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...with the plan was an Anglican priest turned traveling evangelical preacher named John Nelson Darby, who arrived in the U.S. in 1862 for the first of seven visits, bearing a radical new eschatology. Darby and minister Cyrus Scofield, who would expand the evangelist's ideas in the vastly influential Scofield Reference Bible, divided God's relationship with man into seven ages (the current sixth began with the death of Christ). Their vision grimly upended the previous wisdom. Far from getting ever better, things on earth would progressively worsen, until the Antichrist, also known as the Beast, arose. A seven-year...
...guerrillas are gathering in the basement. They used to meet Sunday nights at St. John the Evangelist Church in Wellesley, Mass., but the crowd got too big, so now they have broken into cells, gathering nightly by the dozen in parochial school cafeterias or places like this spare church cellar, plotting and testifying under flickering institutional lights. First up is a man in a gray suit. "If the church were a business," he says, "the hiring manager would be out of a job, and the CEO would be on the next boat out." Next comes a psychiatrist, who calls...
...high-powered urban professionals, academics and anxiety-ridden aspiring world-rulers, has a little-known softer side. A haven for the burned-out, the thoughtful or those who are simply disgusted with the kill-or-be-killed real world can be found at the Society for St. John the Evangelist (SSJE), an Episcopalian monastery located at 980 Memorial Dr., just a five-minute walk from the River Houses...
...another church near Shanley's wrote that a boy had told him he had been abused by Shanley at a cabin in the woods. In 1983, according to two lawsuits recently filed against Law, Shanley began repeatedly molesting two 6-year-old boys in his parish, St. John the Evangelist, in Newton, Mass. Gregory Ford and Paul Busa both say Shanley would regularly pull them out of catechism class and make them play the card game War. Whoever lost had to perform a sexual act, says Busa, now 24. The abuse lasted for about six years, he says. No criminal...
...long assumed that the growth of Islam in Britain was simply a function of immigration. But that underestimates the religion's appeal. Since the early 1980s, Bangladeshi and Pakistani imams, often associated with evangelist Islamic groups, have targeted young black inmates of British prisons. "Islam is a sort of natural religion for underdogs," says Ziauddin Sardar, a British scholar of Islam, "and that's one reason why Afro-Caribbean people have found its message very attractive." Prison authorities have allowed imams to bring literature into the jails--everything from copies of the Koran to anti-American leaflets highlighting the importance...