Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sundays, Ostling squeezes out time to instruct an adult Bible-study class at the Christian Reformed Church in Ridgewood, N.J., where he, his wife Joan and daughters Margaret, 15, and Elizabeth, 14, are all members of the congregation. He believes the current upheaval among the cathedrals of the airwaves may create benefits for less flamboyant Christian ministries. "Out of this," says he, "the unglamorous church on the corner may come out looking much more attractive...
...ministerial rivalries -- has coincided with a controversy swirling about another televangelist. The Rev. Oral Roberts, operator of a TV ministry, university and medical center in Tulsa, had broadcast that God would "call Oral Roberts home" unless by March 31 believers came up with $4.5 million for missionary work. Many Christians, including some Roberts followers, were scandalized by what they perceived to be implicit spiritual blackmail. The Bakker-Roberts furor raised questions about the future of TV evangelism, a fast-growing, klieg-lighted mode of Christian proselytizing -- and fund raising. Counting radio, the gospel broadcasters' total receipts probably approach $2 billion...
...Robertson, the engaging entrepreneur of the Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach, Va., denied that the furor over his fellow TV religionists would harm his hopes of becoming a Republican candidate for President of the U.S., although there was hearty debate about its effects on his campaign. Referring to Bakker, Robertson said, "I think the Lord is housecleaning a little bit. I'm glad to see it happen." Meanwhile, Robertson had other pressing business. He interrupted his campaign tours to give a deposition in his two libel suits, each for $35 million, against two politicians who said that his late...
...devout follower of Bakker's who was spiritually and emotionally "shattered" by the tryst. Hahn told her pastor, the Rev. Gene Profeta, about the incident. Profeta consulted his friend Paul R. Roper, a business consultant in Anaheim, Calif., and self-appointed monitor of clergy skulduggery. John Stewart, a Christian broadcaster and teacher at ! the Simon Greenleaf School of Law in California, became Roper's partner in the project. Hahn told Roper that Bakker had pressured her into sex. Roper says, "She was overwhelmed by being in the presence of this man ((Bakker)), who was second to God in her mind...
Kohl's attitude reflects West German public opinion. In a recent poll, 67% of the Chancellor's Christian Democratic Party voters said they believed Gorbachev's arms proposals were sincere. Aware that his words might cause concern in Washington and West European capitals, especially Paris, Kohl reiterated his commitment to the allies by saying, "There is no special German way to a solution...