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...most esteemed evangelist in America is a vicious, foulmouthed, whisky-swilling slob who carries on a flagrant liaison with a pea-brained wench. He treats his preacher son like dirt and shells out cash here and there to hush up his scandals. That's the protagonist of Miracle, a squalid novel by Dotson Rader (Random House...
...authors ought to know better of what they write. Canadian Charles Templeton, a ninth-grade dropout who later earned a Princeton Seminary degree, was almost as famous an evangelist as his friend Billy Graham, until he began losing his faith. Since then he has held three of the top news jobs in Canada: managing editor of the Toronto Star, news director of one of its two TV networks, and editor in chief of Maclean's magazine. Irishman Malachi Martin was a professor at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, and advised Cardinal Bea during the Second Vatican Council...
...Evangelist Oral Roberts tells it, he got the instructions straight from the Lord, just as Noah got the measurements for the Ark. Out walking in the California desert one day early in 1977, he heard God's plans for a hospital. It would be, said the Lord, "a new and different medical center," where "the healing streams of prayer and medicine must merge." Dubbed the City of Faith, it would rise in three towers, across from Oral Roberts University, behind a 60-ft. statue of healing hands. Biblical numerology was big in the Lord's plans: 777 beds...
...beds. Grumbled State Representative Mandell Matheson: "We are not talking about man building a monument to God, but man building a monument to man." The Oklahoma Health Planning Agency, a federal advisory board, recommended disapproval of Roberts' application. But after an intensive nationwide letter-writing campaign by the evangelist's supporters and lobbying by political friends, the state's health planning commission last week gave Roberts a go-ahead to begin building. Still, God's plans were somewhat modified: 294 beds at first, with later expansion...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society perform the Bach St. Matthew Passion twice this week with a professional orchestra and soloists, including Karl Dan Sorenson as the Evangelist. The concerts are tonight (Thursday), at 8:15, and Saturday at 7:30 pm, at Sanders Theatre...