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...been devoted to the numinous imagery of Mark Rothko's paintings, with their feathery bars and rectangles of hovering light. The vital text, however, was unwittingly furnished by a popular American preacher in the 1920s, when asked to describe his vision of God. "I see him," said the evangelist, "as a sort of oblong blur...
...kind of alike, and I think something is really there between us," purred Faye Dunaway, 35, considering her newest costar. Teamed with Hollywood Veteran Bette Davis, 68, Faye plays the title role in Sister Aimee, a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on the life of California Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. Davis, who unsuccessfully sought a Sister Aimee movie role some three decades ago, belatedly settled for the part of McPherson's domineering mother on the mid-November TV show. No hard feelings, though. "Good God, Bette's been a star since...
...Michener is the evangelist of sports−Jock Lit's Billy Graham−Novak is the theologian. "Sports is. somehow, a religion," Novak declares, and happily settles down to his priestly duties. Words like "ritual," "legend" and "myth" labor in overtime. "Grace" takes on a double meaning. Old George Blanda is compared to Ulysses as he copes on "the green oval floor of the amphitheater" otherwise known as a football field. The "unforgettable stance and fluid swing" of Joe DiMaggio cannot be celebrated without cosmic theorizing. "Baseball is as close a liturgical enactment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant...
...Baptists have long claimed that sense of mission, one that transcends secular organization. Their ministers are as varied as former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox and former White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers, but no one conveys the Southern Baptist spirit more powerfully than Billy Graham, the Baptists' premier evangelist. His message is often one of sin and hellfire, but there is also a pep-talk quality that has encouraged millions. In his best-selling book, Angels, Graham conveys that quality when he writes: "Because our [spiritual] resources are unlimited, Christians will be winners. Millions of angels...
Although Sun Myung Moon sometimes appears to be a Christian evangelist, he is in actuality the megalomaniacal "messiah" of a new religion. Excerpts from speeches that "Master" Moon has given to disciples in the inner sanctum of his cult...