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...David Van Biema. With reporting by Hilary Hylton/Austin
That's where some homework was called for. To choose America's best preacher, religion writer David Van Biema consulted experts in many denominations and spent hours watching tapes, searching for the most electrifying proclaimer of the Gospel. "Many were terrific, but the [T.D.] Jakes tape affected me profoundly," he recalls. "When I got down to the Superdome to hear him preach in person, I found him amazing. It was the mastery and the beauty of the thing...
...David Van Biema. Reported by Marc Hequet/St. Paul, Julie Rawe/ New York and Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
...Biema: In terms of healing the rift, the ultimate goal has to be rapprochement between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church. And you have to ask whether this trip, against the wishes of the Russian Orthodox patriarch, is ultimately going to make it easier or more difficult to heal the rift with the Russian church. Is it going to make the Russian church more open, following the experience of the pope's visits to Greece and Rumania and now Ukraine, to Rome, or more hostile? That remains to be seen...
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