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On December 21, 2007, KENNETH A. IMES. Friends may visit at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Friday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends on Saturday at United Church of Jesus Christ, 934 Gorsuch Avenue at 11:30 A.M., followed by funeral service at 12 noon.

Thomas Appiah and his wife, Katrina, have no problem with all the curious new questions about their Mormon faith. The couple recalled attending a recent event at a nondenominational church and entering into a discussion about Jesus. As Thomas Appiah spoke on the Scriptures, people became captivated, and many asked whether he were a pastor and where they could hear him preach. When he told them he was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the crowd turned. "All of a sudden, that desire to befriend me, that desire to embrace me, it all turned to animosity.

ON SUNDAY evening, members of Gethsemane Baptist Church in Glenwood gave the community a beautiful gift. In a room adorned with red and white poinsettias and illuminated by a Christmas tree covered with white lights, a 35-voice choir sang about Christ's birth.The gospel-style music was upbeat and uplifting. Audience members frequently joined in, singing and clapping their hands.The program, titled "Tree of Light," told the story of Christ's birth with narration as well as songs, relating it to modern-day Christmas celebrations.

Dorothy Mae Williams, a lifelong Baltimorean who enjoyed traveling with her church group, died of cancer Dec. 14 at the home of one of her daughters. She was 75.Born Dorothy Baker and known to friends as Dot, Mrs. Williams grew up an only child on Sarah Ann Street, an alley in West Baltimore. Her father, Horace R. Johnson, was a preacher.Educated in the public schools, Mrs. Williams left school at an early age and began raising a family that eventually numbered nine children. Her husband of 39 years, Charles Elmer Williams Sr., died in 1986.

Whatever you think about the religion he started, Joseph Smith's life is one of the most extraordinary in U.S. history.Largely self-educated, Smith turned a vision he insisted came directly from God into a whole new take on Christianity, one that said the Gospels were sometimes mistaken, proclaimed that a lost tribe of Israel had long ago made its way to the North American continent, and preached -- at least initially -- the advantages of plural marriage.For...

NEW YORK -- The photographer is not scheduled to arrive for another four hours, so we have no way of recording the look on Joseph Fiennes' face as he contemplates his Internet Web site for the first time.Cobbled together by rabid fans, the adoring page is headed "The Joy of Joseph Fiennes." As the actor flips though the printout, his eyes register that inseparable blend of amusement, flattery and heebie-jeebies one experiences when one realizes a complete stranger has been amassing every last detail of one's life.

State's program of student service lasts a lifetimeBrian Sullam, in his Feb. 15 column, is absolutely correct that meaningful service learning projects can instill in students a lifelong habit of citizenship and civic involvement ("Community service plan needs reform, not relief").Make-work activities that fulfill the state's requirement but make little or no impact on the community do a grave disservice to students, because they fail to show them the joy that comes from participating in public life.

Following are excerpts from what Newsweek magazine described as tapes of conversations between Monica Lewinsky and Linda R. Tripp, recorded by Tripp without Lewinsky's knowledge:Tripp: Look, Monica, we already know you're going to lie under oath. We also know that I want out of this big time. If I have to testify, it's going to be the opposite of what you say.Lewinsky: Well, it doesn't have to be a conflict.Tripp: What do you mean? How? Tell me how? [What am I] supposed to say if they say, "Has Monica Lewinsky ever said to you that she is in love with the president or is having a physical relationship with the president?"

Jesus Hi-Way Man" is on the road again in his Chevy 1500, homemade trailer in tow, the whole rig plastered with Bible verses, evangelical aphorisms and admonitions to repent."We have to work because the night is coming," warns Jesus Hi-Way Man, whose off-road identity is the evangelist Allen Fulwood, an elder in the Love of God Apostolic Faith Church, where founder and pastor Bishop Chapell Petersen ordained him as a preacher."God's Word on the Hi-Way" is delivered in black letters on neat white plaques like the nameplates of home improvement contractors."

