Two ministers one Methodist, one Baptist, delivered eulogies.
Back in the 1934, Martin Luther King Sr. was one of 10 Baptist ministers who traveled first to the Holy Land and then to Germany.
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McCain bested Huckabee, a one-time Baptist minister, among New Hampshire voters who said a candidate's religious beliefs matter a great deal, according to CNN exit polls.
The report has been ammunition for Tim Costello, a prominent Baptist minister and one of Mr Kennett's harshest critics.
Redemption Fellowship of Fall River is one of dozens of churches the Southern Baptist Convention has planted around New England in the last decade with a multi-million dollar push into territory skeptical of the South and increasingly indifferent to religion.
Fair enough, but then Baptist Health went further, telling one of its gynecological surgeons that she was no longer welcome to work there because her husband, a neurosurgeon, had invested in one of the surgical hospitals.
And if he fails, Mr Thompson is still waiting to pounce, as are Senator John McCain and Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and impeccably pro-life Baptist minister who mixes appealingly corny one-liners with worryingly populist views on economics.
This has raised some concerns among scholars because it seems to be targeting one specific group, and that's the Westboro Baptist Church.
Under his leadership, the church has become the fastest-growing one in America. (Saddleback is a Southern Baptist evangelical church, by the way.) Weekends bring in an average of 15, 000 worshippers.
At that time, more than one-fifth of Arkansas voters were members of the Southern Baptist church.
And it was as head of the state Baptist convention that Huckabee decided to take on Bumpers, one of Arkansas' most popular politicians.
" One audience member described it "more like Sunday morning at a Southern Baptist church than anything you'd find at a tech conference.
One of the most obvious among them is the deeply religious, mostly Southern Baptist, elements that provided the moral foundation of the U.S. movement.
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He notes that one candidate at last night's Republican presidential debate compared the event to a Baptist Tent Revival meeting - a reference to how strongly the GOP hopefuls tried to embrace the kinds of issues that Falwell held dear.
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