I’m a Southern Baptist’,” said Cissy. The evangelical women who visit strippers to 'show God loves them' 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z As it began on a wintry Monday morning, admirers of the pioneering Black actor already were lined up down the block outside Harlem’s famed Abyssinian Baptist Church. Throng of fans pay respects at actor Cicely Tyson’s viewing 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z This year, on Friday morning, at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, the gods of fashion showed up to pay homage to him. A Memorial for André Leon Talley 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z It closed a few years after his death, but the building is still there, eight blocks from Lusco’s, on what used to be a stretch of thriving, Black-owned businesses in Baptist Town. A Mississippi Restaurant Has Been Beloved for Decades. But There’s Another Story to Tell. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The audience response turned it into something between a rock concert and a Baptist revival meeting. The TV Watch: ‘Regards Croisés’ Offers Haiti Needed Comic Relief on TV 2012-07-10T20:51:35Z “Our fathers were Baptist ministers,” Ballou says — Martin Luther King Sr. was a giant in Atlanta; H.P. More than an assistant: The story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s first secretary 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The leader of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, C.L. was a celebrity in his own right and segued smoothly from indulging in earthly delights on Saturdays to preaching heavenly sermons on Sundays. In ‘Genius: Aretha,’ Respecting the Mind, Not Just the Soul 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z He was already a Baptist minister, but worked as a Virginia State network technician employee in Ashland to pay the bills. Let the Wedding Come to You 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z The bureau chief of the Baptist Press wrote a piece saying that religious liberty, human equality, and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court decision. Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Baldwin grew up in Harlem, the son of Emma Jones and the stepson of David Baldwin, a Baptist minister who was abusive to James and his eight younger half siblings. Happy birthday, James Baldwin! 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z A priest, a rabbi and a Baptist minister sit side by side on the couch. Tooning up: Refreshed cartoon tropes from Style Invitational Week 1397 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z It was the ministerial career that eventually stuck: By the 1960s she was living in New Jersey and doing evangelical and outreach work with the Community Baptist Church of Love in Paterson. Ruby C. Williams, Folk Artist With a Produce Stand, Dies at 94 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z To be a product of Shiloh Baptist Church fortified me for life. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z His own family was very religious: Members of three straight generations were Baptist ministers. What was Martin Luther King Jr. like as a child? A prankster and ‘an ordinary kid.’ 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Hopper existed on the periphery — his lodgings were not with fellow artists but at a Baptist mission near the Seine, an arrangement set up by his church back home in Nyack, N.Y. Perspective | In Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z In an alternate universe, the Southern Baptist history of endorsing slavery and then Jim Crow laws, so shameful in hindsight, might have led to broad theological growth. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Badlands Unlimited, the publishing company founded by artist Paul Chan, makes signs that appropriate the language and style of the posters used by the right-wing Westboro Baptist Church: “God Hates Ivanka,” reads one. President Trump Has Inspired Art. That’s Not Always a Good Thing. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Before the Rev. Leslie Callahan, a pastor at St. Paul’s Baptist Church, pronounced the two married, several guests stood for speeches. For a State Representative, the Ideal Candidate 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Finding his own way has been a life goal for Mr. Kirkpatrick, who grew up in Midland, Mich., in what he calls a traditional Baptist community. Embracing an Unloved Grape 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z However, in late March, the chief medical officer at Baptist Health in New Albany called Floyd County, in which the city is located, a "hotspot for the coronavirus" after over 20 people tested positive. Why some restaurants are keeping their doors closed in states that have reopened, despite backlash 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Students, parents and staff members had complained to the administration, saying that hosting the group would run counter to the college’s Baptist values. Florida College Cancels Concert Over Gay Singer, Drawing Backlash 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z The groom’s parents are on the joint board of the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia, of which the Rev. Dr. Waller is the senior pastor. Christina Zipf, Robert Glenn III 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z The son of a Baptist preacher in a small, evangelical Ozarks community, Conley is outed and at 19 enters treatment at the program’s grim facility in Memphis, earnestly hoping to cure himself. ‘Inside My Head I’m a Girl’: Three Ways of Growing Up Gay 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z “Baptists were often victims of vigilante violence,” since practicing their faith made them publicly vulnerable. Religious freedom: It’s a core American principle, and it doesn’t mean what right-wingers want it to mean 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z He was the coach of the California Baptist men’s volleyball team that won National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national titles in 1999 and 2001. Kelsey Roland, Boone White 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z "I love so many Southern Baptist people, so many Southern Baptist churches, but I don't identify with some of the things in our heritage that haven't remained in the past." Evangelicals lost a major female leader over Trump supporter hypocrisy – will other women follow? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Now, faced with eroding membership, the Southern Baptist leaders are fighting against irrelevance. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Q: Your stepfather is a minister, and you were raised in the Baptist church. In ‘Paterson’ and ‘Silence,’ Adam Driver wrestles with poetry and piety 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z About 200 were present Tuesday at the Crossroads Baptist Church. Mindy McCready's funeral held in southwest Florida 2013-02-26T19:25:10Z The next release was “Dirt Road,” a haunting tune about Moore’s frustrations growing up in a Southern Baptist town and struggling with the preacher’s words about heaven and sin. Country star Kip Moore weathers the Nashville storm to make a comeback 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Even the decapitated head of John the Baptist, climactically kissed by the title character, goes unseen inside a metal bucket. At the Opera, Humans Bear Witness to Atrocity, or Ignore It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Houston's funeral will be at New Hope Baptist Church, where she sang as a child. Whitney Houston fans to follow funeral on Internet 2012-02-16T12:16:14Z The choir from King's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was scheduled to sing. Thousands gather to dedicate King Memorial 2011-10-16T13:59:00Z In 1863, freed slaves from the Fredericksburg church founded the Shiloh Baptist Church in the District. In (and around) Fredericksburg, Va., walking the steps of a slave’s Trail to Freedom 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z After tithing at the local Baptist church, profits would go toward buying school clothes. True Love Can Leave Traces. S.G. Goodman’s Detailed Songs Do, Too. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Brooks, pretending as if it's Sunday at a Baptist church rather than an already scorching Saturday early afternoon. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z She speaks with The Times’ Deborah Vankin about taking on the role of a Baptist baker who has to confront her beliefs when she makes a cake for a same-sex wedding. Essential Arts & Culture: Frida as opera, Julius Caesar continued, Taylor Mac's day-long songfest 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Houston began singing as a child at New Hope Baptist Church, where her mother, Grammy-winning gospel singer Cissy Houston, led the music program for many years. Hearse arrives at NJ funeral home handling Houston 2012-02-14T13:17:19Z Just as they did on the questions of slavery and the full humanity of women, the Southern Baptists have positioned themselves as moral dead weight, which is a loss for us all. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Most convincingly, Baptist paints a picture of the plantation as a kind of factory that used "torture" and a speed-up "pushing" system to increase the amount of cotton slaves picked. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z She was raised Baptist, but her beliefs ultimately became a kind of spiritual grab bag, influenced by New Age teachings, astrology, divination and science fiction. New "Heaven's Gate" series looks to Christianity to explain the method to the cult's madness 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z In 1964, when Bey was 12, his parents went to a Baptist church in Queens to hear James Baldwin speak. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church — once Dr. King’s church — he made the transition from spiritual counselor to politician look easy, following in the footsteps of his friend and parishioner Congressman John Lewis. Civil Rights Memoirs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z They put a bomb in a 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Poet Nikki Giovanni shares her wisdom about Biden, cowardly racism, and why love is a pineapple 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z It will make you, he says, “get down on your knees” like a Baptist preacher and shout out a word that’s not printable in a family newspaper. Books of The Times: ?Extra Virginity? by Tom Mueller; a Word on Olive Oil - Review 2011-12-07T21:50:14Z His father was a Southern Baptist preacher who also managed a steakhouse; Zimmerman became a vegetarian atheist. Nine Shows to Catch at the New York Comedy Festival 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z He was in Birmingham in 1963, when white supremacists dynamited a Baptist church and killed four young girls. Kerry James Marshall’s Paintings Show What It Means to Be Black in America 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z A young woman in Baptist Town extends her arms to a toddler taking his first steps. “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z We met at a youth group mixer at our Baptist church and had been inseparable since. True love waits? The story of my purity ring and feeling like I didn't have a choice 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Malick was raised in Texas in the 1940s and '50s, and as anyone who ever spent time there will tell you, Texas is very much a Southern Baptist part of the United States. Your guide to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" 2011-07-02T16:54:00Z "A man or woman who discovered he was being taken south might be desperate enough to do anything," Baptist writes. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The church Christmas fund his wife was safekeeping is missing, and certain members of the Five Ends Baptist Church of South Brooklyn are beginning to wonder whether ole Deacon Sportcoat might not be responsible. James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ Is a Supercharged Urban Farce Lit Up by Thunderbolts of Rage 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z The Rev. Marshall Hatch of New Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church says he and other clergy members want to help resolve the morgue conditions and other mismanagement issues at the Cook County medical examiner's office. Clergy ask for meeting with Cook County president over morgue conditions 2012-01-30T13:32:00Z And while the style is influenced by Leonardo, Rustici’s Baptist is markedly different from Leonardo’s painting of the same figure, on loan from the Louvre. Art Review: The Great Rustici Emerges From the Shadows 2010-12-13T15:41:00Z According to his congressional biography, Franks and his wife have served as Sunday-school teachers at a Southern Baptist church in Phoenix. Lawmaker’s resignation raises questions of ‘pro-life approach’ to IVF, surrogacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z In the US, where colourful houses are far more common, the house opposite the notorious homophobic Westboro Baptist church was painted in rainbow stripes. Forget the greige age: the case for painting your house any colour you like 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Two errors lurked in that sentence and its presumption — that secular humanism is a religion, and that the Southern Baptists’ religion is a religion. The Pious Presidency of Jimmy Carter 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Turner asked the group that includes a Baptist minister, a League of Women Voters representative, a local business consultant and others. Perspective | A small-town Alabama newspaper takes a stand on Roy Moore. A very careful one. 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Oprah talks about a Baptist church that her grandmother took her to in Mississippi. "Oprah: Gospel of an Icon": Worshipping at the church of Oprah Winfrey 2011-03-13T18:01:00Z She spoke of her longtime involvement in the Bethel Baptist Church — which the Lewis siblings grew up attending — and her more recent role as president of the Orange branch of the NAACP. On the menu at the Edna Lewis family reunion: Deviled eggs, peach cobbler and pride 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Growing up, he was called Little Mike, after his father, the Baptist minister Michael King. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z A woman sent a long, thoughtful e-mail about her Southern Baptist family that had “no money,” even to replace a broken bike or record player. Lonnae O’Neal: White readers talk back 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z She “felt betrayed, broken” when Beau died of brain cancer at 46, and she had stopped going to church or even praying, she told the congregants of Brookland Baptist Church late Sunday afternoon. Jill Biden paid a surprise visit to the woman who helped her regain faith in God 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Sanders attended Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where she was elected student body president and co-founded the Young Conservative Nepotism Society with herself. Who in the hell is Sarah Huckabee Sanders?! Everything you were afraid to ask about this suddenly important person 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Yet in terms of timeliness, the book’s social echoes to today toll as loud as a Southern Baptist church bell. Rep. John Lewis’s new ‘March: Book Three’ rises to the historic occasion 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Carter, who identifies as Baptist, lamented that people cherry pick specific passages in the Bible to justify their beliefs, however. Jimmy Carter takes over “The Colbert Report” for a “hugely historic night” 2014-03-26T13:49:00Z Torres sings about struggling for and against the Baptist faith she grew up in, about the bonds and tensions of friends and family, about isolation and about something like romance. Review: Torres’s New Album, ‘Sprinter,’ Shows an Artist Opening Up 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z There’s the Southern Baptist thing, I get the Southern aspect. 'That '70s Show's' Debra Jo Rupp on her new 'Cake' and breaking the rules — in baking and in life 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z His new hoped-for site, the former First African Baptist Church, is still owned by Virginia Commonwealth University and houses its department of clinical laboratory services. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z After lunch, I cross several sets of railroad tracks to reach Bethel Baptist Church in Collegeville. Martin Luther King anniversary: the US Civil Rights Trail 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z The two men now boast ties with some of the biggest names in reformed evangelicalism, including Albert Mohler, president of the country’s largest Southern Baptist seminary, and Seattle’s “cussing pastor,” Mark Driscoll. Evangelical church accused of ignoring sexual abuse, “pedophilia ring” 2013-03-12T16:17:00Z Home-schooled in a Baptist family, she had always been taught that when God calls, you follow. The Director of ‘Savior Complex’ on the Perils of ‘White Saviorism’ 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Raised a Baptist, Mr. Jordan was told when he was in college that his maternal grandmother was Jewish, a closely held family secret up to then. Rebirth of Book by Aide to Carter 2013-07-26T21:47:53Z Her parents had walked away from religion but took the family to a Baptist church when she was a child. Savannah Guthrie Is Feeling Lucky 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z She married Baptist preacher Michael King, and they had three children together. Review | ‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Upon arriving at Cedar Grove Baptist Church, I parked on the dirt road beside the church. