Word: christian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jerry Falwell mellowing with age? Sort of. The edge has dropped from his voice a bit. The Christian conservative movement he helped start 20 years ago became a political and financial giant, but Falwell believes it also has sometimes gone too far in its rhetoric. "If we are to have a real Christian witness to millions of gay and lesbian people," he says--abandoning such terms as "homosexual deviants"--"we have to use our language carefully...
...Christian rock blares. Eventually, Falwell takes the podium, as he has countless times in his 47 years of preaching. But when he speaks, the words sound a bit strange...
...they are friends again. They have bonded over mutual horror at the high-profile violence of the past year, beginning with the Shepard murder and culminating in September, when seven Christian young people were murdered at a Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas. "Columbine, Paducah, the Gaithers, the Shepards, we don't like any of that," Falwell told TIME. It sounds a little odd to compare school shootings in Colorado and Kentucky with anti-gay slayings, but over the past few years, evangelical Christians have begun to see themselves as victims, just as many gays do. Conservative Christians have lost...
...yielding by far the highest dollars-per-screen figure in the Top 10. And the suits didn't know the half of it. The movie, it turns out, was funded by what the Hollywood Reporter's David Finnigan describes (fondly--he moonlights as a religion journalist) as "a little Christian cable channel most noted for one of its co-hosts' having enormous hair...
...York and Casper Van Dien, was made on a modest budget--$7.2 million. And like Blair, it ran a remarkable under-the-radar promotion campaign. But where Blair used the Internet, Omega employed an even more unusual grass roots: it was sold almost exclusively through--and to--the Evangelical Christian community. Crowed producer Matthew Crouch: "I feel we've identified a new consumer group that Hollywood, Wall Street and Madison Avenue don't know exists. We've primed the pump, and there will be more to come...