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| | Cornel West |
 | | West’s writing, speaking, and teaching weaves together the American traditions of the Baptist Church, transcendentalism, socialism, and pragmatism. | | | From 1988 to 1993 West was Professor of religion and director of the Program in African-American Studies at Princeton. | | | In 2002 West returned to Princeton University as the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion and African American Studies (read articles at blackvoices.com, thecrimson.com, and hear West's own account). |
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http://www.pragmatism.org/library/west
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| | Search Results for betty grable - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | American Episcopal priest who was at the forefront of the movement that led the church to permit the ordination of women. | | | American feminist best known for her book The Feminine Mystique (1963), which explored the causes of the frustrations of modern women in traditional roles. | | | American educator and civil rights activist, who is perhaps best known as the wife of slain black nationalist leader Malcolm X. Zane, Betty |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=betty+grable
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| | American Baptists Concerned Home Page |
| | In 1991, members of American Baptists Concerned and representatives of some fifty churches met in Charleston, West Virginia, to begin formation of a network of Baptist congregations inclusive of sexual minorities. | | | American Baptists Concerned for Sexual Minorities is a ministry of individuals and groups advocating the affirmation and inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people within the life of the American Baptist Churches in the USA. | | | American Baptists Concerned was founded as a voice for justice on behalf of sexual minority American Baptists in 1972. |
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http://www.rainbowbaptists.org/ambaptists.htm
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| | Bio Bishop C.E. Blake |
| | Because he is a man with a God-given mission for ministering to the whole man; sprit, mind, and body, West Angeles Church of God In Christ, the largest African American church in the western United States, has set a new standard for ministry to the Christian and to the world. | | | West Angeles offers more than 80 specialized ministries, programs, and support groups to assist and empower the community. | | | As pastor of West Angeles Church for 30 years, Bishop Blake; recipient of the Salvation Army’s William Booth Award, the Greenlining Institutes’ Big Heart Award, and the Los Angeles Urban League’s Whitney M. Young, Jr. |
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http://www.southerncal-cogic.org/ceblake.htm
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| | A Conservative Resurgence Among American Baptists? |
| | A spokesmen for American Baptist Evangelicals indicated that 64 West Virginia ABCUSA churches would leave the denomination if the issue is not settled by this June. | | | Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 2:56 am ET A report published in The Christian Century indicates that liberals fear the rise of a conservative movement within the American Baptist Churches in the USA [ABCUSA]. | | | In 1991, the denomination adopted a statement declaring that "the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching." Nevertheless, some ABCUSA churches have acted in defiance of the statement, affirming homosexuality and affiliating with the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists [AWAB]. |
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http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=131
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| | The Christian Century |
| | Some American Baptists apparently felt that tensions were eased when four gay-friendly congregations in the San Francisco Bay area were expelled by their region, the ABC of the West, in 1999. | | | American Baptist officials reported having 5,436 churches in 2003, slightly fewer than the number in the United Church of Christ. | | | Medley declined to be interviewed due to a heavy schedule at American Baptist headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. |
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http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=334
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| | Los Angeles - encyclopedia article about Los Angeles. |
| | The Los Angeles Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is their second-largest temple and is located in West Los Angeles. | | | Los Angeles is also home to the largest populations of Japanese and Persians living in the U.S., and has one of the largest Native American populations in the country. | | | The Los Angeles Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Los+Angeles
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| | American Muslims vs. American Jews - article by Daniel Pipes |
| | American Jews are not the only objects of Islamist violence in the West: the same pattern can be seen in Europe and elsewhere. | | | This Islamic-flavored totalitarianism holds that if only Muslims lived in strict accordance with the sacred law of their faith, the shari'a, they would regain the wealth and strength that was theirs at the height of Islam's glory in the Middle Ages. | | | Jews enter the picture, along with British and American "imperialists," as the perceived main obstacle to the fulfillment of this utopian vision. |