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z And the breadth of that influence — its great range of possibilities, not all of them emulation — was a striking feature of his memorial service on Saturday afternoon, at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Jimmy Scott Honored at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z And the most anti-feminist denominations, the Catholics and the Southern Baptists, are seeing some of the highest levels of drop-off. Misogyny’s scary new warriors: How Gamergate has supplanted the Christian right 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Displayed with it is a preparatory drawing for the picture, of just the Baptist’s head, done in black chalk. Review: A Renaissance Painter, Andrea del Sarto, Striving for Perfection 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z My grandparents were Southern Baptists, which meant they were teetotalers. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Music comes from comedy band Jonny And The Baptists, the perfect accompaniment to the nostalgic rush that's set to engulf the audience. This week's new live comedy 2013-01-26T06:00:13Z The anti-L.G.B.T.Q. protests culminated in 1997, when the Southern Baptist Convention announced a formal boycott, spurred, in part, by Disney’s refusal to block Gay Days. After a Political Storm, Gay Days Return to Disney 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z In this atmospheric novel, a Baptist family travels across the South, spreading “the word of God like manna to the starving.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The Phelps clan and its congregation, Westboro Baptist Church, have earned themselves quite a reputation over the years, mostly for their penchant for showing up at funerals and gleefully spewing invective at mourners. Meet the two defectors of the Westboro Baptist Church 2013-02-07T16:37:00Z Houston will be recognized for that, and for much more, on Saturday, when her funeral is held at Newark's New Hope Baptist Church, where she sang with the choir as a young girl. NJ hometown to reclaim Whitney Houston at funeral 2012-02-17T22:39:08Z Looming largest is the figure of John Chilembwe, a Black African Baptist preacher turned civil rights hero, alongside the smaller figure of his friend, the white British missionary John Chorley. This Fall, London is Awash in Sculpture 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z I pulled into the Maranatha Baptist Church parking lot at 5:45 a.m. and received a scrap of paper indicating that I was the 13th car. In Plains, Ga., President Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school program still draws crowds 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Liquor was banned here long after federal Prohibition was repealed in 1933, under an arrangement that pleased everyone: the Baptists, the bootleggers and the state, which, curiously enough, levied taxes on illegal alcohol. 2010-02-07T06:40:00Z I live in a small town in Georgia where everyone is either Baptist or Methodist, and the first time I hear the haunting yet lyrical — and completely unforgettable — muezzin’s call to prayer is in Bo-Kaap. Cape Town inspires art in all forms 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Members still battle a perception of otherness, as in the recent flare-up between Mr. Romney and Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist pastor and Rick Perry supporter who derided the religion as a “cult.” Young Mormons Find Ways to Be Hip 2011-10-26T20:31:24Z As the Washington Post reported, Long's church is part of a group in the Southern Baptist Convention called Founders Ministries that has pushed the convention in a more conservative direction in recent years. How Evangelicalism's racist roots and purity culture teachings catalyzed the Atlanta killings 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z The authors also miss chances to compare Baptists’ stances with those of their counterparts in other denominations on issues such as the biblical justification for holding slaves. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Hall and three other members of the band are active in youth ministry at the Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church in the Atlanta area and the other three minister at nearby churches. Casting Crowns aim for 6th straight win at Doves 2010-04-21T12:08:00Z The piece is part of his ongoing “New Proverbs” series, which parodies signs used by the Westboro Baptist Church that he characterizes as “arguably one of the pioneering Christian hate speech groups in America.” Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z A few days after the Roe ruling, in January 1973, The Baptist Press, the news service of the Southern Baptist Convention, spoke with McCorvey. Seeing Norma: The Conflicted Life of the Woman at the Center of Roe v. Wade 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z On an oppressively hot evening last May, David Cornsilk addressed a room of so-called “black Indians” at Gilcrease Hills Baptist Church in northwest Tulsa. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z It closes with artistic director Karen P. Thomas' own setting of the Baptist hymn: "How Can I Keep from Singing?" Seattle Pro Musica celebrates 40 years together 2012-10-18T20:18:08Z A few weeks ago the Southern Baptist Convention voted to approve a name change. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z So declares the silver-clad choir, in buoyant triplets, upon entering the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, in Watts, Los Angeles. “My Soul Is Satisfied”: An Intimate New Documentary Explores the Source of Aretha Franklin’s Power 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Amid rain, about 500 people filled the sanctuary of Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church, a red brick structure that sits in a field off of B.B. B.B. King's funeral draws hundreds in Mississippi 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Tambourines rattled and she pogo-hopped to the beat, clapping hands until the venerable theater started to morph into a Baptist church. Concert review: Florence and the Machine at the Chicago Theatre 2011-12-05T06:41:00Z Single-faith: My oldest child graduated from both a conservative Christian high school and conservative Baptist college, in west Tennessee, before we moved to Atlanta. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z The younger one, on the other hand, favors her Baptist minister grandparents. My uneasy Catholic motherhood 2013-05-26T20:30:00Z LifeWay's decision apparently stemmed from an ongoing campaign by Rodney Baker, a Baptist pastor from Florida, to force the film off the chain's shelves. Retailer's decision to drop The Blind Side upsets Christian faithful 2012-07-17T16:14:12Z He wears a ring symbolic of his power, but Herodias, his wife, took it from his hand while he quivered at Salome’s demand for the Baptist’s head on a silver platter. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The jack-of-all-trades spent most of what he had on locations, from a Thibodaux sugar plantation complete with standing slaves’ quarters to the Mount Sinai Baptist church in Algiers, but shot in many places for free. 'I had to make this happen': how a 19-year-old director wowed Hollywood 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z He was 8 when his father, a Baptist minister, died. Don Covay, soul singer of ‘Mercy, Mercy,’ dies at 76 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Like the Catholics, the Southern Baptists recently have doubled down on controlling women as it has become clear that they are losing their battle to ostracize gays. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z And so it was for Ms. Smith, who was born Mary Elizabeth Smith in Fort Worth in 1923 to a strict Baptist mother. Liz Smith’s Complicated Relationship With the Closet 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The family were pariahs, accused of spreading lice in a Baptist church and lambasted by an elementary-school teacher for teaching young Adeem to swear. Adeem the Artist, Crafting a Country Music of Their Own 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z In Greenwood, Baptist Town is the poverty-plagued neighborhood where Johnson once played. Salutes mark bluesman Robert Johnson's centennial 2011-05-05T21:22:08Z His father, Friendly, was a steelworker and part-time Baptist minister. Bobby Womack, Songwriter and Musician, Dies at 70 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z One of its coffeehouses became a slave market, and Baptist describes the city through the eyes of one woman transported there for sale. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z His pictures, which are collected in a new book, “Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town,” form the second in a planned four-book series about contemporary America. “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z James Ellis, formerly Sunday-school teacher at First Baptist Church of Ben Wheeler, took it especially personally and resigned to become a truck driver. 'Little Hope Was Arson' explores fallout from church fires 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z On Friday morning, Crabapple First Baptist Church, Long's home church, released a statement about the killings. How Evangelicalism's racist roots and purity culture teachings catalyzed the Atlanta killings 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Fortè enrolled at Missouri Baptist University, where he is studying for an online bachelor’s degree in sports management. The Photograph That Started a Romance 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Baptists held that only declared believers should be baptised, which offended other Protestants, who thought that infants should get a dipping. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Okorafor’s and Baptist’s narratives provide comfort precisely because they refuse to gloss over violence, loss and pain. Black Boyhood and Its Superpowers 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z She began singing at the St. Paul Baptist Church in Los Angeles at 5 and turned to secular music as a teenager, forming a vocal group with two friends. Etta James, Singer, Dies at 73 2012-01-20T17:01:10Z Satorii said the “This Land” melody was “substantially identical” to a Baptist gospel hymn from around the start of the 20th century, known by such titles as “Fire Song.” U.S. judge refuses to dismiss 'This Land is Your Land' lawsuit 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z A second case was the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 1963, in which four young girls were killed. The Journalist and the Murderers 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Growing up in Covington, La., where her father was pastor of the First Baptist Church, she found her niche early on in church choirs. Elizabeth Futral at Lincoln Center Festival and Glimmerglass 2012-07-18T21:49:41Z Way back in 1997, he supported a Baptist boycott of Disney for its gay-friendly practices, ”I think it’s a wonderful decision. “Homosexuals must repent or go to Hell”: Florida church’s neighbors are fighting back against its anti-LGBT message 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z It became a staple in black churches after being included in the 1921 Baptist hymnal “Gospel Pearls.” Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z In interviews with Salon, several Southern Baptists said that many people who were present had never even heard of the racist movement before. Southern Baptists declare war on the alt-right 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z He takes Eli to a church with a black Baptist minister in a nearby town to help the teen identify with his heritage. Boy torn from womb: 'God has a plan for me' 2011-12-18T04:15:00Z One grandparent, Lisa Baptist, said the book is inappropriate for young students. Gay-themed children's book challenged in North Carolina school 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Smith began as a gospel singer, performing at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and on other stages with the Back Home Choir of the Greater Harvest Baptist Church in Newark. Carrie Smith, Singer in ‘Black and Blue,’ Dies at 86 2012-05-27T05:16:12Z "The Southern Baptists have lost a powerful champion in a time in which their public witness has already been significantly weakened." Evangelicals lost a major female leader over Trump supporter hypocrisy – will other women follow? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z When she was seven, Butler’s father died, and she was raised by her mother and grandmother in a strict Baptist household. Prince, Cecil Taylor, and Beyoncé’s Shape-Shifting Black Body 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Both of my parents grew up with Baptist pastors for fathers. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z The “19 Kids & Counting” star tied the knot at the First Baptist Church in Bentonville, Ark., in front of more than 1,000 guests in a Saturday morning wedding, People reported. Jessa Duggar marries Ben Seewald; sister Jinger is maid of honor 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z She left home to attend Truett McConnell University, a Baptist school near the Tennessee border, on a scholarship for students with ambitions to become a minister or marry one. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Today, Pastor Patrinell Wright will lead a celebration of the choir's anniversary with a concert to be held at 3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave., in Seattle. Wayne Kramer: 'I was the white boy who played the wah-wah' 2012-10-28T14:46:03Z Consider the case of Omar Hammami: Born in Alabama to a Syrian Muslim father and American Baptist mother, he attended Bible studies on Sundays and was in the gifted program at his high school. What drives Americans to join the jihad? The book 'United States of Jihad' explains 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z One of these is theHopewell Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, designed to reference a teepee and built by volunteer members of the congregation after Goff’s design using discarded oil field pipes. Midwestern futurism 2012-08-26T23:00:00Z As the Rev. Tina Baker of Bethlehem Baptist Church pronounced them married, 108 guests, some of whom were vaccinated just to attend, watched them jump a broom into a new life. Making Time to Connect on a Wednesday 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z His father was a Baptist preacher, and he and some of his siblings sang in a gospel group. Don Covay, Performer and Writer of R&B Hits, Dies at 78 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z And when folks from Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest, it gave Wilson students a chance to rally around their principal, their high school and one another. Wilson High Principal Pete Cahall: ‘It’s time to come out’ as gay And the pieces exist to tell their story over the centuries, from the griots and warriors of West Africa to the four girls murdered in the bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z In “Nickel Dreams,” she gives much of the credit to Sherrill, whose humid country-soul settings benefitted from “an underlying religious urgency, that old Southern Baptist feel.” Tanya Tucker’s New Album Might Be the Best of Her Long, Underrated Career 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” Topics: , , , , , Excerpted from the book "Does Jesus Really Love Me?" My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z Her parents, far from wealthy, attended a Baptist church and it was there that the youngster's vocal ability became obvious. Calm operatic voice for civil rights 2014-04-09T07:07:48Z The 16th Street Baptist Church, the site of the 1963 bombing that tragically killed four little girls attending Sunday school, is one of the most well-known civil rights-era sites in the United States. