You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.
I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.
You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.
The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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