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...most successful woman preacher-entrepreneurs is Johnnie Colemon, 70, who started her Christ Universal Temple in 1956 with 35 members. Now Colemon operates Chicago's largest black church, boasting 10,000 followers who meet in a sprawling $10.5 million complex on the city's South Side. Colemon was ordained by the Unity School of Christianity, based in Unity Village, Mo., a New Thought group that she quit in 1974 because of what she charged was a racist tinge. Colemon preaches reincarnation (she believes she was once an Egyptian princess) and an unapologetic quest for material prosperity ("Money...
Letters from outraged alumni appearing in the November 28 edition of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin demanded an explanation for what William C. Colemon '05 termed "the absurdity of placing this mural in Quincy House...
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