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The Louvre painting would appear to be a debased version of this subject, to which the attributes of the Baptist were added by another hand. Germaine Greer: The debate over Mona Lisa's identity 2011-02-20T22:30:00Z The Kings moved to Montgomery, Ala., in 1954, when he took over as pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z It is the basis for the recently released concert film “Amazing Grace,” filmed over two sessions in January 1972 at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts section of Los Angeles. Aretha Franklin makes history with posthumous Pulitzer win 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z With a singing style derived from Southern Baptist churches, Mr. Ligon would shout, scream and jump into the crowds, and would deliver sermons in between songs. Joe Ligon, frontman for Grammy-winning gospel group Mighty Clouds of Joy, dies 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Did you know that in the late 1960s the Southern Baptists came out for liberalizing abortion laws? Changing the Debate: Katha Pollitt Talks About 'Pro' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Whenever religion came up as a topic of conversation, I would jokingly call myself a "recovering Southern Baptist." My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Philharmonic played out of a sonically inadequate auditorium leased from the Temple Baptist Church downtown. Dorothy Buffum Chandler was the driving force behind the Music Center 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference will host two events on Monday, the first in the chapel of the UN’s headquarters in midtown Manhattan, the second at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Faith leaders to tackle drug war's racial divide in Harlem as UN meets nearby 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Reagon, whose musical adaptation of the novel is the centerpiece of the Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival, is the granddaughter of a Baptist minister. A Prescient Sci-Fi ‘Parable’ Gets Set to Music 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z She recorded it live, for an album of the same name, at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, in Los Angeles; the album eventually went on to become the highest-selling gospel release of all time. Aretha Franklin Is As Immortal As Can Be 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Consider Ephesians 5:22-24, the verse that the Southern Baptist Convention upholds but Carter disagrees with: Is religion inherently oppressive? 2014-04-12T12:00:00Z Wading through the research, Mr. Baptist said he realized that he had two big stories. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z They were active in their local Baptist church, where his father led the choir. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The result is a network comedy that sends up sex, sin and Southern Baptists, or at least the pious parvenus of Dallas. The TV Watch: Kristin Chenoweth and Annie Potts in ABC?s ?GCB? 2012-03-01T23:09:54Z While in London, Ms. Baptist dived into works by artists of color and familiarized herself with names beyond legends like Malik Sidibé. African Photos Are the Backbone of a Living Room Gallery 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z IN 1995, a century and a half after it was founded by supporters of slavery, the Southern Baptist Convention apologised to African-Americans. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The first of the three sites is in Savannah, Ga., at the First African Baptist Church, which calls itself America’s oldest black church and was once a hiding place for runaway slaves. | 'John Mellencamp: It?s About You': ?John Mellencamp: It?s About You,? by Kurt and Ian Markus - Review 2012-01-03T23:26:44Z Developed during slavery in Baptist and Methodist sects that frowned upon dancing and drums, the ring shout is a sneaky way of retaining both in church, and of blending African spirituality with Christianity. Review: ‘Run Mary Run’ Features Rashida Bumbray at SummerStage 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Baptist Town is an insular community, and when the outside world does intrude it is often in unwelcome ways. “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z McKinstry, who lives in Birmingham now and works at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, said she's glad to hear about it when survivors of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., received counseling. Bombing victim grateful for tragedy counseling 2013-01-05T22:46:04Z By 1964, about 91 percent of the neighborhood's residents were African-American, and the temple was home to the Friendship Baptist Church. Lawndale religious icon set for demolition 2011-12-23T02:22:00Z When I found out about that job, I was filming Netflix’s “Rustin,” playing Mahalia Jackson, so I’m giving full Christian, Southern Baptist auntie. Da’Vine Joy Randolph Doesn’t Want Anyone Finishing Her Sentences 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z The Southern Baptists are staking their institutional future and finances on the idea that Old Time patriarchal heaven-and-hell religion still has a market and will for some time to come. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Growing up in a strict Southern Baptist household, she discovered binge eating early, with her father constantly monitoring what she and her mother put in their mouths. Criticized for her weight, opera star Deborah Voigt speaks up 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The Abyssinian Mass, written to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York, showed Marsalis's musical direction at its best, its worst, and all points in between. Abyssinian Mass – review 2012-07-17T18:30:01Z The Rockefellers were devout Baptists and believed in equality indeed still to this day. From the "Green Book" to Buicks, PBS' "Driving While Black" examines the history of Black mobility 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z In the Baptist tradition, when the spirit stirs you, you move. ‘Amazing Grace’: How Aretha Franklin Took Us All to Church 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Baugus credits his own powerful singing style to the inner sanctum of old-time music, the Baptist Church. Carolinian banjo man Riley Baugus tops folk fest 2011-12-08T21:43:03Z He was a Baptist lay preacher, a deeply private man of great moral integrity and stature. Tom Fleming obituary 2010-04-20T18:08:00Z Yet that may be your experience of “Instant Dreams,” a picture directed by Willem Baptist about the end of the Polaroid camera and the “instant film” it used. ‘Instant Dreams’ Review: Polaroid’s Too-Secret Ingredient 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z This 32-year-old playwright, whose “Brother/Sister Plays” first made him a theatrical figure of note, grew up in Miami and sang in the choir of the Missionary Baptist Church until he was 10. In Tarell McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ a Student Finds His Voice 2013-06-28T21:26:36Z A Georgia Baptist by upbringing and a social worker by training, Daniels talks about fatherhood in a language of suffering and redemption. Absent father no longer: men confront stereotypes to become involved parents 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z He turned to songwriting in 1963 when he met Simpson, a music student, at the White Rock Baptist church in Harlem, New York, where she was a featured singer. Nickolas Ashford obituary 2011-08-23T14:25:23Z His father was a Baptist minister who moonlighted as a vacuum-cleaner salesman. Stan Freberg, Madcap Adman and Satirist, Dies at 88 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The measure is the latest in a series of resolutions approved in recent years by the Southern Baptists to repudiate their denomination’s heritage of racism. Southern Baptists declare war on the alt-right 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z I was born and raised in the Piney Woods of East Texas, and grew up evangelical — my family attended a Southern Baptist congregation. A Labor Day Thank You for the Arts 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “It was undoubtedly a haven of hope and a site of solace for those who were enduring the suffocation of slavery,” said Mark William Olson, of Shiloh Baptist Church’s history and archives committee. In (and around) Fredericksburg, Va., walking the steps of a slave’s Trail to Freedom 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z King read directly from the Declaration two years later, in a July 4, 1965 speech at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and praised its “profound, eloquent and unequivocal language.” Declaration of Independence still inspires activists 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z This year, the city will erect its first statue to Dr. King, in front of the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church where he used to preach near the Capitol. In Montgomery, a City Embedded With Pain, Finding Progress 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z These are a religious background — subtext — for a portrait of a secular but Baptist community on the Mississippi River. Review: Ballet Memphis Shatters Basic Rules 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Eich lives in central Virginia, but over the next seven years he returned to Baptist Town often, photographing football games and funerals, bachelor parties and baptisms, to create a detailed portrait of life there. “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z In "The Half Has Never Been Told," Baptist adds many new, stark and essential elements to that story. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In 1977 he joined the faculty of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, now Palmer Theological Seminary, in St. Davids, Pa., where he was an emeritus professor at his death. Ronald J. Sider, Who Urged Evangelicals to Social Action, Dies at 82 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z On a fence outside New Hope Baptist Church, mourners left condolence cards and placed candles, flowers and even a rosary. ArtsBeat: Praise and Grief at Whitney Houston's Childhood Church 2012-02-12T22:29:26Z She followed the stage-to-the-pulpit path taken by the likes of Little Richard and Al Green, and founded a small Baptist ministry in Los Angeles that organized food and clothing drives for the homeless. Mable John, Soul Singer With a Star-Studded Résumé, Dies at 91 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Published by the American Baptist Publication Society, this is a religious novel about temperance and uplift. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The subject was a single traumatic event: the bombing, of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 1963. Indelible Impressions From 3 Shows in Washington 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The church, one of the oldest African-American Baptist churches in the United States, acquired the bell in 1886. Obama to Ring In Opening of African American Museum 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z In fact, by the 1970s it appeared that the Southern Baptists might be ready to move into a position at the vanguard of Christianity. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Many Black churches are led by men who feel ill-equipped to speak on abortion even if they personally disagree with it, says Pastor Earle J. Fisher of Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis. Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Grace Baptist Church's website says its congregation was founded by five black women in 1888. Funeral planned for Heavy D at historic NY church 2011-11-12T04:40:09Z He is a devout Baptist and I thought it might be difficult in case he thought any less of me or stopped me seeing my nephews. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z It's interesting to track the growing cinematic sophistication of those preaching/filmmaking brothers of Sherwood Baptist Church — from "Facing the Giants" to their breakout hit "Fireproof" to their latest film, "Courageous." 'Courageous': 4 officers deal with faith, family 2011-09-29T20:03:04Z Limor Tomer, a friend of the couple who was ordained by Open Ministry for the occasion, officiated at the ceremony, which incorporated African-American Baptist and Jewish traditions. When Art and Music Collide 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z While driving home from the school the other night, I noticed Fairview Baptist’s roadside sign, which I think deserves the final word on this matter: “Let your faith be bigger than your fear.” Civilities: A grandma asks about ‘our rights’ after a gay story is read in class 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The regulars include a lot of German Baptist families who come in to do a big batch of something or homesteaders and moms “who want to know what’s in the can.” Public canneries help food lovers save the season. So why are they disappearing? 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Why did urban black Baptist churches initially resist gospel music, with its rural overtones? Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The hierophant, under his neon-yellow mitre and mask, was the Rev. Dr. Robert M. Price, theologian, professor of biblical criticism, and former fundamentalist Baptist. Croissants with Cthulhu 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Her most recent Rae Beast production, “Unearth Birmingham,” is more urgent: a response to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church by members of the Ku Klux Klan. A Choreographer and Her Girls Retell a Tragedy Through Dance 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Essential to this effort was the work of Isaac McCoy, described by Saunt as a “sincere” and “naïve” Baptist missionary who envisioned a land uniting all the native peoples in “one body politic” called “Aboriginia.” ‘Unworthy Republic’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Indian Removal in the 1830s 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Thanks to the food bank, Columbia Baptist Church produced more than 1,000 pounds of food last year from four gardens at its Alexandria and Falls Church locations and donations from home gardeners. Capital Area Food Bank demonstration garden’s aim: to grow more gardens Young Mary went to nearby Judson College, a Baptist school for women, where she studied English and journalism. Mary Ward Brown, 95, Award-Winning Short Story Writer, Dies 2013-05-22T22:29:16Z They settled in Harlem, where Flo learned about Adam Clayton Powell Jr., then the senior pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church, whom she described as "right down my protest alley." What's missing from this book? Pioneering black feminist Flo Kennedy's blazing personality 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z The 68-year-old soul singer turned Baptist preacher said the honor was different from selling millions of records or winning multiple Grammys. Kennedy Center Honors Five, Second to None 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z A deft speaker who uses traditional pastoral tropes like call and response, Mr. Bernard crafts his 45-minute sermons like mash-ups of a university lecture and a Baptist revival, though Mr. Bernard’s church is pointedly nondenominational. The Power Pastor: How A.R. Bernard Built a New York Megachurch 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z “I didn’t know how big the topic was going to be,” Mr. Baptist, 44, said in a telephone interview from Ithaca, N.Y. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Her father, Fred, who died just before her birth, was a deacon at St. Mark’s Baptist Church, and her mother, the former Hazel Smith, was a housemaid. Linda Hopkins, a Tony-Winning Actress and Singer, Dies at 92 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Highlights include the Apollo Theater, the Abyssinian Baptist Church and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where the tour begins. Spare Times for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “I’m a shaky man,” her famous father told reporters when his wife was admitted to Baptist Memorial Hospital for the birth, an occasion that made international news. Lisa Marie Presley, Singer-Songwriter and Daughter of Elvis, Dies at 54 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z How she discovered the or gan: Evans’s mother was an organist, her mother’s mother was an organist, and by the time she was 15, she was the regular organist at Groveton Baptist Church. From players, pipes and pedals, a celestial song 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z A gifted singer as a child, she was performing with the children’s choir of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem by the time she was 6. Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z “There isn’t a great deal of historical Christianity or explicit theological content in their worship,” said R. Albert Mohler Jr., the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Tattoos, Bieber, Black Lives Matter and Jesus 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Did Mr. Driver, a wayward Baptist whose stepfather is a pastor, find God in any of his suffering? Adam Driver Takes the Wheel 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z A month later, at the First Baptist Church here, Joye in Aiken held a performance of Bach’s “Saint Matthew Passion.” Joye Cottage, a Love Story 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z At a recent Sunday afternoon performance in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood, the pianist Francisco Haye sat behind a piano at Emmanuel Baptist Church, leading his quintet through a number of recognizable jazz standards. Cisco Swank ‘Is Black Music. All of It.’ 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The Southern Baptists broke from their northern brethren in 1845, as war between the states loomed. