Word: evangelistics
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...religious thinkers are skeptical. Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law, for one, sees a "regrettable" choice: "either to let ((Saddam)) continue to wreak his havoc unchecked or to defend the cause of justice with arms." Protestant evangelist Billy Graham agrees: "Sometimes it becomes necessary to fight the strong in order to protect the weak." Jewish groups cite the manifest threat that Iraq poses to Israel as well as to Arab lands...
...principal bidder for the PTL cable network looked to be evangelist Oral Roberts, whose career has had more ups and downs than the water slide at the now defunct theme park. It has been mostly downs since he launched his desperate give-millions-lest-I-die fund-raising drive in 1987. In the past year the Tulsa televangelist has laid off 10% of his staff and folded his cherished City of Faith hospital and medical school. In search of a more promising venture, Roberts decided to take a bold gamble and offer $6.5 million to obtain PTL's cable...
...knew the great dangers that being a political partisan has for an evangelist or a preacher of the gospel. People say, "Well, you have been friends with all these Republican Presidents." But I have been friends with Democrats too. I am a registered Democrat. So I was determined to be just as neutral as I could be in those things. I also remember Jerry Falwell flew down here to Montreat to see me about the Moral Majority. He said, "Billy, I want to tell you, you stay out of Moral Majority. You have too big a ministry to get bogged...
...point or just to give a joke some taboo oomph, is to talk dirty. Plenty of comics don't; the most popular TV comedian of the '80s is clean (and funny) Jay Leno. But plenty do. Just watch them on HBO or Showtime. Sam Kinison, a kind of defrocked evangelist of red-neck rage (and also, in spurts, funny), provoked the condemnation of gay spokesmen with his jokes about AIDS. On his new album, Leader of the Banned, Kinison declares that his motto is "family entertainment," then proceeds to put the knock on gays, Dr. Ruth, Jerry Lewis' "kids...
Robbins is fed up, as well he might be, with the murderous tribalism that so often is the public face of organized religion. He sets in motion an American tel-evangelist whose septic inspiration it is to blow up the Dome of the Rock, the holy Muslim shrine in Jerusalem, thus bringing on World War III, the Second Coming of Christ and Judgment...