21.   Arsonists torch black churches and synagogues throughout the South.

22.   As Election Day nears, Democrats typically appear in black churches, while conservative causes are promoted in fundamentalist and Roman Catholic churches.

23.   As Christianity approaches the millennium, the black church has raised its profile.

24.   As director of the CDC, Satcher framed handgun violence as a public health issue and pressed black churches and medical schools to confront AIDS.

25.   As I would explain later to the rabbi, he was not viewing just any conventional black church.

26.   As is frequently the case for Democratic office-seekers, the pulpits of black churches will be regular stops for Gore and his surrogates.

27.   Arson fires at three dozen black churches is the handiwork of idle minds and twisted hearts.

28.   As president, he told parishioners of a black church in Memphis that the high homicide rate among blacks would shame the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

29.   At the center of the effort to awaken black interest in the issue are the black churches.

30.   At the core of segregated black life, black churches once were sanctuaries that doubled as underground schools when the act of reading was punishable.