Word: gospeleer
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...faith in clear and inspirational terms, shrewdly noting that "if this seems counter-cultural, that is simply further evidence of the urgent need for a renewed evangelization of culture." In light of secularism on one hand and competing religions on the other, Benedict urged his lieutenants to preach the Gospel "as an integral way of life, offering an attractive and true answer, intellectually and practically, to real human problems...
...Friday at 5:00 p.m. he will become the first Pope to visit an American synagogue when he drops by to deliver Passover greetings at Manhattan's Park East synagogue. The only controversy may occur at his Thursday 9:30 a.m. Mass at Washington's Nationals Park. The gospel passage the Pope has chosen is the verse from the Gospel of John including Jesus' offering to his disciples, "peace be with you." But that sentence begins, "On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked ... for fear of the Jews." Abraham Foxman...
...Harvard students worked on the Greater Gospel Temple Church—a part of the African-American evangelical denomination Church of God and Christ—which arsonists destroyed in Nov. 1995. Though there was evidence of burglary, McCarthy said the case remains inconclusive...
...Billy Kyles muses as he recalls the colleagues surrounding King that fatal evening in Memphis, Tenn. They were vivid, vigorous, virile young men. In his last hour alive, King and his friends had a pillow fight in his motel room. History records that his last thoughts encompassed gospel music, neckties, soul food and the high price of righteousness. "I'd rather be dead than afraid," this threat-haunted man explained to his friends that...
...form of comic melodrama depends on creating emotional extremes, acute cartoons of recognizable behavior, people who hurt and get hurt. Public humiliation is the penance his stage characters must endure before they are absolved in a final embrace and bring the curtain down with a full-throated gospel song...