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...saxophonist and composer; of complications from diabetes; in New York City. As a soloist, Hemphill offered a steel-edged, intense tone; as a composer, he reveled in the provocative. His work for the World Saxophone Quartet featured a reedy thicket of sax sound, freely drawing on musical forms from gospel to big band to cool jazz to blues...
While liberals use first century sociology to prove that the Gospel writers were inventing stories about Jesus to consolidate their power, Harris reaches the opposite conclusion. Why, he asks, were women given such a prominent role, if the accounts of the Resurrection were all made up? In the Gospels they were the first to see the empty tomb; Mary Magdalene received the first appearance. No one would invent the story this way, Harris argues, "given the fact that in Jewish law of the time a woman's testimony was unacceptable except in a few circumstances. This would have been...
...Stevie's back. And his new CD is a fairly sturdy one, even if the notorious procrastinator and perfectionist took four years to complete it. Wonder says his next release will be a gospel album. Here's hoping it doesn't take as long; even Michael Jordan stayed away for only 18 months...
Pope Issues "Gospel of Life...
Pope John Paul II issued his Evangelium Vitae, or "Gospel of Life," a sweeping encyclical letter, in which he not unexpectedly denounced abortion, euthanasia and the "culture of death." He also condemned the widespread imposition of the death penalty, saying it should be used only in "cases of absolute necessity," which he said are "very rare, if not practically nonexistent." Conscience itself, John Paul wrote, has been "darkened ... by such widespread conditioning...