Word: beeson
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...hastens to add that only God knows how many have accepted it in their hearts. Then, unable to hold back, he says "On the basis of what we've seen and heard, we can assume hundreds of millions." Along with Graham, says Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School, Bright led evangelicals out of self-imposed isolation into their current rich (if bittersweet) engagement with the secular world. A tally of CCC grads among today's evangelical leaders, he adds, would be "enormous...
Kenule (Ken) Beeson Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian man of letters, a newspaper columnist, novelist, poet and author of the television show Basi and Company, about a young man always in and out of trouble. But in the '90s, he quit his TV career to lead a campaign against oil drilling that was devastating the lands of his Ogoni tribe. His crusade was derailed when his movement was implicated in the killing of four pro-government chiefs. Despite global protests and his pleas of innocence, he was hanged for murder. But he is not forgotten, as shown by the sign...