Members of the Kenwood Country Club in Bethesda, Md., still may be talking about a sight that greeted them one recent Saturday morning. A smartly attired single woman advertised her marital intentions with a button that read like a campaign slogan: “Say I Do in 92.” The occasion was a five-part seminar taught by author Blaine Smith, “The Marriage Decision: A Seminar in Choosing a Marriage Partner – and Finding One.” 

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Several persons who attend the Grace International Church expressed almost a sense of relief at finally finding a community that accepts them. But Grace International goes further. Its congregation seems to appreciate each other’s differences. Each Sunday proves to be a cultural stretch. 

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Theologian Carl F.H. Henry called this week on Southern Baptists to denounce “tyrannical oppressors” who routinely persecute others in the name of religion. Henry condemned all kinds of religious persecution. But he aimed his strongest words at Muslims in Saudi Arabia. 

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Starbuck and McMahon are among those participating in a class at the McLean Bible Church, in which they’re learning to accept love instead of the rejection, guilt and frustration associated with real or imagined failures. 

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Brenda Hunter knows the pain that comes from a mother’s inability to nurture her child. She said that it happened to her, and she knows it leaves people unable to enter into intimate relationships. She also knows that the pain does not have to last always. There can be spiritual healing. 

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The Super Bowl-bound Joe Gibbs is as much an action-oriented Christian as he is an action-oriented coach. When Washington sportscaster Glenn Brenner’s brain tumor took a turn for the worse, Gibbs went to his hospital bedside with the game ball from the playoff victory over the Atlanta Falcons.

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David Dunithan tested HIV positive and plunged into despair in 1988. “I wasn’t that young, but I wasn’t that old. And my life was going down the tubes. I felt alone and buried by problems. Suicide would have been no problem for me at that time,” he recalled recently.

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