Word: evangelists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Before televangelism got so complicated--before Jim Bakker had sex with a church clerk and Jerry Falwell entered politics--there was Rex Humbard, a wide-eyed guitar-playing, TV-loving revival preacher from Little Rock, Ark. In the early '50s, the self-described "electronic evangelist," who helped eulogize fan Elvis Presley, began to develop a following with TV broadcasts that for a time reached more parts of the globe than any other religious show and claimed 20 million viewers. Among the hallmarks of his 5,400-seat, marble-and-glass Cathedral of Tomorrow, a onetime movie theater near Akron, Ohio...
...year, Columbia hit the .500 mark for the first time since 1996. Repeating that feat will require improvement from the running game, which averaged only 44.1 yards per game last year. Senior quarterback Craig Hormann is back and has weapons in sophomore wideout Austin Knowlin and tight ends Troy Evangelist and Jamal Russell. The defense, tops in the Ivies in scoring defense last season with a unique 3-5-3 alignment, must replace five starters...
...Hitchens calls as his main corroborating witness a Canadian contemporary of Graham's, whom he misidentifies as "James Templeton." Hitchens explains that as a young firebrand preacher, Templeton (whose name was actually Charles), found his faith faltering; but when he challenged Graham, Hitchens claims, the evangelist told Templeton that it was too late to stop now - "We're in business" - and proceeded to spend the next 50 years as a kind of religious racketeer...
...disagree with him profoundly on his view of Christianity and think that much of what he says in the pulpit is puerile nonsense," Templeton wrote in his memoirs. "But there is no feigning in him: he believes what he believes with an invincible innocence. He is the only mass evangelist I would trust. And I miss...
...Like the evangelist's message, the cover image was timeless. Many bloggers have opined about whether it was coincidence or conspiracy behind the "devil's horns" they saw on Graham's head, but the way I see it, the editors chose to superimpose the powerful image of America's pastor at prayer over the magazine's logo to reflect that the Good News he preaches is outside the confines of TIME--both the magazine and the dimension. That is consistent with veteran writers Gibbs' and Duffy's story, which focused on a spiritual rather than secular mission in which Graham...