UNC has been very successful at college basketball and women ’ s soccer, and a passion for these sports has been a distinctive feature of the town's culture, fueled by the rivalry among North Carolina's four ACC teams: the North Carolina Tar Heels, the Duke Blue Devils, the NC State Wolfpack, and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.

Carmichael speaks about the Deacons when he writes, “ Here is a group which realized that the ‘ law ’ and law enforcement agencies would not protect people, so they had to do it themselves ... The Deacons and all other blacks who resort to self-defense represent a simple answer to a simple question: what man would not defend his family and home from attack ?” The Deacons, according to Carmichael and many others were the protection that the Civil Rights needed on local levels, as well as, the ones who intervened in places that the state and federal government fell short.

This was the first time in the 20th century, as Lance Hill observes, “ an armed black organization had successfully used weapons to defend a lawful protest against an attack by law enforcement .” Hill gives as another example: “ In Jonesboro, the Deacons made history when they compelled Louisiana governor John McKeithen to intervene in the city ’ s civil rights crisis and require a compromise with city leaders — the first capitulation to the civil rights movement by a Deep South governor .”

Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God ’ s law to marry to abstain from marriage, therefore they are permitted to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

* Deacons were to serve as " Stewards and keepers of the King ’ s prisons, and Stewards of the King ’ s Courts.

The Deacons were instrumental in many campaigns led by the Civil Rights Movement.

The North and South Doors are often called Deacons ' Doors because the deacons use them frequently.

However, according to Lance Hill, author of The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement: “ the hard truth is that these organizations produced few victories in their local projects in the Deep South — if success is measured by the ability to force changes in local government policy and create self-governing and sustainable local organizations that could survive when the national organizations departed ....

Wilson made up his mind that he must receive at least $2,500, but when he mentioned this to the Deacons they said nothing.

Deacons, like priests and bishops, are ordinary ministers of the sacrament of Baptism and can serve as the church's witness at the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, which the bride and groom administer to each other ( though if the exchange of vows takes place in a wedding Mass, or Nuptial Mass, the Mass is celebrated by the priest and the deacon acts as another witness ).

Deacons may preside at funeral rites not involving a Mass ( e. g., the final commendation at the gravesite or the reception of the body at a service in the funeral home ), and may assist the priest at the Requiem Mass.

: In every Church completely organized, that is, furnished with all the officers which Christ has instituted and which are necessary for carrying into full effect the laws of his kingdom, there ought to be three classes of officers, viz: at least one Teaching Elder, Bishop, or Pastor — a bench of Ruling Elders — and Deacons.

By January 1965 the group had arrived at is permanent name, ‘ Deacons for Defense and Justice .’” The organization wanted to maintain a level of respectability and identify with traditionally accepted symbols of peace and moral values.

The Deacons had a relationship with other civil rights groups that advocated and practiced non-violence: the willingness of the Deacons to provide low-key armed guards facilitated the ability of groups such as the NAACP and CORE to stay, at least formally, within their own parameters of non-violence.

In the year before Duncan's arrival at Wake Forest, the Demon Deacons reached the Sweet 16, but then lost main scorer Rodney Rogers, who entered the 1993 NBA Draft.

Though he was offered coaching positions at other schools, Grobe chose to remain with the Deacons, citing a desire to remain at an institution that successfully balances high-level academics with a major athletic program.

After an interview with the bishop, Deacons who are deemed worthy are ordained to the office of Teacher at the age of fourteen, whereupon they will become members of the Teachers Quorum.

Deacons, subdeacons and altar servers wear the sticharion at any service at which they are serving.

Had he survived Pope John Paul II, who delivered the homily at his funeral-the last while John Paul was alive -, Cardinal Schotte would, as the senior member of the order of Cardinal Deacons under the age of 80, have made the announcement of the next Pope's election.

He played college soccer at Wake Forest University for the Demon Deacons from 2002 to 2004, where he started all sixty-two games the team played during his tenure, scoring one goal and registering two assists.

A Deacons Quorum is a quorum consisting of up to twelve members of at least twelve years of age, ordained to the office of Deacon.

