Word: churches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already 100 members strong. And God seems to be taking a tougher stand in his marketing material. An anonymous donor has financed a series of 18 billboards in Florida and four other states, with decidedly in-your-face messages not unlike those of New York City's Marble Collegiate Church. The Brits go further, with a campaign that compares Jesus to Che Guevara. Easter 1999 may be remembered as the time God said, "No more Mr. Nice...
...times and killing her. Miller's family accuses the police of murder. But police say Miller was reaching for the gun despite their orders not to. The explanation hasn't satisfied many people in Riverside's black community. Last week more than 1,200 people crowded into a Baptist church for a protest meeting led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...Ballantine; 405 pages; $25), is set in the very near future indeed, specifically the waning weeks of 1999. Millennial fever has reached even the idyllic and remote Smoky Mountain town of High Balsam, N.C. (winter pop. 1,000), where Margaret Bonner, 33, serves as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church. "Winter in the Great Smokies would shortly be upon us," Margaret says at the outset of her tale, "the winter that would see us into the next century and the new millennium. Other things were on their way to us as well, things we neither anticipated nor, in some cases...
Finally, a former High Balsam resident named Grace Munger has reappeared in town, hectoring everyone to join the "Millennium Birthday March for Jesus" that she is organizing, spurred on, she claims, by divine inspiration. Much of her bullying is directed at Margaret, who refuses to commit herself or her church to this sort of public demonstration. "We need less display," Margaret lectures Grace, "and more unassuming deeds behind the scenes." Privately, though, Margaret worries, "Am I just being a snob...
...fulsome praise of her: "Oh, Margaret, what a great, great story... You say such wise things, Margaret...You're an extraordinary young woman, Margaret." Isn't Margaret a wee bit full of herself? And what to make of this rector's loving inventories of the riches of her church, "the Elsa Van Wyck Memorial Ciborium with Van's grandmother's diamonds and garnets encrusted in the base, and the Georgian silver thurible...