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...accountability is the same thing as Jesus'," Roberts said. When John the Baptist asked Jesus through intermediaries for his credentials, Roberts was indicating, Jesus replied that he had healed the sick and raised the dead. Roberts also said that in the "world to come," he expected to return to Tulsa. He added, "I wouldn't be surprised if God did not bring me back to these 400 acres of Oral Roberts University he has built and would let me reign over these 400 acres...
...always cared about, is music. Gary Garland remembers the child Whitney, "dressed up in mother's gowns, down in the basement, singing her lungs out like she was in Madison Square Garden." At eleven, Whitney made her solo debut singing Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah at the local Baptist church. "I was scared to death," she recalls. "I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in a trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying. From then on, I knew...
...Graham, the world's best-known Protestant, has preached alongside a Pope. It will also be John Paul's first important acknowledgment of the evangelical movement. Some conservative Protestants who are hostile to Roman Catholicism urged Graham to stay away; indeed, the president of Graham's denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is bypassing the event. But Graham may feel an obligation toward the Pope, who, as Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, permitted the evangelist to speak in a major Cracow church in 1978. Graham faces a tight schedule: a week after the ecumenical encounter, he will pay his first visit to China...
...stand "separationists," who adhere to Thomas Jefferson's famous metaphor that the Constitution built a "wall of separation between church and state" and who embrace most of the Supreme Court's establishment rulings. Exponents include many Jewish lobbies and the National Council of Churches. The 14.6 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest Protestant body, deeply split on the issue, is represented in Washington by the proseparation Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs. Its leader, the Rev. James Dunn, says true faith is cheapened by "proclamation of God as the national mascot...
Presbyterians pass a landmark statement on Judaism. -- Baptist Fundamentalists win again. -- A federal court okays shunning...