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z There in Ebenezer Baptist Church, in his eighth decade of life, Al Gore was something other, something more, especially as he summoned the voice of a future generation to chastise his own. Al Gore is near the end of his quest to save the Earth. Nina Barrett just got started. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The decision elicited a number of fiery responses from other members of the SBC, including Albert Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Southern Baptist Convention kicks out church for being too tolerant of LGBT members 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Born in Norfolk, Va., Clemons was the grandson of a Baptist minister and began playing the saxophone when he was 9. E Street Band sax player Clarence Clemons dies 2011-06-19T01:55:13Z Then, 90 miles north in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in an act of racist terrorism, killing four black girls on a Sunday in 1963. Rep. John Lewis on ‘Selma’ and the memories it brings to life 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z A ceremonial arrival is scheduled for 9 a.m. at United Missionary Baptist Church, 4242 W. Roosevelt Road, followed by public viewing from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Funeral today for slain Chicago police officer 2012-01-05T14:49:00Z It faced the old National Baptist Hotel, at that time an abandoned building my sisters and I thought was haunted. The soul songs that saved me: Sexuality, the South, sadness, meet Al Green and Aretha 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z The Westboro Baptist Church seems unlikely to make the trip for the UK dates. Kevin Smith's Red State pickets the Westboro Baptist Church 2011-08-18T21:44:00Z On Good Friday, April 12, Dr. King and about forty others marched from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church along a route lined with supporters. Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z After the Civil War, Robert Lumpkin’s widow, a former slave named Mary, leased the property to a Baptist minister seeking to build a seminary for freed slaves. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Like a scene from “Game of Thrones,” the Rubens shows a grinning maidservant pulling the tongue out from St. John the Baptist’s freshly severed head as she presents it on a platter to Salome. Obsessed by the Present, Who’s Got Time for Old Masters? 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z When, at 14, Baldwin told her he had decided to give up writing and theatergoing to become a child evangelist — David was a Baptist preacher — they parted ways. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z R. Kelly brought the New Hope Baptist Church to its feet with a stirring version of "I Look to You," the title of Houston's final studio album. Whitney Houston's voice still soars 2012-02-19T11:51:16Z He organized a few buses and a caravan of other vehicles that left First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta on Thursday morning carrying more than 200 people. Calls for 'justice' at Trayvon Martin rally 2012-03-23T11:47:00Z The building, the former First African Baptist Church, holds deep significance for Mr. Wilder. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z His word was essentially scripture at Spotswood Baptist Church, a powerful right-wing church in Virginia and my second home throughout the 1990s. Why Christian Right leader James Dobson blocked me on Twitter 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Missionaries, many from the United States, have been hugely successful in turning Nagas into Baptists; the biggest buildings in the ramshackle towns are their churches. India's final frontier 2010-12-11T00:06:21Z The bride and groom, holding hands, fought tears throughout the traditional Baptist ceremony. A New Life for an Old-School Couple 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Quint Davis says his father died Wednesday after going into Ochsner Baptist Medical Center for tests. Superdome architect Arthur Davis dies, age 91 2011-12-01T16:54:10Z How a prized daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church came to question its beliefs. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Archive Stories of 2018 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The words are an abridged version of those King spoke in an address he made at his Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, two days before he was assassinated on 28 August 1963. Martin Luther King memorial: 'Drum major' quote to be removed at $1m cost 2012-12-13T16:53:05Z Over two hours in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, he and Karey recounted their religious Southern upbringing, their early careers and how they went from singing in Southern Baptist churches to writing Broadway musicals. They Adapted ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ and Their Personal Beliefs 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z His first performances were in a Baptist church. A ‘Hamilton’ Star’s Story: How Leslie Odom Jr. Became Aaron Burr, Sir 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Other places worth exploring within the site include Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. King was baptized. 8 Trips Inspired by Oscar-Nominated Films 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z When Washington was 17, he became a member of the African Baptist Church on Sophia Street, where the Shiloh Baptist Church stands today, receiving baptism and later marrying here. In (and around) Fredericksburg, Va., walking the steps of a slave’s Trail to Freedom 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Three others used the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Ga., which calls itself “the oldest black church in North America.” Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z Raised Southern Baptist in Tulsa, Mr. Champion developed his own voice as a singer in his church choir, and in high school he performed in productions of “The Music Man,” “Carousel” and “Brigadoon.” Alan Champion, Sign-Language Interpreter for Theater, Dies at 55 2011-04-25T14:54:32Z Lewis is today a Georgia congressman, but half a century ago, when the 6th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. was bombed, he was a prominent civil rights activist. Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for The Underground Railroad 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Some also complained that the Baptist rituals were too ostentatious. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z A Mississippi-born leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, the bedrock faith of many of the state’s conservatives, wrote, “Let’s take down that flag.” In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z He was born Arthur Goldberg, a Jewish factory worker’s son whose passion for Black music began through hearing the singers at a nearby Baptist church. Art Rupe, pioneering record executive, dead at 104 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z But it’s the first informed by another huge gift: the 4,000 items of Hopper memorabilia donated to the museum several years ago by the family of a Baptist minister from Hopper’s hometown, Nyack, N.Y. How Did a Minister Come to Own Hundreds of Edward Hoppers? 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z "At the beginning of the passage we see John the Baptist baptizing Jesus," she says. Lent: What is it and why do we observe it? 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z So for two nights in Los Angeles, at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Franklin tended those roots with one of the most astounding performances anybody’s ever given of anything. Aretha Franklin Didn’t Want You to See This Movie. But You Must. 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “Malcolm is as much a part of the Black religious experience as anybody else,” Calvin Butts, the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, told Gates. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s located across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church headquarters. It’s a hard time to be a homophobe 2013-03-20T15:40:00Z Each summer the Hortons, a Black Baptist family, trek in their minivan from their home in Texas to small towns scattered across the South, “bringing the word of God like manna to the starving.” An Invigorating Novel About Faith, Family and Falling From Grace 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z More recently, the orchestra released a live 2014 recording of Marsalis’ jubilant oratorio, “The Abyssinian Mass,” commissioned to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, featuring Chorale Le Chateau. Wynton Marsalis: Too busy for the White House — but not for a tour stop in Seattle 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The Rev. Elijah McDavid III, senior pastor at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Minneapolis and a childhood friend of the bride, officiated. Her Easy Confidence Felt Excitingly Familiar 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z When Susan yells, “Police get it wrong all the time! It’s a fact!,” she may as well be an antivaxxer or a Westboro Baptist Church member in the eyes of the jury. 'Broadchurch' Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: The Center Collapses 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z We were rural Missionary Baptists with no car and no phone — my father dead, my mother unemployed. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z They were married on New Year’s Eve at the Church of the Village in New York, before the Rev. Dr. Isaac Mwase, a Baptist minister, and 267 of their friends and family members. Adding a Wedding to the Highlight Reel 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The Rev. Patti Welch, a Lutheran minister and a canon at the cathedral, performed the ceremony, with the Rev. Michael A. Walrond Jr., a Baptist minister, taking part. It Took 35 Years to Realize They’ve Always Been in the Same Room 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z “I grew up in a house that was on my mother’s side Nation of Islam and on my father’s side Southern Baptist,” Jones said. Robert Jones Jr. Is Son of Baldwin, and More 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z With Ryan Eller, a Baptist preacher who heard Vargas speak at a college in Indiana, he runs Define American, a nonprofit group that pushes for more liberal immigration law. From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run “It was getting in the way of the words and the meaning. I wanted to take that song back even further than Dock took it. I wanted to give it the old Primitive Baptist treatment.” Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z To pick all that cotton, landowners in the old southwest purchased and transported large numbers of slaves from Virginia and Maryland, Baptist writes. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Established just after the Civil War, Mount Zion Baptist Church is one of Nashville’s oldest black congregations. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z They first performed at Holy Trinity Baptist Church, just up the street. She’s still taking us there: Mavis Staples soars again in late career 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Before about 40 close friends and relatives, Ken Mahanes, an ordained Southern Baptist Minister, officiated the short nondenominational ceremony written mostly by Ms. Leas. A Love of Adventure Leads to Love Near Home 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The Alabama Film Office says some streets will be closed as filming takes place at the front of the Capitol and at the King Memorial Dexter Avenue Baptist Church near the Capitol. “Selma” movie to film at Alabama Capitol on Friday 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z His marker stands outside the Green Grove Baptist Church, though his pulpit was actually at another Baptist church in town, White Star. The Freedom Trail in Mississippi Is a Chronicle of Outrage and Courage 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Congregations will now have the option to call themselves “Great Commission Baptists.” Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Her father, a Mexican immigrant who was a Baptist preacher in Nebraska, died in 2003. Adult Children of AIDS Victims Take Their Memories Out of the Shadows 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Futral enrolled at Samford University, a Baptist college near Birmingham, Ala., intending to teach music but took a decisive step toward a performing career by earning her master’s degree at Indiana University. Elizabeth Futral at Lincoln Center Festival and Glimmerglass 2012-07-18T21:49:41Z I myself, as a child raised in a fundamentalist Baptist household, considered the idea of blood sacrifice too ridiculous to swallow. Rethinking Easter through Paul the Apostle: Why evangelicals get it wrong 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Later that year, when white supremacists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, it was four teenage girls attending Sunday school who died. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Billy Norris Sherrill was born on Nov. 5, 1936, in Phil Campbell, Ala. His father was an itinerant Baptist preacher, and as the family traveled, the young Billy would play piano at prayer meetings. Billy Sherrill, Producer Who Brought New Sound to Country Music, Dies at 78 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Webb was born and raised in Oklahoma, the son of a Baptist preacher. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-06-03T22:22:00Z But a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., where Whitney Houston sang as a child. Cissy Houston writing book about Whitney Houston 2012-06-04T22:01:09Z She graduated from Dallas Baptist University and received a master’s degree in English from the University of Dallas. Amanda Hite, Julie Rodgers 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z The church’s former occupants belonged to an African-American Baptist community dating from 1892. The Pews Went, but the Spirit Stayed in a Kansas City Church 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Baptists bank on fire and brimstone Topics: , , , , The Bible The Southern Baptist Convention is a force to be reckoned with. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z “It was horrible,” said the Rev. Dr. Benilda Armstead Jones, a Baptist minister who was one of Newburgh’s religious leaders summoned to say prayers over the remains as they were removed. Should a Park Include a Burial Ground? Residents of Newburgh, N.Y., Can’t Agree. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Williams, the banker, and Sidney Harper, a disc jockey at WonderLust, both attended Mississippi College, a private Baptist institution. Inside the hottest gay bar in the most homophobic state in the nation 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The last stream I watched, on Monday, was from that funeral, at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. Webcams in Ferguson offer noncurated views distinct from TV news 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “Chauvin is in the courtroom, but America is on trial,” boomed the Rev. Al Sharpton from the pulpit of Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church on Sunday. Outside the courthouse, Minneapolis weighs the meaning of the Chauvin trial 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z A spokeswoman at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem says Watson remains in critical condition Friday morning. Folk musician Doc Watson critical in NC hospital 2012-05-25T12:29:08Z The Rev. Al Sharpton, 64, is a Baptist minister, longtime social justice activist, and founder and president of the National Action Network, a nonprofit civil rights organization based in Harlem. Al Sharpton says he’s not an ambulance chaser: ‘I’m the ambulance.’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Later, as a student at a conservative Baptist college, I had to complete a chronological chart of the end times in order pass a mandatory Bible class. The Leftovers: confusion and doubt mirrors my religious journey 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The non-fiction film, which was 46 years in the making, captures the Queen of Soul as she records her wildly successful album in a Baptist church. Box Office: 'Shazam!' grows to $53 million debut 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The Alfred Street Baptist Church, in Alexandria, Va., donated $1 million to the museum, while three couples who belong to the church gave individual contributions totaling an additional $4 million. How the Fight for a National African-American Museum Was Won 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Supporters say dedicating a portion of the highway is an appropriate way to honor the musical and cultural icon, who grew up in Detroit and learned the gospel fundamentals at New Bethel Baptist Church. Michigan House OKs designating highway for Aretha Franklin 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The extremist Westboro Baptist Church tweeted at the author, saying they would picket the fictional wedding. See J.K. Rowling's Twitter Spat With Westboro Baptist Church 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Programs were stacked next to a basket of honey bun cakes, made by a parishioner at a Baptist church. Lisa D’Amour Juggles ‘Airline Highway’ and ‘Milton,’ a Tale of Five Towns 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The choir from King's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta also was planning to sing. President Obama to dedicate new MLK Memorial in DC 2011-10-16T10:31:05Z Franklin’s father was a Baptist preacher in Detroit, and the gospel singing she heard in his church was her musical foundation. 'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies aged 76: AP 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z But back to this idea of the South, Baptist church — some place in Hawkinsville, Ga. Songwriter or Star? The-Dream, Muni Long and Two Paths to the Grammys. 