Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BILLY GRAHAM, golf partner of presidents. Billy Graham, who ducked the towering moral issue of his lifetime, the civil rights movement. Billy Graham came to Harvard this week. Memorial Church was one stop on the evangelist's tour of New England, one more evening in an endless stream of come-to-the-Lord nights for, barring the Pope, the most popular preacher on this planet. But his stream is not unchanging, every night has not been the same. The sermon he gave Wednesday was a stop too on an intellectual and ethical pilgrimage for Graham, a lifelong journey from what...
Evangelism is broader than the Southern Baptist church, the Billy Graham Crusade, or the Moral Majority, and it transcends divisions between Christian churches. Most evangelists describe their work as spreading the gospel or "telling the good news," as the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, head of the United Ministry here and the chairman of the ad hoc committee which invited Graham to Harvard, explains Graham himself says he used to resent being called an evangelist until he learned that the word can mean "another...
Graham's approach to politics also comes under fire from more socially oriented Christians. Members of Harvard's Seymour Society--a group of predominantly Black Christian social activists--protested at Graham's speech at the IOP, and Seymour Society president Jacqueline Cook asked the evangelist how he could justify his "criminal silence" on South African apartheid and U.S. military aid to Latin American dictatorships...
This Balthazar (symbolically named for one of the Magi) is an ambiguous wise man. He has been a phony evangelist who muleted gullible believers, a sly fox in the vineyards of the Lord. Precisely because he has dabbled in the devil's art, he can cite Scripture, incandescently, to cast out the devils who possess Shelley...
...leather, was first used in 1884 in Sweden for gloves. The French called them gants de Suède-gloves of Sweden.) Moreover, since the new ultrathin suedes and leathers "breathe" more easily, they are as comfortable on a summer evening as in winter. Calvin Klein, the leading evangelist of leather in the U.S., has increased the use of suede and leather for the past five years. "A beautiful something in suede," he says, "is more like a collector's item than a piece of clothing." Ralph Lauren and Anne Klein both use suede and leather extensively for knickers...