Christian Encounters: Southwestern students to tour civil rights sites,
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Southwestern students to tour civil rights sites From Jackson, Miss., to Selma, Ala., and onward to Montgomery, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis and Little Rock, a class at Southwestern University is taking ``A Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement.'' The weeklong tour of historic civil rights sites in the South, via a school van, will starts Tuesday and is the highlight of a 31/2-week summer school course being offered for the first time at Southwestern. Students...
AUTHOR CAREFULLY CONFRONTS JEWISH-CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS
The world-famous 13th century stone figures of two women in the European cathedrals of Strasbourg, Freiberg, Bamberg, Magdeburg, and, in Paris, Notre Dame, all convey the same triumphant message: A crowned woman proudly representing the conquering Christian Church stands in glory next to a blindfolded and bowed figure who symbolizes the defeated Synagogue.No words of interpretation are needed when a person views such sculptures. For more than 700 years, these graphic stone images have...
Christian Encounters: Choir hits Billboard's gospel chart
In ''Faith in the House,'' a new album featuring Detroit's own Bishop Andrew Merritt & the Straight Gate Mass Choir, it's only fair to say that fans are getting an ample dose of straight up Straight Gate flavai'.. In just its second week of distribution, album sales topped 22,000 units, based on New York's Sound Scan music industry tracking data. And it has ranked No. 2 and holding on...
Christian Encounters: In Your Congregation
COLONIAL SUNDAY. Zion's Reformed United Church of Christ, 620 Hamilton St., Allentown, will hold Colonial Sunday, a special service that commemorates a significant event in our city and our nation's history, at 10:45 a.m. Sunday. The Rev. Robert Stevens will portray the Rev. Abraham Blumer, pastor at Zion's in 1777 when the Liberty Bell and 10 other bells were hidden under the floorboards of Zion's Church. Stevens will speak about the active...
Christian Encounters: Local radio show host to spread the word worldwide
Faithful listeners of Don Crawford's Sunday evening talk show Christian Encounters will soon be sharing him with 40 million other people from around the world. Crawford, who lives in Wells Branch with his wife Gloria and three children, will be carried regularly on the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service this winter.The KLBJ-AM talk show is unique, said Chaplain Dick Davenport, coordinator of religious programming for Armed Forces Radio and Television Service....