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Died. The Rev. Toby Crosby, 122, evangelist minister of the Church of Our Lord of the Apostolic Faith; in Palatka, Fla. Born a slave, last year Crosby was recognized by a society of centenarians as the second oldest American-after 133-year-old fellow Floridian Charlie Smith...
...Carter and his sister, Evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton (TIME, April 26), tell the story, he was upset over losing his first bid for Governor and was questioning his personal values and goals. In the course of his search for meaning, he took a long walk with his sister in the pine woods near his 200-acre peanut farm. Recalls Carter: "Ruth asked me if I would give up anything for Christ, if I would give up my life and my possessions?everything. I said I would. Then she asked if I would be willing to give up politics. I thought...
Sometime Lay Evangelist Jimmy Carter is not the only member of his Southern Baptist family to plunge into religious work. His younger sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, 46, has been on the Gospel trail for nine years both preaching and practicing what she calls "healing of memories." She works not only with her fellow Protestants but with Roman Catholics as well; 5,000 of them attended one of her healing sessions in Atlantic City last October. She also conducted spiritual workshops in 75 other U.S. cities last year, as well as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and England...
Patton says that TM literature replaces God with the phrase "Creative Intelligence," which he claims is a synonym for Hinduism's pantheistic deity. Brooks Alexander, a former TM meditator turned evangelist with the Berkeley group, explains that TM novices are not indoctrinated outright in Hinduism, as they might be in Judaism or Christianity. Rather, they are gradually conditioned to accept a Hindu world view, after which many move into a deeper involvement through meditation. Meanwhile, two prominent Protestants in Iowa, where the movement's Maharishi International University is located, have argued in the liberal Christian Century that...
...evangelist will carry his campaign for theocracy to Florida primary voters next week, he said, in much the same way that he carried a 20-foot wooden cross across America, Europe and Subsaharan Africa--on foot...