Word: evangelistic
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Jungreis, 45, bills herself as "the Rebbetzin" (Rabbi's Wife) or "the Jewish Soul on Fire." Others call her "the Jewish Billy Graham," but unlike the Baptist evangelist, she does not seek converts from other religions. Her sole mission is to lure, cajole or otherwise summon secularized Jews back to their faith...
...office that he holds. At 61 this week, he is still young for a reigning Pope. He has the physique of a former quarryman, chemical factory hand and outdoorsman. If his strength carries him through this crisis, he is likely to use that vigor once again as a traveling evangelist on behalf of the joy of the Christian life...
Wise Blood. John Huston, at his eccentric best, adapts the Flannery O'Connor tale about a Godforsaken evangelist. For red-clay craziness -weird, scary and funny-this...
Such an assault may be imminent. Evangelist Jerry Falwell, leader of Moral Majority, whose sermons on television and radio reach an estimated 25 million people, plans to enter the fray early next year and is seeking allies among blacks, as well as Catholics, Jews and Mormons...
...Survival of a Free Congress, which specializes in campaign organization and funding. Survival's Paul Weyrich is a top strategist for the New Right, advising such groups as the well-organized N.C.P.A.C., which aggressively stalks vulnerable liberals, and the Moral Majority, founded in 1979 by TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell. The Moral Majority spent an estimated $5 million this year on its campaign, claims to have signed up 72,000 ministers and 4 million lay members, and angered liberals, as well as a number of evangelicals, by arguing that Christians should not only fight for prayers in schools and against...