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BORN: June 15, 1951, Vermillion, S.D. EDUCATION: Evangel College, B.A., 1975; Southwest Missouri State U, M.B.A., 1989 FAMILY: Wife, Vicki; three children RELIGION: Assembly of God MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: College instructor; airline-company manager POLITICAL CAREER: Kansas Senate, 1992-94; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: 2250 North Rock Road, Suite 118-228, Wichita...
...been faced with a personal dilemma: whether and how to adjust his persona from that of the rowdy creator of a movement to its responsible leader. And so lately he has tried on a new voice. The 600 or so folks who turned up on Wednesday night at the Evangel Cathedral in Spartanburg, South Carolina, were treated to a remarkable spectacle: Patrick Buchanan preaching redemption. Buchanan left political veterans gasping when he borrowed the catechism of Jesse Jackson's campaign, the Old Testament verse that went with him everywhere: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble...
...movement, the hoopla, the crowds, the heat and even the food have a singular appeal. Jimmy Carter's excursions have been like a physical tonic. Once he got on the road he looked better, talked better and seemed to have more energy. Since childhood, he has been an evangel of one kind or another, and now he is taking his sermons down the longest sawdust trail man has ever devised. He came back from one trip so fired up that he had to phone Strauss late at night and twit him about being on vacation "while...
...carrying Evangel(ical)ism outside the Christian community"-if we do that, we're only doing the job we've been given of spreading the Gospel "to every creature." Conversion and a relationship with Jesus carry with them an automatic burden to tell others. Evangelism not carried outside the community ceases to be evangelism...
...point, Wilson introduces a figure of the old order, one Colonel Lambourn, who carries about maps of mysterious defense zones and obscure treasure troves. He is. of course, mad. Colonel and Teddy boy meet by chance, and the madman of the old regime is struck down by the inarticulate evangel of the new. Muses Wilson's Teddy boy in a weird finale: "See, it's like I said when I see red I don't know my own strength. And it's all, all of it, a bloody cheat and I don't know what...