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...remarkable career, Graham managed to avoid the financial and sexual scandals that have plagued other evangelists. He never built a church of his own, instead directing his followers to their own local churches...
...probably best known for tossing clubs and devil sticks in front of Memorial Church at their regular Sunday afternoon meetings, but the club takes its juggling seriously. Last summer, members strutted their stuff at the International Juggling Association festival and competition in Niagara Falls, where Joseph A. Cousin '02 juggled nine balls for 22 catches--and won a gold medal for his efforts...
Here is the way one survivor tells it. When Larry Gene Ashbrook walked into the church sanctuary with his guns--a 9-mm semiautomatic and a .380-cal. one--he paused. He had already started a shooting spree outside that left two dead. But once inside he was approached by one of the teens who had been singing along with a Christian rock 'n' roll praise band. What the youngster offered the black-jacketed killer was heaven, saying, "You need Jesus." Ashbrook, 47, answered, "It's all bulls___, what you believe!" It was only then that he opened...
Last week's massacre at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, may not have happened quite that way. That's a version being offered by someone who was there, but it's unconfirmed. Yet even if it is pious invention, it gives a glimpse of the way some evangelical Christians, children and adults alike, are thinking these days about the string of killings around the U.S. in which they have been victims. Last week's toll was added to the count of Christian teens killed at Columbine and three students killed at a 1997 prayer circle in West Paducah...
...interested in." Said Couric: "Well, go ahead." And Meredith explained that because of all the seminary students attending Wedgwood, "if I were Satan, and if I were real, and I wanted to deliver a death knell to the kingdom of God, I would target this church...