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Reynolds Price offers a simple solution to the din of millennium madness: respond to the quiet voice of Jesus [RELIGION, Dec. 6]. Price eloquently rewrites the Gospel in words too plain to miss. His work shows that an individual's honest approach will not be turned away. This is one of TIME's most powerful pieces. DENNIS MISNER Grants Pass...
...promised "A new gospel based on archaeology and the Bible," but Price's article was simply a trite amalgam of the synoptic Gospels (Mark, Matthew and Luke). The historical Jesus deserves better than a narrative dressed up in cute, up-to-date literalism. No wonder the Jesus on the cover was shedding tears. Price's words reflected pious ignorance. (THE REV.) ERNEST W. COCKRELL St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Saratoga, Calif...
Still, a half-century of general prosperity in the U.S. has created a climate of toleration, if not enthusiasm, for the free-trade gospel--mostly, indeed, as a gospel of our civic religion rather than out of anyone's buying the math. Alarm about imports tends to ebb and flow with the economy--less in good times, more in bad. So how, in the best times ever, did the World Trade Organization become the global bogeyman? No earnest college kid ever hitched across the country to carry a picket sign against the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
...question about all three Gospel reports of Jesus' agony in the garden is this: If the disciples fell asleep, who heard and remembered Jesus' terrible prayer? My guess is only one of several practical possibilities...
Record producer extraordinaire John Hammond, whose discoveries ranged from Count Basie to Bob Dylan, turned impresario in 1938 and 1939 for a pair of Carnegie Hall concerts featuring an eye-popping array of now legendary jazz, blues and gospel artists, including Basie, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Big Joe Turner. Both concerts are available for the first time on CD, in digitally remastered sound, with 23 previously unreleased tracks thrown in to sweeten the pot. This three-disc boxed set is a platinum mine of great American music...