Word: gospeling
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...momentum, as public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only he had a little more money and a little more power.' " Reagan told his Cabinet Secretaries that he was ready to hit "the sawdust trail," spreading the gospel to cut Government spending. "Lame duck?" he chortled. "I'll put a cast on that lame leg, and that will make a heck of a kicking...
...Missouri, the G.O.P. retained the governorship that Christopher ("Kit") Bond was required to give up after serving two terms. His successor: Attorney General John Ashcroft, 42, a born-again Christian who sometimes ended his stump speeches with a gospel hymn from one of the record albums he has co-recorded. Ashcroft beat back the challenge of Democrat Kenneth Rothman, 49, Lieutenant Governor for the past four years. A graduate of Yale and the son of minister, Ashcroft defended his failure to prosecute dioxin polluters by pointing out that doing so precipitately might have jeopardized the federal buyout of polluted homesites...
...Reagan's simply stated program of less government and more defense. He conceded last week that even his best shots, such as his opposition to Reagan's Star Wars proposal, did not seem to be "resonating with the voters." So he began preaching his deepest beliefs, the gospel handed down to him by his mentor, Hubert Humphrey: that government is a force for good, that society has a duty to care for its weak and poor and dispossessed. Rising at 5 a.m., hitting three or four states a day, drawing large, enthusiastic crowds (20,000 in Philadelphia...
...evangelical Christian who is concerned about the Reagan gospel that equates being a good Christian with espousing the President's political beliefs. Such stuff is the making of inquisitions. This Administration's record with regard to the disadvantaged and its blasé attitude toward the nuclear threat are not consistent with New Testament Christianity...
...leaders and speaking in Russian Orthodox cathedrals and churches that have rarely allowed Protestants in the pulpit. At Leningrad's Orthodox Academy, Graham offered advice to 1,000 seminarians and priests. Without directly citing Soviet restrictions, he said, "In some societies you cannot go out and preach the Gospel. What do you do?" His answer: "We must wear the fruit of the Spirit, so that people, when they see how we live, will be drawn to the Spirit within us." Christianity has survived atheist taunts, he said, "because the Gospel has its own power to change human lives...