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Whether as a threat or a promise ?or as an object lesson?occultism is a phenomenon with which a growing number of churchmen realize that they must come to terms. One who sees it from a particularly revealing angle is the Rev. Festo Kivengere, an Anglican evangelist in Uganda who has been on a speaking tour of the U.S. Kivengere, who was raised as an animist, discerns in occultism "a trend toward the kind of religion that most of my people were converted from...
...Jewish Christians are increasingly conspicuous. Their number, while modest compared with the Jesus movement as a whole, is unprecedented among U.S. Jews. U.C.L.A. Campus Rabbi Shlomo Cunin estimates that young Jews are converting to Christianity at the rate of 6,000 to 7,000 a year. California Jewish Christian Evangelist Abe Schneider says he has noted more converts in the past nine months than in the previous 23 years combined...
...Theologian Kenneth Hamilton blames demythologized religion. "Liberal Protestantism excluded anything that couldn't be explained. But you can't have religious faith without the existence of a world transcending this one. People are starved of anything transcendent, and they have gone to the oldest and crudest superstitions." Evangelist Billy Graham says that Satanism is on the rise because belief in Jesus is growing. "The devil," asserts Graham, "is also making his pitch...
Oral Roberts University, founded a few years ago by evangelist Oral Roberts--a basketball fanatic--joined the major college division of the NCAA just this year, and its basketball team has climbed into the nation's top twenty teams with a 22-1 record...
Berg, who had once worked for TV Evangelist J. Fred Jordan, soon secured the use of Jordan's Texas and California properties for the Children of God, as they had come to call themselves. In return, Jordan displayed the youngsters, most of them in their late teens and 20s, in his televised fund-raising pitches. The arrangement lasted about a year and a half. An argument over the properties precipitated a clash, and Jordan ordered the Children off his land last September...