Word: gills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...south side of Flint, Mich., is a patchwork of auto factories, union halls, corner taverns and conventional churches. Yet in this prosaic setting has arisen in recent years a belief as startling as anything cult-filled California has to offer. The unlikely focus of the new faith is Bernard Gill, for 13 years a respected clergyman in the Church of the Nazarene. Fed up with "promotion, programs, plans," he searched for a fiercer, purer form of Fundamentalism. Seven years ago, at 43, he quit the Nazarenes and with a handful of parishioners established the independent Colonial Village Church...
Soon, however, ordinary Fundamentalism was left far behind. Gill began walking the streets of Flint each morning, pausing in front of every house to pray for a religious revival. Thousands of times he prayed, "My God, why is there no prophet in this land?" Eventually the answer came: Gill himself was the prophet of the biblical "latter rain"* who would prepare the way for Christ's Second Coming. Gill got his first direct messages from God in February 1971, when "I felt his words moving through my mind." To keep them moving, Gill fasted for days at a time...
...Here at The New Yorker, Gill...
...sister Lee Radziwill in Manhattan last week: "I expect she'll come back here and carry on life as it was. After all, her children are settled here, she has her life here." Some friends think that she may pursue her interest in landmarks preservation; Critic Brendan Gill of The New Yorker, for which Jackie has already written one small article, feels that she has promise as a writer. Yet richer than before, eligible once again, she is sure to be hounded and watched and speculated upon anew. And also more vulnerable: for the first time in 15 years...
...Here at The New Yorker, Gill...