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Drake, SBC presidential candidate, calls for God’s wrath against AU
From the Associated Baptist Press:
BUENA PARK, Calif. (ABP) — An early candidate for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention has called on Baptists to pray for misfortune to befall employees of a church-state watchdog group.
Wiley Drake, a pastor, radio crusader and Baptist gadfly, issued an Aug. 14 statement calling for “imprecatory prayer†from his supporters against two communications staffers for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The term “imprecatory prayer†is used to describe prayers, mostly in the Bible’s Old Testament, that the righteous used to call down God’s wrath against their enemies.
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The late Rev. Jerry Falwell left a $34 million life insurance policy to the college and church he founded, ridding the financially troubled Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., of its debt, his son said.
Most of the payment, $29 million, went to Liberty, which Falwell founded in 1971, and the rest was given to Thomas Road Baptist Church, Liberty Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said. His evangelical minister father died in May at age 73.