The African American author Imamu Amiri Baraka (born 1934 as Everett LeRoi Jones) became influential during the 1960s as a spokesperson for radical black literature and theater. Born as Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, on October 30, 1934, Bara...

An influential figure among the literary avant-garde of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Amiri Baraka (known as LeRoi Jones until 1968) has been a seminal force in the development of contemporary Afro-Ameri...

An influential figure among the literary avant-garde of Greenwich Village and the lower East Side during the late 1950s and early 1950s, Amiri Baraka (known as LeRoi Jones until 1968) has been a seminal force in the development of contemporary Afro-Ameri...

(Proquest Information and Learning Foreign text omitted...) Baptism. By David P. Scaer. Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics 11. Edited by John R. Stephenson. St. Louis: The Luther Academy, 1999, xiii + 222 pp., n.p. Based on the Lutheran confessions, David P. Scaer's theological work...

Over the recent decades of the ecumenical movement, theologians have developed various concepts of unity. One of the earliest, and certainly the most straightforward, was the concept of organic unity: in each place there should be one fully committed fellowship, which would be united...

The body of a strangled toddler was found inside the baptismal basin of an evangelical church in southern Brazil, officials said Monday.Eighteen-month-old Gabrielli Cristina Eichholz was found dead Saturday during services at the recently inaugurated Seventh-day Adventist Church in the city of Joinville, 250 miles...

Russell Crowe, who is 43, says he's planning to be baptized. "I'd like to do it this year," the Oscar-winning actor tells Men's Journal. "My mom and dad decided to let my brother and me make our own decisions about God when we got to...