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...projects. Among them: a loan plan that the church's pastor, the Rev. Cecil Murray, says will renovate 35 existing black businesses in Los Angeles, start up 35 new ones and employ 350 people. "Spiritual development cannot take place without economic development," Murray says of the church's economic gospel. Says Danny Bakewell: "It has to be an active principle. It is not something that you can just talk about on Sunday. To make it believable, we need successes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gospel of Equity | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

Some of the tactics used in the service of the new gospel are controversial. Bakewell, for one, is often accused of practicing racial politics to advance his causes. Last summer he tangled with white contractors who had construction projects in South Central Los Angeles but did not employ any black workers on | their crews. Even though some of the crews had Latino or Asian workers clearing the wreckage of buildings destroyed in the riots, Bakewell led marches on the sites, forcing them to shut down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gospel of Equity | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...THEATER: Gospel Extravaganza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...splash of erotic spirituality. The instrumentation goes beyond the usual techno-pop electronics; there are slashing guitars, not just impersonal synthesizers. One track, Judas, has bagpipes; the confessional One Caress features a 20-piece orchestra, including violins; and the almost cathartic Get Right with Me comes complete with a gospel chorus, as Gahan sings, "I will have faith in man . . . Friends, if you've lost your way/ You will find it again someday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion a La Mode | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...slickly produced, highly listenable album, but there is in the end a certain failure of nerve. The kind of belief that Depeche Mode places at the core of these faux faith songs actually requires the kind of deep commitment that the band seems unwilling or unable to make. The gospel-tinged Get Right with Me cuts off before it culminates, just as the music and singing are reaching a climax. In other songs, the scanning of religious symbols becomes a numbing succession, like a bored teenager channel-surfing cable networks. Judas the betrayer. Zap. MTV. Zap. The heavenly host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion a La Mode | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

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