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Seen in that light, the Jews who rejected Jesus were instruments of Satan. The Evangelist Mark treats them as chiefly responsible for the Crucifixion, while softening the role of the Roman authorities. In Mark, the Roman governor Pilate, whom other sources of the period describe as a provincial tyrant, becomes a man helpless to oppose the Jewish elders demanding Christ's death. The later Evangelists expanded Mark's themes, paving the way for early Christian fathers who glimpsed the devil in their own adversaries...
...Mahatma Joe," the first novella in the collection, is the story of an evangelist trying to do one last good work, sending food to people in Africa. He plants a garden, helped first by his wife, and after her death, by a drifter, Leena...
HOSPITALIZED. BILLY GRAHAM, 76, silver-maned Christian evangelist; for flu symptoms and a bleeding colon, after slumping to the podium in mid-sermon; in Toronto...
...fire of the evangelist is still there, but it has been tempered with a cool willingness to compromise. The President has made conciliatory gestures to aristocrats who opposed his election. He has massaged the egos of political opponents who supported his ouster. He has acceded to the demands of church superiors who successfully pressured him to resign his priesthood in November. He has renewed his promise to step down at the end of his term in February 1996, even though he lost three years of his five-year tenure in exile. As he goes about the business of remaking...
While maintaining his group's autonomy, Hrnicek acknowledged speaking with Doug Webber, an evangelist for the Boston Church of Christ...