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...weeks leading up to the millennial celebration, the government of Mikhail Gorbachev made an effort to signal its tolerance and even show some enthusiasm for Christianity. The General Secretary has, for instance, taken to lacing his speeches with references to the lives of Jesus Christ or John the Baptist. And in a remarkable pronouncement, the Soviet news agency TASS declared on June 4 that Russian Orthodoxy "expounds love and mercy and denounces idleness and money grubbing and inculcates in people high moral standards, which are needed in our socialist society...
...Glenda Brawley had not been arrested. Moreover, Mason and two other radical Brawley advisers -- Attorney Alton Maddox Jr. and the Rev. Al Sharpton -- had contrived the events that turned her into a fugitive. Nothing could have made the trio happier than the spectacle of police charging into the Ebenezer Baptist Church to capture her. Sharpton, 33, a minister-at-large with a rock-star haircut and a vituperative style, gave voice to their fantasy. "Show the nation the moral beast you are," he challenged the attorney general. "Come through these doors and arrest her." But police made no moves...
Skeptics will wonder whether a liberal Northeasterner can make inroads with the evangelical community. They should remember that Reagan, a divorced actor who seldom attends church, took in more evangelical support than a Southern Baptist sunday school teacher. (The Southern Baptist Convention, with nearly 15 million members, is the largest evangelical group.) The main reason: Carter ignored evangelicals while Reagan actively pursued their support...
...holy roll. Combining lively worship, warm fellowship and soul-winning zeal, the group posted an astounding 23.6% increase in church attendance between 1979 and 1985, a period when those crustier Protestants were struggling to stem decline. John Vaughn, who tracks church growth from Missouri's Southwest Baptist University, reports that two-fifths of America's most rapidly growing congregations are in the Assemblies. The mammoth First Assembly in Phoenix, for instance, boasts the nation's biggest Sunday school (8,000 students) and Holy Week pageants that have attracted tens of thousands...
MORE than 1600 people crowded into the Zion Baptist Church a Sunday or two ago to hear a politician and smell the same snake-oil their great-grandfathers did back when politics was a circus--not a situation comedy...