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http://www.danielpipes.org/article/308
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| | American Muslims vs. American Jews - article by Daniel Pipes |
| | American Jews are not the only objects of Islamist violence in the West: the same pattern can be seen in Europe and elsewhere. | | | This Islamic-flavored totalitarianism holds that if only Muslims lived in strict accordance with the sacred law of their faith, the shari'a, they would regain the wealth and strength that was theirs at the height of Islam's glory in the Middle Ages. | | | This is offensive to Muslim sensitivities and contributes to the demonization of Muslims. |
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http://www.danielpipes.org/article/308
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| | West Greenway Baptist Church for West Greenway Baptist Church |
| | The vision of West Greenway Baptist Church is to be a church family who practices Deuteronomy 6:49, which teaches what a family ought to be. | | | To view the Statements of Faith of West Greenway Baptist Church, click here. | | | West Greenway Baptist Church is designed to meet your needs, and we are committed to building successful lives and families. |
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http://www.wgfamily.com/baptist/baptist-resources/indexAE.htm
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| | Denomination |
| | The American Baptist Churches of the West is the regional body of ABC/USA covering the 220 ABC churches of northern California and northern Nevada. | | | Other local ABCW institutions include: the American Baptist Seminary of the West (Berkeley), the American Baptist Homes of the West (17 retirement communities), the Center for Ministry (a ministry vocational counseling center in Oakland), plus Redwood Glen and Sierra Pines conference centers. | | | The American Baptist symbol is an adaptation of the Cross and Orb, expressing that Jesus is also in the world, reconciling people of all nations to God through Jesus' work on the Cross. |
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http://www.newlifebayarea.org/denomination.htm
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| | E.V. HILL, CONFIDANT OF MARTIN LUTHER KING AND LONG TIME PASTOR IN LOS ANGELES, HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 69 |
| | Stammer said Bishop Charles E. Blake, pastor of West Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles and a leader in another predominantly African American denomination, the Church of God in Christ, called Hill "one of the most significant personalities in the clergy over the past 30 or 40 years." | | | LOS ANGELES, CA The Rev. E.V. Hill, an extraordinary preacher who went from poverty in Texas to become a confidant of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and a respected leader among America’s African-American Christian community, died late on Monday night (February 24) at the age of 69. | | | Stammer said that his son, the Rev. E.V. Hill II, pastor of Calvary Temple Pentecostal Holiness Church in North Hollywood, stated that his father had to preach sitting down because of a condition that weakened his legs. |
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http://www.assistnews.net/ansarticle.asp?URL=Stories/s03020131.htm
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| | Decline of Christianity = Death of the West - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Although the America of the 1950s was the leader of the West during the golden age of self-consciousness about Western civilization, the classical tradition was by that time almost wholly invisible in American life. | | | American political leaders frequently said that the United States was the heir to Western civilization and that it had a duty to defend the West against its enemies, most obviously the Communist bloc led by the Soviet Union. | | | American academic leaders regarded the Western tradition with respect, and courses on Western civilization were often required in American universities. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1380865
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| | THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AND THE BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE |
| | McBain, former president of the American Baptist Convention and president of the American Baptist Seminary of the West, argued that Jesus Christ is not referred to as God in the Scriptures (F.E.A. News and Views, Fundamental Evangelistic Association, Nov-Dec. 1976). | | | The schools and pulpits of the American Baptist Convention are filled with men who deny the infallible inspiration of Holy Scripture and who question or deny Christ's virgin birth, Godhead, vicarious atonement, and resurrection from the dead. | | | The American Baptist-supported Buttrick said the Christian faith is merely a grand PERHAPS. |
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http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/sbcreaffirms.htm
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| | www.asinah.net Start |
| | American Buddhist Seminary 423 Glide Ave., West Sacramento, CA 95691. |
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http://united-states.asinah.net/american-encyclopedia/wikipedia/a/am/america...