'TWAS THE morning after Thanksgiving, and the brisk wind blowing across Baltimore Polytechnic Institute's parking lot made what might have been a mildly comfortable morning slightly chilly.Some of the students jammed their hands into their jacket pockets. Others sat on a curb. Some of the wiser ones stretched their limbs, preparing for the hike that would start in a half-hour. Bottles of water stood on the registration table. The chilly students would need them after making the nearly four-mile trek along Cold Spring Lane to Morgan State University's engineering building.

On October 6, 2009, CHERYL FENNER. Visitation at THE DERRICK C. JONES FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 4611 Park Hgts. Ave. on Friday, October 16, 2-7 p.m. On Saturday, October 17 at New Beginning Ministries Church of Jesus Christ, 739 N. Lakewood Ave. 10 a.m. wake, 11 a.m. funeral.

On October 1, 2009, CHERYL YVETTE MORRIS. On Thursday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 4 to 8 P.M. On Friday, Ms. Morris will lie in state at The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, 4100 St. Johns Lane, Ellicott City, MD, where the family will receive friends from 11 to 11:30 A.M with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

On September 24, 2009, NORMA LEE YOUNG. Survived by a host of family and friends. The family will receive friends on Thursday, October 1, from 3 to 7 P.M., at the Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue. Wake Friday, October 2, 10 A.M., New Galilee Church of Jesus Christ, 3016 Oakley Avenue with Funeral Service to follow at 10:30 A.M. Interment King Memorial Park Cemetery.

On May 8, 2009, ISABELLE C. HOPSON. Friends may visit the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 a.m., where the family will receive friends from 5 p.m. to 7p.m. The family will also receive friends on Friday at the First Apostolic Faith Church of Jesus Christ, 27 South Caroline Street at 11 a.m. with funeral to follow at 11:30 a.m.

On December 18, 2008, Randolph O. Gregory, Sr On Monday friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 8728 Liberty Road from 5 to 8 P.M. On Friday, Mr. Gregory will lie instate at Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, 5150 Baltimore Nat'l Pike, where the family will receive friends from 10 - 10:30 A.M. with service to follow. Inquiries to 410-655-0015.

On November 4, 2008, YVONNE CAROL; devoted wife of William Alston. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Wednesday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends at New Antioch Holiness Church of Jesus Christ, 823 W. Lanvale Street on Thursday at 10 A.M. Funeral services will follow at 10:30.

On October 30, 2008, CALVIN, beloved son of Annie Jones and devoted brother of Cleven, Marvin, Bonnita and Sharon. He is also survived by sons, Calvin and Shannon, daughter Sharnia, five grandchildren, a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives. Funeral services today at Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, 5150 Baltimore National Pike. The family will receive friends 11 to 11:30 a.m. Funeral 11:30 a.m. Arrangements by JAMES A. MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOMES, INC.

At the risk of heresy, let it be said that setting up the two presidential candidates for religious interrogation by an evangelical minister - no matter how beloved - is supremely wrong. It is also un-American. For the past week, since mega-pastor Rick Warren interviewed Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain at his Saddleback Church, most political debate has focused on who won. Was it the nuanced, thoughtful Mr. Obama, who may have convinced a few more skeptics that he isn't a Muslim?

DENVER - A Texas judge allowed parents yesterday to begin retrieving more than 400 children taken by the state during a raid on a polygamist sect's compound in April. District Judge Barbara Walther issued the order after the state Supreme Court ruling last week that found Texas authorities had overreached when they moved the children into protective custody. On Friday, Walther refused to sign an agreement between the state and lawyers for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that would have provided for the children's release.

On May 17, 2008, JOHNNIE ANGELO; beloved husband of Barbara Jones. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Tuesday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends on Wednesday at the Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, 5150 Baltimore National Pike, at 10:30 A.M. followed by funeral service at 11:00 A.M.