Whether it was Rhaenyra telling Alicent that all she wanted to do was fly around the world with her on her dragon, or the two holding hands as Rhaenyra poured her heart out about her relationship with her father, the ladies looked definitely in love. There was no explicit mention of love, but the subtle hints were enough to leave viewers speculating. On more than one occasion, the makers dropped hints that the two ladies could be more than friends, with an undertone of a queer romance brewing between them. Rhaenyra and Alicent: Were the Two Ladies in Love? In the initial episode, the two seemed inseparable, with Alicent acting as Rhaenyra’s only confidant and support as the latter struggled with her mother’s death and the strained relationship with her father. KEARNEY – Poring over microfiche of Kearney’s First Baptist Church business meeting minutes, one finds the November, 1867 membership list.One such relationship, which has been making headlines ever since the show’s inception, is the ‘friendship’ between Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Lady Alicent Hightower. At the top of the page, in the left-hand column in tight, careful script, lies probably the most famous – or, more rightly, infamous – name in Missouri Baptist history: Jesse James.Īs one might imagine, the role that an outlaw plays in First Baptist Church’s past is met with mixed emotions. “Some don’t want to admit he was ever a part of the church,” said Ken Parker, pastor of present-day First Baptist.

He said he occasionally gets introduced as “Jesse James’s pastor,” a memorable (if inaccurate) title. See related story: ‘Baptists did not weep at his funeral’ “Others recognize it’s a part of history our history, good and bad.” The name Jesse James stirs up a blur of fact and fiction: exciting snapshots of shootouts on horseback. There’s an old trope that PKs – preacher’s kids – are wild and ill-behaved children.īut regardless of how history regards his deeds, the word after James’s name in First Baptist’s membership roll – added years later in different penmanship – hints at the notorious future to come: “excluded.” Son of a Preacher Man The reader can find any number of dime novels or movies to get the dramatic details of his exploits, but the short summary is at least 20 banks, stagecoaches and trains robbed 17 men murdered – and that’s just what he admitted to. The stereotype might have begun with young Jesse. He was the second son born to Zerelda and Robert Sallee James. A Kentucky boy, Robert followed his new bride to Clay County, Mo., in the early 1840s, ready to start his life, family and ministry.

There, he became pastor of New Hope Baptist Church (now known as New Direction Church), in Holt in 1843. “… is labors were much blessed, so that in the year following the church numbered 94 members,” writes R.S. Duncan in A History of Baptists in Missouri. The church was noted at the time for “resisting the encroachments of the anti-mission element,” the isolationist and inwardly focused tendency that caused many Baptist churches in the young state to close their doors. In 1882, a friend of the James family, Frank Triplett, wrote in one of the first Jesse James biographies that Robert was known as “a sincere Christian” and a “cultivated scholar.” Perhaps that is what led him to be one of the founding trustees of what became William Jewell College in Liberty in 1848.

(The college would have Baptist ties until the relationship between the school and the Missouri Baptist Convention was severed in 2003).

In 1849, he organized Pisgah Baptist Church in Excelsior Springs.

Ladies joining hands