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On a visit this summer to Marathon, gate-way to Big Bend National Park and home of the historic Gage Hotel, I noticed that, in addition to several art galleries, antiques shops, and bookstores and Shirley's Burnt Biscuit Bakery, it has two Baptist churches--at least one more than a town of almost five hundred would seem to require. High Desert Baptist, an obvious newcomer, occupies a neat storefront on the two-block row of buildings that constitutes the central business district. Its claim to be "Independent, KJV [King James Version]" suggests that it regards Marathon Baptist, established in 1898 and just a couple blocks away, as having drifted from sound doctrine and practice, even to the point of reading Bibles translated more recently than 1611.
Come Sunday, I was torn. I'm interested in people with pretensions to perfection, but I'm also comfortable among backsliders. My dilemma was eased when, five minutes before church time, only the preacher had shown up at High Desert, looking somewhat forlorn as he sat on a bench in front of the rented sanctuary. Having spied out the land on a walk about town earlier that morning I decided...
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