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The quilt is from Home Baptist Missionary Society, First Baptist Church of Sonora, Calif. And in it is part of the story of African Americans in the West. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z One was Lana Turner, a collector of vintage fashion who Mr. Calmese first encountered at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, where he now lives. The Black Photographer Making History at Vanity Fair 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z As performed by the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Legendary Soul Stirrers, the Steeles and the Inspirational Voices of Abyssinian Baptist Church, the swell of blues and soul streaming off the stage is tremendous. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z See More » Your father, the Rev. C. L. Franklin, was a prominent civil rights activist and a Baptist preacher. Aretha Franklin on Singing for Pope Francis and Her Next Album 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z The remnants of the hut, or the charcoal from an arson attack on a black Baptist church in Kentucky get suspended and take on a new dimension. Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010-05-25T20:31:00Z It's set in a middle-class, upwardly mobile family in Philadelphia, led by a Baptist preacher who finds his ambitions thwarted by his nearest and dearest. This week's new theatre 2013-01-12T06:00:19Z The cotton boom that started just after 1800 changed the American economy, Baptist argues. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Maryland is one of four states that will be voting on whether to move forward on same-sex marriage in November, so it’s a subject close to Baptist minister Burns’ heart. Football gets LGBT-positive 2012-09-10T16:25:00Z Searching for salvation, he visits the Peace Baptist Church, whose preacher urges him to embrace evangelical Christianity. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The unfamiliar face showed up one Sunday at All Nations Baptist Church on Washington’s North Capitol Street, a once-working-class neighborhood fast filling up with condominiums. What’s the right reaction when a white stranger walks into a black church? 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z While preaching at Scott Memorial Baptist Church in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon, Dr. LaHaye formed Californians for Biblical Morality, which encouraged evangelicals in the state to become politically active. Tim LaHaye, evangelical author of ‘Left Behind’ book series, dies at 90 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z And my wife’s father is a Baptist pastor. John Legend and the ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Cast on Faith and Musicals 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The petition, which had about 1,030 signatures Tuesday morning, said Meacham’s “beliefs and core values do not align with those of Samford University, as it is a Southern Baptist institution.” College cancels Meacham talk over Planned Parenthood ties 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z You were raised, for a while, as a Southern Baptist, like Della. 'That '70s Show's' Debra Jo Rupp on her new 'Cake' and breaking the rules — in baking and in life 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The funeral service will be held at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark. Whitney Houston to be buried next to father 2012-02-17T17:21:28Z Soon enough, she says, “Word got out that a girlchild in the St. Paul Baptist could sing like a full-grown woman, with grown-up feelings and strength.” A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z Whoopi Goldberg has written an essay for the catalog; the designer LaQuan Smith will be speaking at the Palm Beach event; and in New York the Abyssinian Baptist choir will perform. The Fashion Sale of the Century 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z His family were what used to be called “hard-shelled” Baptists, and they were caught up in the second great awakening, which swept the frontier and was really, quite frankly, violent. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z More than 70 groups have joined so far, the orchestra said, including PUBLIQuartet, Emmanuel Baptist Church and the Bulgarian Children’s Chorus. A Facebook First for New York Philharmonic: Streaming Its 175th Anniversary Opener 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z He nervously broached the unconventional career path with his dad, Otis Medley, a Baptist pastor. Rehab continues for comic wounded in shooting 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z There is also David, a womanizing Baptist minister, and his girlfriend, Leila, a graduate student who works at Planned Parenthood. John Adams' 'Ceiling/Sky' remains earthbound 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Her father, a builder, had grown up with the Salvation Army and Baptists; her mother was a Roman Catholic. What is it like to live with parents very different from you? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z "If I don't get ran out by Catholics, here come some conservative Baptists," he says on "Black Skinhead." Review: Kanye West eerie, erratic on 'Yeezus' 2013-06-17T13:04:18Z His father was also the preacher at the local Baptist church. James Cotton, Blues Harmonica Legend, Dies at 81 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z "The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy," Baptist writes. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z LifeWay is affiliated to the US Southern Baptist Convention as its retail arm. Retailer's decision to drop The Blind Side upsets Christian faithful 2012-07-17T16:14:12Z Convent Baptist Church in Harlem played a crucial role in my life after my mom and my brothers moved to that section of the city. Charles Payne on the true joy of Christmas: 'Always something you can do' for others 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Brown said that a friend of his complained that Eich’s work “made Baptist Town look bad.” “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland on Aug. 2, 1939, and he was brought up in a firmly observant Baptist home. Wes Craven, master of horror and slasher films, dies at 76 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Jefferson and Madison won the debate, in part because of strong backing from Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, and some Presbyterians who considered any support from government an intrusion on their religious ambitions. Should atheists fight for religion in government? 2013-04-16T18:50:00Z Or the Southern Baptist Convention, which also spent decades reflexively shielding abusers. What the Ruby Franke story says about the Christian right 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z He tells the story when someone says a church, not Huested, owns Sunergos, or when they say his employees are all Baptists bent on converting customers. “Where are your Bibles?”: Jesus, Kentucky and the best lattes in the South 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Even there, they celebrated Thanksgiving as they remembered it — with a Baptist church service, followed by a large communal meal that everyone in the area stopped by to enjoy. Marking a Different Thanksgiving Tradition, From West Africa 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z In Atlanta or the south there could be a super homosexual man who is also super religious in a Baptist church, and he’s black too. The writers of FX's Atlanta: 'We’re not interested in being Sesame Street' 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Previously he was a Baptist, but started growing closer to Catholicism after marrying Callista- a lifelong Roman Catholic - 10 years ago. Newt Gingrich promotes film on Pope John Paul II 2010-06-09T17:55:00Z Folklore Productions represents Watson and says he is improving after the surgery Thursday night at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Musician Doc Watson has surgery at NC hospital 2012-05-25T17:52:09Z Saturday, while Thomas was taken to the Baptist Medical Center South, where he was pronounced dead. Rapper Doe B Killed in Alabama Bar Shooting 2013-12-29T16:21:00Z That would have been a biblical zinger there, but that wouldn't have brought a pillar of fire down from the heavens to destroy the Westboro Baptist Church. Comic-Con report: Geeks vs. fundamentalist Christians 2010-07-23T15:12:00Z As News4Jax reported Sunday, many locals say they’re not surprised at all at the content of Mandarin’s First Conservative Baptist Church message — apparently it’s pretty typical of its philosophical stance. “Homosexuals must repent or go to Hell”: Florida church’s neighbors are fighting back against its anti-LGBT message 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The nation’s largest Baptist university has been gripped by the ongoing scandal that led to the firing of football coach Art Briles and the departure of school president Ken Starr in 2016. New Baylor lawsuit alleges 52 rapes by football players in four-year period 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1955, Marshall was 8 when four local children were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in the notorious 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Timothy Wilson, a Baptist chaplain with the United States Joint Special Operations Command, officiated; he was the groom's battalion chaplain while they were deployed to Mosul, Iraq, in 2005. Elizabeth Pearce, George Zoulias 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z Behind Coleman-Madison is the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four girls were murdered in a 1963 bombing, and which has become a top tourist destination. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z When Monique Harouna, 51, showed up at a vaccination center in the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York's most famous predominantly Black neighborhood, on Sunday, she knew there was a to-do going on. Can Jill Biden help move the needle on vaccination rates? 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z They were wed on Nov. 27 at the Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church in Milwaukee, which is the Childs family’s church and just a few blocks from Dr. Terry’s childhood home. For Middle School Sweethearts, a Second Chance 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z "We were electing the Southern Baptist Convention's first African-American president and did not want to distract from that historic moment." Retailer's decision to drop The Blind Side upsets Christian faithful 2012-07-17T16:14:12Z Over the years, Southern Baptist deacons and pastors moved in and out of Ku Klux Klan leadership positions. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z She began her musical career as a child singing gospel at the city’s New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father, C.L. Aretha Franklin to be hailed as American institution at funeral 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It all leads up to a concert at a Southern Baptist Church – Seelig’s first time inside one in decades. What happened when a gay choir toured America's Bible belt 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The single-faith graduation exercises combined evangelical/Baptist Christian religiosity with its associated ethical vision of personal piety and Christian witness in a secular world. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z Kate Bowler, a historian at Duke Divinity School who has studied evangelical women celebrities, said Moore's departure is a significant loss for the Southern Baptist Convention. Evangelicals lost a major female leader over Trump supporter hypocrisy – will other women follow? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Monday at Cool Springs Missionary Baptist Church, which is near the store. Miss. folk artist 'Preacher' Dennis dies at 96 2012-09-07T01:16:03Z The viewing for the actor, who died last week at age 96, will be held on Monday at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, according to a statement by her family through her manager Larry Thompson. Public viewing for Cicely Tyson at famed Harlem church 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Now, in the lustrous acoustics of First Baptist Church on Harvard Avenue, it was the turn of the viola da gamba, the viol family’s forerunner of the cello. Music that speaks, thanks to Pacific MusicWorks 2014-04-11T18:02:17Z He began as a likable teenage performer at Houston's only comedy club in the late '70s, doing gentle, spoofy skits about his meddlesome Baptist parents. The subversive legacy of comic Bill Hicks 2011-04-05T22:01:00Z The proceeds to be split between the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and the Mt. The Fashion Sale of the Century 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z And in March, Beth Moore, a very popular female Southern Baptist author and speaker, publicly announced that she was leaving the group, citing the SBC's approval of Donald Trump and its views on gender. From abortion and porn to women and race: How Southern Baptist Convention resolutions have evolved 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Both are also active in their churches, she at Tillson Community Church and he at Cross Point Fellowship Baptist Church in Hurley. Wedding Bells for Two 95-Year-Olds 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z We reach a lot of unchurched people,” said Sharon Reagan, Central Baptist’s music director. Welcome to a Texas hell house, where wayward Christians are scared straight 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z I played a Baptist preacher, which is my background—just channelled all that stuff I remembered from my childhood. The Last Living Bohemian in Chelsea Tells All 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Here, too, are powerful reminders of the pivotal role First African Baptist played as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Aretha Franklin was young girl singing in her father’s Baptist church. Moby?s Choice for the All-TIME 100 Songs List 2011-10-25T16:30:12Z The Baptists rule in West Virginia, where the population is almost entirely white. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z He began his formal training at age 7 with the music of his Baptist church as his earliest influence. Jazz keyboardist George Duke dead at 67 2013-08-06T18:30:43Z How they build one another — Vivian and her daughters, their friends and fellow congregants at Shiloh Baptist Church — is the clear, high note Sexton plays until you know it by heart. A Mom Plans. Her Daughters Do Their Own Things, as Daughters Do. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z “Let’s just say that being an Arab kid in a southern Baptist universe during the Gulf war was not fun,” he says. Dolly Parton's America: how the country star inspired a hit podcast 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Yet vegetables are sprouting a couple of blocks away on spare land between buildings in the centre of Anacostia, in 80 raised beds, thanks to volunteers from Union Temple Baptist Church. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Snoop Dogg: As a kid, I was pushed into the Baptist church, taught that way. Q&A: Snoop Dogg on criticism, religion, reggae CD 2013-03-14T13:21:09Z In both Ulrich’s article and in media coverage surrounding the Williams case, members — mostly women — involved in the Southern Baptist Convention urged leaders to take some form of systemic action. Southern Baptists and #MeToo: Advocates for church sex abuse victims push for reform 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Her father, a Primitive Baptist preacher and a forceful singer, hauled timber to feed the household. Hazel Dickens, Folk Singer, Dies at 75 2011-04-23T01:56:56Z Bill Baptist, a photographer working as an independent contractor for the NBA, was fired from his position after posting the meme to his Facebook account last week. Amazon removes shirts with offensive meme referencing Kamala Harris 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Or head to the Convent Avenue Baptist Church and ask if you can sit with the congregation. 