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| | CAIR: Writer Smears American Muslims |
| | In his not-too-subtle smear of the American Muslim community, ("It Matters What Kind of Islam Prevails," 7/22/99) Daniel Pipes once again tries to paint Islam as a threat to America. | | | Pipes would probably support a Christian or Jewish leader who suggested religious faith would benefit our society or who called the United States "God's country." Change "God" to "Allah" and this admirable sentiment is portrayed as a threat to the "West's norms." Throw in an "Allahu Akbar" and you have a sure-fire xenophobic hit. | | | He claims American Muslims would turn this country into another Iran or Sudan and twists the words of a respected scholar like the late Ismail Al-Faruqi who is not around to defend himself. |
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http://www.zmag.org/Bulletins/ppipes.htm
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| | American Muslims - AskTheBrain.com |
| | Though there are a number of Americans who had not paid any serious attention to Islam or Muslims until the Arab oil embargo of 1973 or the Iranian Revolution of 1979, propaganda against Islam and Muslims is nothing new in the West. | | | American Muslims are actively engaged in the effort to identify which elements of Islam are essential, mandated by Quran and Sunna (the way of life exemplified by the Prophet Muhammad), and which are cultural rather than religious. | | | Muslims, Croats and North Americans pound their swords into shingles to protect a Catholic church, while Serbs drive truckloads of supplies to Croatian homes they had destroyed. |
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http://www.askthebrain.com/american_muslim-.html
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - New Men: Inside the Vatican's Elite School for American Priests - Brian Murphy - Paperback - 1ST RIVERH |
| | A look inside the Catholic Church's West Point for American priests, and a look into the hearts of the men chosen to lead the Church. | | | Murphy, a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist with the Associated Press in Rome, follows the spiritual paths of six seminarians entering the North American College—the New Men of the title—as they unfold over the course of a year. | | | Former Vatican correspondent Brian Murphy chronicles a year in the lives of six American seminarians, six "New Men," as they enter the Vatican's "West Point for priests" - the North American College in Rome- and struggle to leave a world in which they were great successes, for a life of service, celibacy, and self-denial. |
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http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?btob=Y&isbn=1573226998&itm=7
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| | Neoconservatives push internment for American Muslims |
| | James Smalls, international director of the Organization of African American Unity. | | | Pipes used his column to review In Defense of Internment: Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror, a book by West Coast neoconservative author Michelle Malkin, which she says is a challenge to the revisionist view of the ethnic Japanese internment in 1942. | | | The survey said 42 percent of highly religious respondents believe that Muslim Americans should register their whereabouts with the federal government. |
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http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1818.shtml
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| | AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES IN THE USA |
| | 1996-JAN The American Baptist Churches of the West conditionally disfellowshipped the New Community of Faith of San Franciso CA; the Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church of Oakland, CA; the First Baptist Church of Berkeley, CA and the San Leandro Community Church of San Leandro, CA. | | | 1994-SEP The American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest revokes the ordination of Susan Vanderburgh She is a lesbian. | | | It changed its name in 1950 to the American Baptist Convention, and again in 1973 to its present name, the American Baptist Churches in the USA. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_abc.htm
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| | Star Wars: An American Mythology |
| | The saloon shootouts, of course, come from that other great American mythology, the Western. | | | The Force, the Jedi knights, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan, Princess Leia, Yoda, lightsabers, and the Death Star hold a place in the collective imagination of countless Americans that can only be described as mythic. | | | Like the stories of Arthurian Logres, or of the classical Greco-Roman gods and heroes, the lore of the Old West is the accumulation of innumerable stories told and retold innumerable times and in innumerable ways by innumerable voices. |
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http://decentfilms.com/sections/articles/2535
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| | The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles |
