Word: evangelistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since a young evangelist named Kip McKean founded the Boston Church of Christ (BCC) in 1979, the church's membership has increased rapidly internationally and throughout all 50 states, according to church members and an article appearing in Time magazine...
...installment, she chats with guests, usually priests or laymen who share her conservative views; both segments include calls from viewers. In video terms, it's totally retro, but it works. Says Jesuit Father Thomas Reese of the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington: "She's the most successful Catholic TV evangelist since [Bishop] Fulton Sheen...
Seen in that light, the Jews who rejected Jesus were instruments of Satan. The Evangelist Mark treats them as chiefly responsible for the Crucifixion, while softening the role of the Roman authorities. In Mark, the Roman governor Pilate, whom other sources of the period describe as a provincial tyrant, becomes a man helpless to oppose the Jewish elders demanding Christ's death. The later Evangelists expanded Mark's themes, paving the way for early Christian fathers who glimpsed the devil in their own adversaries...
...Mahatma Joe," the first novella in the collection, is the story of an evangelist trying to do one last good work, sending food to people in Africa. He plants a garden, helped first by his wife, and after her death, by a drifter, Leena...
HOSPITALIZED. BILLY GRAHAM, 76, silver-maned Christian evangelist; for flu symptoms and a bleeding colon, after slumping to the podium in mid-sermon; in Toronto...