36 Hours in Upper Manhattan 2014-02-20T19:20:26Z Now 37, he was raised as a Baptist in Athens, Georgia, but found the Lord’s house a confusing place. All hail Tituss, breakout star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z I grew up attending Southern Baptist churches during the mid-2000s, when purity had become a pop culture buzzword after the Jonas Brothers donned rings to symbolize their commitment to abstinence before marriage. How the religious right's purity culture enables predatory behavior 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Looff’s father retired as an obstetrician/gynecologist in Lexington for Baptist Health. Rachel Looff, Ashley Ruderman 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z An uncle, a cousin and a grandfather were preachers, and as a boy he attended Seventh-day Adventist, Baptist and Holiness churches and aspired to be a singing evangelist. Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z That Golden Era wasn’t in the 1980s when reporters treated evangelicals as bumblers and missed the significance of the conservatives’ takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention. Religion’s media persecution complex 2013-04-23T22:01:00Z Appearing in a jazz vespers service at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, he leads a band featuring Cyrus Chestnut, a jazz pianist with a strong foundation in gospel music. Jazz Listings for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z “It’s not about espousing our faith,” Steve Green, a Southern Baptist who is the museum board’s chairman and president of the Hobby Lobby craft store chain, told reporters this week. Washington's new Museum of the Bible aims to inform, not preach 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Thomas — an up-and-coming rapper known as Doe B — was taken to Baptist Medical Center South, where he was later pronounced dead. Rapper Doe B. Among 2 Killed in Ala. Shooting 2013-12-28T22:59:27Z His mother’s second marriage to a Baptist preacher saw the young Driver increasingly rebelling against his upbringing. Fit for stardom: How Adam Driver went from US Marine to Hollywood heartthrob 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Danny shares that, years ago, he raised funds for the renovation of an LGBTQ-friendly Baptist church in Atlanta by auctioning off relics from the original "Real World New Orleans" season, including his beloved grey sweater. "The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans" recap: Outer darkness 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The “Black Panther” star was laid to rest Sept. 3 at Welfare Baptist Church Cemetery in Belton, South Carolina, about 11 miles from Boseman’s hometown of Anderson, the Los Angeles County Certificate showed. Chadwick Boseman buried near South Carolina hometown 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z She began singing as a child at New Hope Baptist Church, where her mother, Grammy-winning gospel singer Cissy Houston, led the music program for many years. For Houston mourners, a dearth of places to grieve 2012-02-15T11:47:19Z Nor is the First Baptist Church the only Deep South congregation recently caught keeping Jim Crow on life support. Church denies black couple 2012-07-31T19:52:00Z “Baptists in America” is an illuminating book, if at times dense. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s just a medium close-up, straight on, of her at the podium of the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, almost evenly framed between two microphones and a pair of Afros that complement hers. ‘Amazing Grace’ Review: Aretha Franklin Is Glorious in a Rousing Concert Film 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z He grew up listening to gospel music in the Baptist church his family attended. George Duke, Crossover Musician With Frank Zappa, Dies at 67 2013-08-07T02:22:54Z The air itself seems to breathe Southern Baptist. Inside the hottest gay bar in the most homophobic state in the nation 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z A review in Daily Kos said Mr. Baptist “takes apart the myths that our society has created to make us more comfortable with our slave-owning past.” 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z On Jan. 6, before 40 family members, more than half of them Auburn graduates, Ms. Long and Mr. Scott walked down the aisle of McElwain Baptist, a church rich with memories for both. A New Life for an Old-School Couple 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z To date it continues to have broad appeal among Southern Baptist members. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Mr. Baptist imagines the thoughts of a slave being put to death. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The 16th Street Baptist Church has been bombed, claiming the lives of four little girls. John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Churches rise up one after the other: Baptist, Pentecostal, Methodist. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z Franklin's gospel roots run deep, starting with her father who was a prominent Baptist minister. Aretha Franklin going into Gospel Hall of Fame 2012-05-09T12:26:07Z “Amazing Grace,” filmed in January 1972 when the Queen of Soul was just 29 years old, follows Franklin over two nights giving a concert at the New Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Aretha Franklin’s 'Amazing Grace' concert film finally debuts 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z “I wanted to get my arms around the major drivers of change, and then describe them clearly,” said Gore, 64, who will appear at First Hill Baptist Church on Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. Al Gore: Examining the ‘drivers of global change’ 2013-02-07T22:02:57Z The auctioneer "brought down the hammer," Baptist writes. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In other words, the Southern Baptists have placed their bets on a strategy with some history of success. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z That's why it's sweetly nostalgic, even if your actual memories are more like, "Fudge? What are we, Baptists?" Three-ingredient Oreo fudge is a nostalgic treat that tastes like milk and cookies 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Still, Floyd pegged the church’s tolerance as a rejection of Southern Baptist convictions. Southern Baptist Convention kicks out church for being too tolerant of LGBT members 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Durham, where he grew up. The Fashion Sale of the Century 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Her father was a Baptist minister in Mississippi. For Some in Transgender Community, It’s Never Too Late to Make a Change 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, it was attached to a Baptist church and I became an evangelical Christian. The death of a sibling: ‘It makes no sense and never will’ 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z He told me that Lee was only mourning her sister: a public display of grief that he compared to those common in the Baptist Church. Harper Lee and the Mysteries of Monroeville 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z He continued to emphasize gospel material as well, but he began performing it more often in the a-cappella fashion of the Primitive Baptist Church. Ralph Stanley’s Inimitable Voice 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z The most imposing buildings in town were the Baptist church, the Methodist church and the Carnegie Library. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z With a quirky résumé that includes two documentaries about the Westboro Baptist Church, the British journalist and filmmaker Louis Theroux has proved himself a seasoned chronicler of human eccentricity. Review: ‘My Scientology Movie,’ an Offbeat Inquiry 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Outraged community members, including the Rev. Calvin O. Butts III of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, led protests, and the shoe emporium, bowing to the pressure, restored the mural. Louis Delsarte, a Muralist of the Black Experience, Dies at 75 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z A pew in the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem has a plaque, endowed by Ms. Tyson, that reads, “To Mother — Blessed Assurance.” Cicely Tyson and ‘Blessed Assurance’ 2013-05-28T01:53:23Z There were, however, large groups of Southern Baptists who showed up in matching T-shirts that proclaimed their church affiliations. Dollywood: A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Gay 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z She began singing as a child at Newark's New Hope Baptist Church, where her mother, Grammy-winning gospel singer Cissy Houston, led the music program for many years. Authorities: Houston was underwater in tub 2012-02-14T11:46:45Z The musician's nonprofit organization joined Hartford Memorial Baptist Church on Wednesday to distribute 100 gift certificates for Meijer retail and grocery stores, along with more than 300 gift baskets. Kid Rock, Detroit church donate gifts to needy 2011-12-22T12:14:09Z Her father was raised in a sleepy independent Baptist church in rural Georgia in the 1970s. The parentification trap: How evangelical daughters like the Duggar girls become mothers in training 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The police let me through but instructed me not to go any further than a concrete barrier that separated the lawn the Westboro Baptists were standing on and the street. Comic-Con report: Geeks vs. fundamentalist Christians 2010-07-23T15:12:00Z Having grown up Southern Baptist, Mr. Overstreet remains a regular churchgoer, and he is put off by what he sees as the embrace of Mr. Trump by the evangelical right. Hillary Clinton’s Lonesome White Male Supporters 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z A year after “The Jeffersons” left the air, Mr. Hemsley returned to television in “Amen,” a sitcom set in a black Baptist church in Philadelphia. Sherman Hemsley, Star of ‘The Jeffersons’ Dies at 74 2012-07-25T05:07:18Z Why were white preachers often installed at black Baptist churches before the civil war? Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Johnson began to affix ruined objects to his abstract paintings in the aftermath of the notorious 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., a crime so awful that it galvanized the nation. 'Hard Edged' art at California African American Museum widens perception of black artists' work 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Lashon grew up in a strict Baptist family in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood, an area that had once been an upper-class white suburb but was 86 percent Black by 1976, following waves of white flight. How Atlanta History Shaped Lil Baby and Generations of Rappers 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Many of the activists in Ape House are either ridiculous or unnecessarily provocative — the misguided eco-feminists or the "Eastborough Baptist Church" members come to mind — yet you yourself are an advocate of animal rights. Water for Elephants Author Sara Gruen 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z He also attended services at a local black Southern Baptist Church, absorbing the cadence and verbal style of its preachers. The power and the glory of Dusty Rhodes: The “American Dream” who transcended pro wrestling’s racial divide 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z A few months later, she went to Los Angeles and, at a Baptist church in Watts, performed a pure gospel concert that became a double-platinum record, “Amazing Grace.” The History of Aretha, in Ten Videos 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z My parents sent me off to Baptist youth camp in Panama City Beach for the week, and I came home with a tan and a purity ring. My virginity mistake 2013-05-06T01:00:00Z I was raised Southern Baptist, and it was powerful, emotional stuff. John Goodman Was a Man Without a Series. Now He’s Everywhere. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z “My husband loves his son so much,” said Ms. Conley, “but he still is a Baptist pastor, and he believes that you should not act on those feelings.” ‘Boy Erased’ Is Her Story, Too, and the Mom Wore Marchesa 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z It swept up all sorts of people who weren’t in Dorian’s path: meteorologists in Alabama, politicians from Texas and Tennessee, even a Baptist pastor in Kentucky. ‘This isn’t just a stupid story, it’s a big story’: An oral history of Sharpiegate 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The subjects, Gary and Larry Lane, are gay identical twins in their mid-30s from a Southern Baptist background who grew up in a small North Carolina town and moved to Los Angeles a decade ago. Movie Review: ‘Hollywood to Dollywood,’ a Documentary 2012-08-30T23:49:16Z That service at Calvary Baptist Church created the need for another ark. This synagogue needed two arks for the High Holidays. So it turned to a Quaker. 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Born in Italy to an Italian Baptist minister and an American woman from Yakima, Feriante was inspired to study guitar at age 13, after hearing a flamenco player at the Overseas School of Rome. Andre Feriante woos your valentine with Beatles’ love songs | Concert preview 2013-02-14T04:44:39Z The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a museum that sits across the street from 16th Street Baptist. Angela Davis is beloved, detested, misunderstood. What can a lifelong radical teach the resistance generation? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Rich, meditative and overflowing with spiritual power, this song evokes both Coltrane’s childhood playing organ at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Detroit and her adulthood using music to build her spiritual community at her ashram. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z His monumental 1964 ink and charcoal drawing “Birmingham Totem” is a response to the bombing, the previous year, of the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Ala., in which four young black girls were killed. Charles White Was a Giant, Even Among the Heroes He Painted 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “I don’t know what's with me, why I gravitate to the more complicated people,” said the Idaho-born son of a Baptist minister. For Aaron Paul, seeking good after 'Bad' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z A rabbi played by the charismatic Duane Cooper, for example, sometimes thunders with the rich baritone and gesticulant flourishes of a Baptist preacher, and then abruptly starts lilting and shrugging like Billy Crystal. | 'Yes We Can': This Colorblind Woman Can?t Distinguish Black From White 2011-06-29T21:36:42Z Baptists were strict adherents to the separation of church and state. With God on Their Side: How Evangelicals Entered American Politics 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z His handsome red brick church, now named Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, lies a block from the Alabama State Capitol presided over by a statue of Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. 36 Hours in Montgomery, Ala. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Watson, a native of North Carolina, is in critical condition at Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, said Karen Richardson, a spokeswoman for the hospital. Singer Doc Watson in critical condition, hospital says 2012-05-25T04:01:16Z "Pink Dot's agenda goes against our national interests," said Lawrence Khong a senior pastor at the 10,000-strong Faith Community Baptist Church. Record turnout for Singapore gay rally amid religious protests 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z “What would it look like carried out by a group of nuns,” Slater wondered, “or by a rabbi or a Southern Baptist faith healer?” On rebooted ‘Exorcist,’ a new way to get rid of demons: Hugging it out 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z But as an adolescent, Mr. Jordan was at odds with his Southern Baptist upbringing and the therapists and psychiatrists who told him his urges were “the voice of the Prince of Darkness.” Leslie Jordan Adds Gaiety to His ?Trip Down the Pink Carpet? 2010-04-24T00:52:00Z In 1956 the minister of the largest Southern Baptist church in the nation testified before the South Carolina legislature, voicing his support for segregation. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z He left design for Baptist seminary, citing the torturous economy and the “rock ‘n’ roll” atmosphere of working for people in the music industry. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z In one scene of “Watchman” that parallels an actual childhood incident, Dill, Scout and Jem put on a mock Baptist revival, culminating with a baptism in the fish pond. Harper Lee and Truman Capote: A Collaboration in Mischief 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z After taking on the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, the charismatic rockers will be playing to a more receptive audience this summer. Reading and Leeds 2012: festival preview 2012-08-21T11:43:31Z Franklin’s career began in her preacher father’s church—New Bethel Baptist, in Detroit. The History of Aretha, in Ten Videos 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The Kirkpatricks’ own father was a Southern Baptist music minister later called to the pulpit himself. They Adapted ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ and Their Personal Beliefs 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The Rev. Susan G. Sparks performed the ceremony at Madison Avenue Baptist Church, where she is the senior pastor. Anna Jones, Adom Crew 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z “Most Southern Baptist pastors have very little idea how to handle an allegation of sexual or physical abuse in their church, particularly if the allegation is against a friend or staff member,” Burleson said. Southern Baptists and #MeToo: Advocates for church sex abuse victims push for reform 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Other quilts tell of lost children, unfaithful husbands, imprisonment and poverty, of persecuted Baptists and women convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land. Quilts 1700-2010 | Art review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z The son of a black sharecropper who became a Baptist preacher and businessman, Maxwell was known as fastidious, charismatic and hard-working. Review | Harper Lee tried to turn a murder trial into a true crime masterpiece. What happened to the book? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Accepting that award, Sir the Baptist, one of the album’s producers, addressed the straitened finances of historically Black colleges and universities. Beyoncé Makes History at a Star-Powered Grammy Awards Ceremony 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Deli, Matthews Memorial Baptist Church and the IHOP, which I told them was Southeast Washington’s only sit-down restaurant. I gave a famous rock star a windshield tour of D.C. — and didn’t know who she was 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Hence the ludicrous situation where many evangelical organisations, such as the Southern Baptist Convention, have statements of faith where the first point is the Bible, before any mention of, for example, God. How biblical literalism took root 2011-02-21T10:59:00Z American Baptists’ roots lie in the noble struggle for religious liberty. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The small city of Greenwood, Mississippi, at the eastern fringe of the Delta, is home to the historic black neighborhood of Baptist Town. “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z He grew up listening to the music of the Carter Family and singing in the ardent, unaccompanied style of the Primitive Baptist Church. Ralph Stanley, Whose Mountain Music Gave Rise to Bluegrass, Dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Their May 22 wedding, at Cross Point Fellowship Baptist Church, was attended by 50 guests. Wedding Bells for Two 95-Year-Olds 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Three of the trail’s sites are within the same block: the Civil Rights Institute, 16th Street Baptist Church and Kelly Ingram Park. Martin Luther King anniversary: the US Civil Rights Trail 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z By far the most intimate performance on this list took place over two days in January 1972, at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z David Ritz was deep in his element one recent afternoon, taking the measure of a complex life and its cherished music at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. David Ritz Opens Up About Aretha Franklin and Others 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z "Well, his relationship with God, whether it was going to the Baptist church or Messianic synagogue has definitely straightened him up," Kim says. Glen Campbell: One last love song 2011-08-26T22:01:04Z He records Bonhoeffer’s powerful experiences, for example, at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, where the preacher Adam Clayton Powell fulminates: “Obeying God means challenging injustice! You don’t just think about God. … You act!” A Graphic Nonfiction Account of Hitler’s Would-Be Assassin 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z She grew up singing in the town’s Baptist choir and at home, where an older brother accompanied her on the piano. Barbara Smith Conrad, Singer at Center of Integration Dispute, Dies at 79 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “This Hymn” is a reminder of how Coltrane’s music and theology of transformation and liberation were rooted in the emotive, ecstatic and contemplative sounds of Black Baptist and Pentecostal churches. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z This is the South, after all, the Bible Belt, and really, you’d be hard-pressed to find another denomination besides the Baptists except for maybe the Methodists. The Ga. towns that Sherman spared in his March to the Sea Mr. Johnson also cited Mr. Baptist’s argument that huge increases in cotton-picking over the course of the antebellum period were due almost entirely to violence against slaves. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z She lives in Absecon, a small suburb outside of Atlantic City, where she and her husband Buff raise three adopted African American children and run Grace Falls, a Southern Baptist church. The evangelical women who visit strippers to 'show God loves them' 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Indeed, there is some evidence that ministers in the Methodist churches didn't look kindly upon guitar playing at their services, though guitars and tambourines were commonplace in Baptist, Pentecostal, and more sanctified church settings. New book traces the Staples family's soulful journey and unique sound 2014-01-18T06:00:00Z A guided drive to the north end featured an hour at Plum Orchard, another Carnegie mansion preserved by the Park Service, and the ancient one-room Baptist chapel where JFK Jr. wed Carolyn Bessette. On Cumberland Island, you don’t have to choose between roughing it and pampering yourself 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z His most famous work there is the 16th Street Baptist Church, the triple-domed sanctuary where a Ku Klux Klan bombing killed four girls in 1963. Antiques: Works by Haviland Ceramics and Robert R. Taylor 2012-01-12T21:49:49Z They come together at New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston wowed the congregation with her powerful voice even as a young girl. Family and friends gather for Houston goodbye 2012-02-18T11:50:15Z Just as the Bolsheviks destroyed the Mensheviks in order to eliminate political competition and Red Guard factions fought to the death against one another, the Catholics and the Baptists are being targeted and eliminated. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z His father, a Baptist minister, encouraged his sons to start a gospel ensemble. Bobby Womack, charismatic soul singer, dies at 70 She began playing the organ in Mount Olive Baptist Church in Detroit at 9, and made her first album appearance in 1963 on “Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime.” Alice Coltrane’s Ashram Recordings Finally Have a Wide Release 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Franklin, was a minister at the New Bethel Baptist Church for more than 30 years and Franklin honed her singing skills in the church choir. Stevie Wonder heads star line-up for Aretha Franklin funeral 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The people that I was traveling with are very devout Christians, but it isn't as though I was traveling with people who adhere to a form of a Jimmy Swaggart Baptist faith. Everyone's baking bread at home now, and America's wheat doesn't harvest itself 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z His father, General Dixon Watson, was a farmer and day laborer who led the singing at the local Baptist church. Doc Watson, Folk Musician, Dies at 89 2012-05-30T00:33:31Z The neighborhood surrounding the National Baptist Hotel had been a glorious one in the years before integration. The soul songs that saved me: Sexuality, the South, sadness, meet Al Green and Aretha 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z For example, in 1835, the British Baptist Mission in Calcutta, India, appealed to the ABS for help in funding a translation of the New Testament into the Bengali language. How the American Bible Society became evangelical 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z “We never saw ourselves in the same category as any of the white Anglo Southern Baptists,” he said. US Jews talk identity, Holocaust after Goldberg’s remarks 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z He approaches a group of men loitering outside a Baptist church, spitting into cans, and he asks: “Pardon me, goys, is that the Chattanooga Jews’ chew?” Style Invitational Week 1379: You wish: a pun — a star 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z It is part of the New Morning Light Missionary Baptist Church in Conley, Ga. She is survived by her husband, Robert Hodo, who is the church's pastor. Andre 3000's mother dies 1 day after his birthday 2013-05-29T17:33:09Z With her blond curls and light complexion, she stood out in the African American community, and she started to make a mark singing in the choir of St. Paul Baptist Church. Blues/R&B singer Etta James dead at 73 2012-01-21T06:00:00Z Or by the fact that Huested is a Christian, and some of his employees are Baptists. “Where are your Bibles?”: Jesus, Kentucky and the best lattes in the South 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Marshall, who owns a growing Ford dealership, is also a Baptist minister, a kind and scholarly man who loves his son. Review: In ‘Boy Erased,’ a Young Man Struggles With Faith and Sexuality 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The owner of the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark said Tuesday that Houston's funeral would be held at noon Saturday at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark. Whitney Houston funeral set for Saturday 2012-02-14T15:20:00Z As a child, Whitney sang gospel with the New Hope Baptist Choir. Production of a Lifetime: Whitney Houston and Clive Davis 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z The 19th-century red-brick building, with Greek Doric columns flanking the entrance, was once the home of Richmond’s first African-American Baptist church. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s like he’s reawakened his inner Baptist and drawn on the protest movements of his youth. Al Gore is near the end of his quest to save the Earth. Nina Barrett just got started. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “My mother is very devout,” said Mr. Adams, 30, a Washington resident who has published an atheist children’s book, “Aching and Praying,” but who in high school considered becoming a Baptist preacher. African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z And in the meantime, survivors of sex abuse within the Baptist church continue to wait for some kind of systemic reform. Southern Baptists and #MeToo: Advocates for church sex abuse victims push for reform 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z All of which bodes well for this Jazz Vespers service at Abyssinian Baptist Church. Jazz Listings for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The piece, based on the liturgy used in many African-American Baptist churches, draws on diverse influences. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Marks 25 Years 2013-10-22T14:20:55Z All rather understandable anger — and an infinitesimal fraction of the hate that Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, showed the word, even on his tamest of days. Bye, Fred Phelps! Thanks for everything! 2014-03-21T14:35:00Z The movie documents Franklin’s recording of the live album “Amazing Grace,” at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, in Los Angeles, over two nights in January, 1972. “Amazing Grace” Gives Us Aretha Franklin at the Spellbinding Height of Her Powers 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Gene Corbin, a Baptist minister and the assistant dean of Harvard’s College for Public Service, officiated. Abigail Phillip, Marcus Richardson 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z A spokeswoman at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem says Watson remained in critical condition Saturday. NC musician Doc Watson still in critical condition 2012-05-26T16:29:13Z “It was a sad time,” said the Rev. Bryant Wright, the pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, where Mr. Brown was immersed in baptismal waters in 2006. Alton Brown, Showman of Food TV, Pulls Back the Curtain 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The Rev. Dr. Gilbert G. Campbell Jr., a Baptist minister and father of the groom, is to officiate. Kimberly Harris, Gilbert Campbell III 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z His “Saint John the Baptist II,” a huge canvas of a contemporary Black figure, hangs among much older paintings by European artists at the Nasher Museum in Durham, N.C. Museums Look Locally for Growth and, Sometimes, Survival 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z In Kelly J. Baptist’s inventive and heartfelt debut novel, “Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero,” this dynamic is masterfully depicted. Black Boyhood and Its Superpowers 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z She began singing as a child at Newark's New Hope Baptist Church, where her mother, Grammy Award-winning gospel singer Cissy Houston, led the music program for many years. AP: Whitney Houston's body to be taken home to NJ 2012-02-13T19:57:30Z Probably the hardest speech of my life was back at the First Baptist Church. 2010-02-13T00:22:00Z Funeral Services are held at United Missionary Baptist Church for Chicago Police Officer Clifton Lewis, who died in the line of duty. Person questioned in slaying held on gun charge 2012-01-06T23:05:00Z A congregant at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church said that she attended the events leading up to the opening but has not been back. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The First Baptist Church project exemplifies how Colonial Williamsburg’s storytelling is literally built from the ground up, and rooted in discoveries — and rediscoveries — on site. Building a Better Colonial Williamsburg 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z After the family moved to Detroit, she began singing at New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father was a preacher, and touring with him on his revival shows. Happy Birthday Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul Turns 70 2012-03-24T10:45:46Z I went through a racist, a sexist and a Baptist before I found him. My double life in therapy 2013-01-15T01:00:00Z “It was about Ms. Annie that sang in the choir at Pilgrim Emmanuel Baptist Church, who was 75 years old, and that was the only time she would ever get on anybody’s television show.” ‘Bobby Jones Gospel’ and Its Strongest Voice Prepare to Say Farewell 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z My upbringing in the Missionary Baptist Church is so important here too. Style icon André Leon Talley on navigating the fashion world: “My armor is my self-invention” 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Some refused, but many others — including the newly arrived 26-year-old minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Martin Luther King, Jr. — agreed. The amazing Rosa Parks story too few people still know 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z He will preach it at Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church, where Johnson is thought to be buried, although there are two other reputed gravesites in the area. Salutes mark bluesman Robert Johnson's centennial 2011-05-05T21:22:08Z Montgomery offers plenty of sites to spark such conversations, including the Rosa Parks Museum, the Freedom Rides Museum and the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Like Mr. Jordan, Mr. Kreis was raised a Baptist; he also underwent several years of so-called reparative therapy meant to change him from gay to straight. Leslie Jordan Adds Gaiety to His ?Trip Down the Pink Carpet? 2010-04-24T00:52:00Z The son of a Baptist minister, Freberg ruled the 1950s airwaves with such novelties as "St. George and the Dragonet." 50 years later, Freberg's history lesson still sings 2011-04-26T21:30:00Z She went to quilting clubs, union meetings of retired city workers, funerals, libraries and Sunday services at Baptist churches. Genealogy class sprouts tale of Great Migration 2011-01-14T23:06:00Z His daughter told The Associated Press that Mr. Watson, whose given name is Arthel, had not broken any bones but was suffering from an undisclosed illness at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. ArtsBeat: Doc Watson in Critical Condition After Fall 2012-05-25T12:57:31Z Baptist writes also of religion and the impact of slavery and the southwestern cotton boom on American politics, touching on everything from music to the Nat Turner rebellion. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Stanley recalled more than once that, as a child, he was known in his Primitive Baptist Church community as “the boy with the hundred-year-old voice.” Ralph Stanley’s Inimitable Voice 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Like the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention almost made a leap that would have brought its teachings into line with compassion and the moral demands of the 21 century. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Practically the only difference between the two is that the Baptists are baptized by dunking, whereas the Methodists just get sprinkled. The Ga. towns that Sherman spared in his March to the Sea Her grandfather was a singer and choir leader, and by age 8 she was singing in Danville's Calvary Baptist Church. Camilla Williams, black opera pioneer, dies at 92 2012-01-30T16:54:09Z Robertson went on to decry the lack of action on the part of Houston’s Baptist community, a dominant force in the region. Pat Robertson blames mayor’s lesbian “predilections” for Houston LGBT equality law 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He heard from one niece — married to a Baptist minister — who said that he was going to hell. Wilson High Principal Pete Cahall: ‘It’s time to come out’ as gay Baptist argued the same point in “The Half Has Never Been Told.” A New Book Speaks Plainly About the Large Role White Women Played in Perpetuating Slavery 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z How did black Baptists’ missionary efforts fare in Africa? Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z When a family identified with an “ethnically homogenous religion,” such as Baptists, Davenport’s study shows, children of interracial parents were more likely to identify themselves with only one racial category, instead of as multiracial. Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Boy Erased tells the true story of Garrard Conley, the son of a Baptist minister in the American south, who at his parents’ insistence was sent to residential “gay conversion” therapy after coming out. Nicole Kidman: ‘To hear women being believed makes me cry’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z This week, the Baptist pastor Michel Faulkner talked abut his opposition to gay marriage. Larry Wilmore Attempts to Be Seriously Funny 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z But give the ladies credit — they are way, way ahead of the notoriously grotesque Westboro Baptist Church. One Million Moms overreaches again 2012-07-25T17:05:00Z The Detroit neighborhood of Greektown, with its Romanesque architecture, is home to the Second Baptist Church, which dates to 1836 and is one of the oldest black churches in the Midwest. Exploring Detroit’s Underground Railroad Sites 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z She felt strangled by the strictures of her Southern Baptist upbringing, with her own three baptisms failing to take and a community that treated her like a “satanic witch.” The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z And on Tuesday at 1 p.m., a black history month tour in Harlem will include stops at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Apollo Theater and sites associated with W.E.B. Spare Times for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-14T00:06:20Z The nation's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, grants extensive autonomy to its affiliated churches, leaving decisions on canceling public services up to local pastors. Across faiths, religious rules bent as virus alters worship 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, where he was hospitalized recently after falling at his home in Deep Gap, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89 2012-05-30T00:37:08Z On the surface, creating our own database of Southern Baptist offenders seems like a good idea. Southern Baptists and #MeToo: Advocates for church sex abuse victims push for reform 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z After handing out umbrellas as sun protection, Matthew led us inside the Antioch Baptist Church, where we were not alone. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Set in rural Southern Louisiana, “Burning Cane” was inspired by Youmans’ upbringing in the Baptist church. 19-year-old director wins top award at Tribeca Film Festival 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z But the next day, Palm Sunday, Kennedy spoke briefly from the pulpit of Washington’s New Bethel Baptist Church, in the midst of where the turmoil had taken place. Book excerpt: After MLK death, RFK 'poured his heart out' 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Last week, the 16th Street Baptist Church greeted 30 summer campers from south Alabama; this week, it was a group from Florida. What’s the right reaction when a white stranger walks into a black church? 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z The family hails from Georgia, where Moretz describes a Southern Baptist childhood full of church obligations and Bible verses before bed. Chloë Grace Moretz: 'People said: You're going to lose your career over this' 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z In his work, Mr. Baptist also followed the money. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Dinwiddie’s powerful voice contains the echo of the great Baptist preachers as well as a breathy rumble that approaches the erotic. | 'Get Mad at Sin!': Andrew Dinwiddie as Jimmy Swaggart at the Chocolate Factory 2010-06-01T21:01:00Z To Charles Wilson, the First Baptist Church’s behavior flies in the face of true Christian values. Church denies black couple 2012-07-31T19:52:00Z It was a very conservative Southern Baptist community. A Word With: Robert Wilson and Sheryl Sutton: Robert Wilson’s ‘Zinnias: The Life of Clementine Hunter’ 2013-01-22T23:00:01Z As for his own trajectory, Sitman grew up in a working-class, fundamentalist Baptist family in central Pennsylvania, steeped in “God and guns conservatism,” as he put it in a 2016 essay. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Economic historians have tended to focus on how market forces blunted the worst aspects of slavery, Mr. Naidu said, but Mr. Baptist demonstrates how the drive for profit exacerbated physical punishment and forced migration. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Her debut album, last year’s “At Weddings,” documented in hushed ambient-folk songs her split from the Baptist church of her youth. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Her parents were “self-proclaimed ‘agnostic realists’” who never took Biden or her sisters to church, she writes in her memoir, but she went with both of her grandmothers, one a Baptist and one a Presbyterian. Jill Biden paid a surprise visit to the woman who helped her regain faith in God 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Gossip is the lifeblood of the Baptist Church. My Christian virginity pledge nearly destroyed me 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Seemingly born into greatness, she first started singing at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., as a child. Investigators seek answers to Houston's death 2012-02-12T23:12:20Z Back then, like teenagers at a Baptist retreat, we thought the big, bad world would add up to something, that every confusing twist was laden with hidden meaning. Help! We're trapped by "Lost"! 2010-05-08T23:01:00Z But visit the well-kept grounds of Sherwood Baptist Church here on a Sunday, as the congregation's 3,000 members gather to sing and pray, and you're likely to spot a few. Faith-Based Filmmaking: The Sherwood Pictures Crusade 2011-09-04T14:15:00Z The Appleby Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, Texas, is among this country’s scattered, independent fundamentalist churches still openly promoting the idea that the Biblical Noah pronounced a curse on descendants of his son, Ham. Texas church pushes racist doctrine 2013-04-26T16:51:00Z Jackson was in the habit of visiting with C. L. Franklin, the pastor of New Bethel Baptist, in Detroit. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Christa Brown is a vocal member of the group, an attorney, and is also the creator of the website Stop Baptist Predators. Southern Baptists and #MeToo: Advocates for church sex abuse victims push for reform 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “One is the expansion of American capitalism on the backs of enslaved human beings,” said Mr. Baptist, who grew up in Durham, N.C., the son of a librarian mother and a biochemist father. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The Rev. Sheldon Williams of the Co-Op City Baptist Church officiated in front of 75 guests. Still in Love With Comic Books, and Now With Her, Too 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The sign outside the First Baptist Church in nearby Deadwood read “Jesus likes bikers too” alongside an offer of free coffee. Frugal Traveler: Motorcycles, Memorials and the Middle of Nowhere 2013-08-22T22:38:59Z More personally, he is one of the last of his kind: a son of the ’60s who imagined he’d be a Baptist minister and made a brick-and-mortar building into a flock and a chosen family. Bidding Farewell to His Theatrical Flock 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The Ebenezer Baptist Church across the square, where both King’s father and he were pastors, plays an audio loop of one of King’s speeches, and I sit in a pew, listening. Martin Luther King anniversary: the US Civil Rights Trail 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z The Southern Baptist denomination was formed in 1845 when Baptists split over a question of slaveholders as missionaries. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Multi-faith: Recently my son graduated from a formerly Baptist liberal arts college also deep in the South. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z He began playing jazz even though his father, a Baptist deacon, disapproved of the genre. Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 2010-05-17T15:40:00Z A spokeswoman at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem said Arthel Watson - Arthel is his legal first name - was in critical condition Thursday. NC folk musician Doc Watson critical after fall 2012-05-24T22:54:14Z Mr. Baptist shows the ways that new financial products, like the bundling of bonds that used enslaved people as collateral and were sold to bondholders in this country and abroad, enriched investors worldwide. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z And it extends to the philosophy that infuses the show, created by Gene Roddenberry, who was raised a Southern Baptist but came to consider himself a humanist, according to his authorized biography. To Boldly Explore the Jewish Roots of ‘Star Trek’ 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z I think the church was threatened with excommunication from the main Baptist organisation. How the 60s New York arts scene revolutionised dance 2010-10-12T20:31:00Z “I wanted to devour the world,” Jones thinks, after his Baptist grandmother attempts to pray away his “worldliness.” Saeed Jones’s Striking Memoir About Race, Sex, and Self-Invention 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The interview took place at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., where Whitney first wowed a congregation as a girl and where her funeral was held Feb. 18. Whitney Houston's mom says she's proud of her 2012-03-31T08:01:07Z His father was a pastor, and Nate sang in the choir of the New Hope Baptist Church as a child. Nate Dogg obituary 2011-03-16T17:33:19Z On Thursday, he was transferred to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem for surgery, the Folklore employee said. Folk artist Doc Watson's responsive after surgery: agent 2012-05-25T22:38:33Z “I think the divorce had already happened psychologically when Joe came back into her life,” said Robin Crouch, Ms. Jewell’s pastor at First Baptist Church in Charlotte. 36 Years Later, He’s Out of the Friend Zone 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z For the first 20 minutes, it's about a drunk man flying a passenger plane upside down into a field of Baptists. Clip joint: plane disasters 2013-01-31T12:58:00Z A photo of Gilbert himself hangs in the basement archives of the First African Baptist Church on Montgomery Street, which offers a tactile connection to history. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Sandy Griesemer attended Crom’s workshop on container gardening this year after expanding the garden between her house and Landover Hills Baptist Church, where her husband is a pastor, to help supply its food pantry. Capital Area Food Bank demonstration garden’s aim: to grow more gardens The first was that "it would be impossible to assure that all convicted sexual predators who ever had a connection with a Baptist church would be discoverable for inclusion on such a list." Southern Baptists and #MeToo: Advocates for church sex abuse victims push for reform 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Our eyes were immediately drawn across the street to the stuccoed brick Freemason Street Baptist Church, designed by Thomas U. Walter in the Gothic Revival style and built in 1848. Take an architectural walking tour of Norfolk 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Howard said she was a shy teenager, too shy to sing in the choir of the Baptist church she attended with her father’s family. Alabama Shakes? Unvarnished Soul on Shiny New Album 2012-04-06T21:51:01Z Dec. 9, Seattle First Baptist Church; 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Top picks for Seattle-area holiday classical concerts 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The choir from King's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta will sing. Thousands gather to dedicate King Memorial 2011-10-16T12:33:00Z LifeWay Christian Resources, the publishing division of the Southern Baptist Convention which has published her books in the past, also confirmed the break with Moore. Evangelicals lost a major female leader over Trump supporter hypocrisy – will other women follow? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Two others comprised bits of charcoal freighted with heavy but invisible back stories — each used the burned remains of a Baptist church in the American South. Atop the Met, a Haunting House 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z On July 2, about a month after speaking on The Ken Coleman Show, Cathy spoke with The Biblical Recorder, which is a Baptist publication. New transgender discrimination lawsuit marks decade of anti-LGBTQ controversies for Chick-fil-A 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z As recently as this year, Southern Baptist leaders were publicly calling for the integration of churches. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Like the other day I said, `My mom's wine store would probably do way better in our Baptist town if it had a back door.' Pistol Annies believe it's time to 'Annie Up' 2013-05-09T17:17:08Z While the people of rural Ohio and the people of Baptist Town occupy vastly separate worlds, Eich captures the visual echoes between their lives on the country’s economic fringes: dilapidated houses, boarded-up stores, worn-down bodies. “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z She was a militant suffragette who had spent several spells in prison, including once for assaulting a Baptist minister she had mistaken for prime minister David Lloyd-George. All things connected to England's most northerly county celebrated at the Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering 2013-04-04T16:05:33Z Like many Christian youths there, Mr. Pham spent long summer stretches at church camps, including an annual Vietnamese Baptist gathering, often held in New Orleans. United Tastes: Vietnamese Immigrants Carry On a Cajun Food Tradition 2010-04-28T04:13:00Z She was, at different times, Baptist, Christian Scientist and Buddhist, picking and mixing from the world's religions and philosophies as she went through life. Family life: My religious grandfather, the Beatles and Gran's Hungarian pancakes 2013-07-06T06:30:10Z The holes were inspired by some he saw in the floor of the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Ga., drilled in the 19th century as air holes for hidden fugitive slaves. Philadelphia Offers a Full-Fledged Summer of African Art 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Before he could read, he was quoting the Bible, gaining a reputation as something of a local attraction among the Baptist preachers who visited the Black Southern hub of Atlanta to spread the word. How Atlanta History Shaped Lil Baby and Generations of Rappers 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Instead, Manigault, 41, deferred to her new spiritual role as the assistant pastor of Weller Street Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Has Donald Trump lost even the ‘Apprentice’ vote? 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The film was shot by Sydney Pollack in early 1972, as Ms. Franklin recorded her album at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church near Los Angeles. ‘Sherpa’ and ‘Winter on Fire’ Display Good Timing at Telluride Film Festival 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z And now, the legacy of his actions is ultimately somehow even worse than the Westboro Baptist Church picket your funeral. Who will go to Fred Phelps’ funeral? 2014-03-17T14:12:00Z |
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