| | The Crenshaw District institution with a new $60 million cathedral that makes it one of the largest African American churches in the western United States will play host to a joint Chanukah service that will be led by the cathedrals Bishop Charles Blake and Rabbi David Baron of Temple Shalom for the Arts. | | | The final day of Chanukah celebration will include performances by the West Angeles Church of God in Christ Gospel Choir and the Beverly Hills High School choral group, led by Joel Pressman. | | | The idea of bringing both communities together is not new for Baron, who started organizing such cultural crossovers 20 years ago, when he and then-Cantor Judy Fox joined H.B. Barnum, composer of "Your Arms Too Short to Box With God," for a program at Westwoods Wadsworth Theatre. |
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http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=9697
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| | PBS - THE WEST - John Doyle Lee |
| | Having been persecuted from their religion's birthplace in New York to Missouri and Illinois, the Mormons had by 1846 decided to seek their own Zion in the American West. | | | Lee's religious passion quickly became the driving force in his life, prompting him to move in 1838 to a homestead near the Mormon town of Far West, Missouri. | | | Even in the far West, however, neither Lee nor his co-religionists were beyond the reach of the country whose persecution they had fled. |
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http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/lee.htm
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| | American Baptist Churches of the West |
| | He left Church of the Foothills to go on the staff of American Baptist Churches of the West where he served eight years as an Area Minister/Consultant in both South Coastal Area and Sacramento River where he played a major role in the restructuring of the Region toward Growing Healthy Churches. | | | He graduated from Lavern University with a BA and from American Baptist Seminary of the West in Covina, CA with his MA. | | | Richard served three American Baptist churches as pastor. |
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| | Muslim American Society |
| | By the eve of the Civil War, the old Islam of the West African Muslim slaves was for all practical purposes defunct, because these Muslims were not able to develop community institutions to perpetuate their religion. | | | But this multi-racial model, which also developed among Sunni Muslims in the mid-western United States, does not suggest a race and color-blind community experience, as immigrant Muslims were noted for their ethnic, racial, and linguistic separation from African-American Muslims during this period. | | | The First Mosque of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was established in 1945 by African-American Muslims who wished to spread the teachings of Islam; build mosques; establish the Jumu'a prayer in their community; aid its members in case of death or illness; and unite with the Muslim communities in the United States. |
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http://www.masnet.org/history.asp?id=1572
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| | African American Jubilee Bible |
| | In addition to their reflections on the African-American experience from Africa to the United States and the West Indies and South American, articles accompanying the Bible explain the practice and celebration of the spirit of jubilee in everyday life. | | | For African Americans, the jubliee concept is found in their slave ancestors' love for the Bible, which drew them to embrace certain beliefs and kept the spirit of jubilee alive within the community. | | | The publication of the Jubilee Bible represents a significant milestone for American Bible Society, Habecker said. |
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| | Paste Magazine :: Feature :: Michelle Shocked :: The Peace of Her Mind (Page 1) |
| | The West Angeles Cathedral Church of God in Christone of L.A.s largest African-American congregationsis home to its share of Tinseltown celebrities. | | | If Shocked has any fish-out-of-water feelings toward West Angeles because of her race or her politics, theyre certainly not evident this morning; when Bishop Blake asks if he can get a witness in here, she stands on her tiptoes like a school girl at a Maroon 5 show. | | | These days youll find her in the West Angeles choir loft: I went one too many Sundays. |
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http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=1845
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| | It is an expression of identity characterizing the evolution of a Muslim community from the ideology and structure of the Nation (or Temples) of Islam (1930-1975) through a 23 year process of religious reorientation and organizational decentralization that included other designations, i.e., World Community of Islam in the West (1976-1981) and American Muslim Mission (1981-1985). | | | The continuing priority for the American Society Of Muslims and its leadership is the establishment of Islamic community life and the presentation of the true image of Islam. | | | The term American Society Of Muslims (2002) is a public designation for the association of Muslims identifying with the leadership of the Honorable Wallace D. Mohammed. |
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http://www.ar-razzaq.org/MosqueCares/asm.htm
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