Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comedy), can wear thin when the text of his sermon is the cupidity of women and the stupidity of men. Richard Pryor, Murphy's stand- up role model, earned his right to obscene rage. In the younger, middle- class comic, anger seems a petulant pose. Like any sham evangelist, he can entertain without convincing. And even in this ragged turn, a viewer can do with Murphy's comedy what Murphy complains most women want to do with his immense fortune: take half...
Kemp's appearance at Brandeis University came a day after Rev. Tim LaHaye resigned as a Kemp national co-chairman because of public outrage at the evangelist's criticisms of Jews and Catholics...
Kemp said he would accept LaHaye's resignation and disassociated himself from the evangelist's writings and those of LaHaye's wife. "Should he be allowed to resign? Yes," Kemp said. "Should I pounce on them...
...answer the question of where the movement will go, however. The end of the Falwell era should inspire a sweeping re-examination of the way conservative Christians separate church and state. As it happens, one vision is already being forcefully argued by Charles Colson, the Watergate felon turned prison evangelist, in his articulate new book Kingdoms in Conflict (Morrow/Zondervan; $15.95). Colson's criticisms of the Religious Right are especially noteworthy, coming as they do from a biblically conservative Southern Baptist who joins with the movement in decrying America's continued drift toward dangerous immorality and secularism...
After the memorial service, there is a picnic and church bazaar. While women swap dessert recipes and sewing hints, men exchange investment tips and talk soccer. Everybody gossips. Weightier topics are also touched on: AIDS, the Persian Gulf war, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's recent Brazilian tour. What distinguishes the occasion is its civility. Even the singing of hymns at the service seems contained. Perhaps the restraint stems partly from the absence of hard liquor and beer. "As practicing Protestants, many of us think alcohol is unholy and unhealthy," says John Homer Steagall, 68, a retired Singer sewing-machine general manager...