Deacons Quorums are organized at the ward level and act under the direction of the ward Bishop — who is the Aaronic Priesthood president — who calls a Deacons Quorum President who holds keys to direct the work of the quorum.

The ballpark is located at 401 Deacon Boulevard, directly east of BB & T Field, home of the Wake Forest University " Demon Deacons " football team.

These include Elders, Deacons, Associate Members and licensed local pastors.

Deacons assist Elders in the sacraments of Holy Communion and Baptism, and may be granted sacramental authority if they are appointed as the pastor in a local church.

Yet, there has been a recent debate over the crucial role the Deacons and other lesser known militant organizations played on local levels throughout much of the rural South.

The March Against Fear signified a shift in character and power in the southern civil rights movement and was an event in which the Deacons participated.

Holy orders, a Sacrament by which Bishops, Priests and Deacons are ordained and receive power and authority to perform their sacred duties.

Some CORE main leadership had strong disagreements with the Deacons for Defense and Justice over the Deacons ' public threat to racist Southerners that they would use armed self-defense to protect CORE workers from racist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, in Louisiana during the 1960s.

The history of the Civil Rights Movement focuses little on organizations such as the Deacons for a number of reasons.

Finally, with the shift to Northern Black plight and the idea of Black Power emerging in major cities across America, the Deacons became yesterday's news and organizations such as The Black Panther Party gained notoriety and became the publicized militant Black organization.

However, with the advent of other militant Black Power organizations, and the Black Power Movement becoming the more visible movement towards the latter 1960s, the involvement of the Deacons in the civil rights movement declined ( as did FBI interference with them ), with the presence of the Deacons all but vanishing by 1968.

In contrast to the non-violent strategies and tactics of most other civil rights organizations, the Deacons were committed to armed self-defense.

According to Umoja it was the urging of Stokely Carmichael that the Deacons were to be used as security for the march.

According to Epiphanius of Salamis, also of the 4th century, Nicholas, one of the Seven Deacons of, noticed others being admired for their celibacy.

* Clerical Attire, Vesture, Titles, and Precedence for Deacons, Hierodeacons, Protodeacons and Archdeacons According to the Byzantine Tradition

* The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement, Lance Hill, University of North Carolina Press ( 2004, ISBN 0-8078-2847-5 ).

* The Education of Lance Hill How Lance Hill came to write The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement, by Lance Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Post war development was restricted by the Green Belt, sparing the Scratch Wood and Deacons Hill district apart from the M1 motorway.

Likewise each Deacon in full connection is a member of their Annual Conference Order of Deacons.

Produced by Showtime starring academy-award winner Forest Whitaker, Ossie Davis, and Jonathan Silverman, the film is based on the struggle of the actual Deacons for Defense against the Jim Crow South in a powerful area of Louisiana controlled by the Ku Klux Klan.

Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum is the home venue for the Demon Deacons basketball team.

Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum is the home venue for the Demon Deacons basketball team.

The spiritual leaders of certain Plymouth Brethren assemblies or meetings are termed " Elders " ( though this is never used as a title in any sense, particularly it is never used as a title of address ), and sometimes more practical leaders, called " Deacons ", are identified.

And no man is to be accepted as a lawful Bishop, Priest, or Deacon in this Church, or permitted to execute any functions pertaining to these Orders, except he be called, tried, examined, and admitted thereunto according to the Canons of this Church, and in accordance with the Order prescribed by this Church for making, Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons, or hath had Episcopal Consecration or Ordination.

In the Reformed churches, a Consistory is a congregation's governing body of elected officials that include the Elders and the Deacons, thus making the body similar to the Session in Presbyterian churches.

The president of the Deacons Quorum is given priesthood keys to preside over the members of his quorum.

In modern practice, one of the Deacons ' primary duties is to pass the sacrament to the members of the congregation during sacrament meeting.

An adult advisor is called to the Deacons Quorum.

Although he is an advisor, he often ends up as the de facto leader of the quorum due to the inexperience of the Deacons Quorum presidency.

Those who are found worthy by their bishop ( in an interview ) are ordained in a similar manner as Deacons, except that the Aaronic Priesthood is not conferred upon them again if they have already received it as a Deacon.