Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. James F. ("Prophet") Jones, 63, flamboyant Father Divine-style evangelist who amassed a fortune while fishing for souls; in Detroit. "My faith," he said, "teaches people to live to enjoy their milk and honey and chariots -Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chryslers-here on earth instead of going to heaven." As "Dominion Ruler" of his Detroit-based Church of the Universal Triumph, Jones willingly accepted gifts from his black congregation. At his peak in the 1950s, Jones' inventory included a 54-room mansion, a gold-handled cane, a $17,000 diamond bracelet, a $12,900 white mink coat and several limousines...
...black revolutionary woman evangelist and a representative of pur black youth, all I have to say about...
...Evangelist Billy Graham is not too pleased with the Jesus Freak brand of Christianity. For one thing, there is that image of Christ as the original hippie. Ignoring those famous words about taking no thought for earthly goods and considering the lilies of the field ("They toil not, neither do they spin"), Graham insisted to his Second Chicago Crusade audience that Jesus "worked hard with his hands, and he was certainly not a dropout." As for the popular rock opera, Jesus Christ, Superstar: "It lacks a clear, compelling testimony of Scripture to the person of Jesus Christ," said Billy. "Over...
...University of Illinois last December that drew 12,000, probably the largest college religious meeting in North American history. Young Life, founded in 1941, reaches its audience with 1,300 clubs, U.S. and foreign. Youth for Christ began business a few years later with a lanky young evangelist named Billy Graham; it is now in 2,700 high schools...
...groups have had more impact than has one man, Assemblies of God Minister David Wilkerson, whose growing movement began with a single incident: his dramatic conversion of Brooklyn Teen-Age Gang Lord Nicky Cruz in 1958. Cruz himself is now an evangelist. Wilkerson's evangelical and antidrug organization, Teen Challenge, has 53 centers. His book about Cruz's conversion, The Cross and the Switchblade, has sold 6,000,000 copies; a movie version, starring Pat Boone as Wilkerson, will be released nationwide July 1. The book had an unusual side effect: its Pentecostal flavor helped launch the Roman Catholic Pentecostal...