Word: gospeling
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...pleasurable, despite being built on very conventional forms, in both music and lyrics. There are country ballads, like "Waiting for a Train," the Jimmie Rodgers classic, and "Now You're Gone," which Tracy Nelson previously recorded on her country album; a waltz, "Finding Her": and a couple of imitation gospel numbers. "I'll Be Long Gone" and "Sweet Release," the latter probably the best cut on the record. With one or two exceptions, all the material is in a down and out, lovelorn vein, and will be especially appealing to those of you who dig self pity music...
...troubadours grow. There are, for example, such famous ex-group soloists as the individual Beatles, Neil Young and Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young). Elton John is an English one-man music industry whose songs range panoramically from country rock to blues. Leon Russell, the presiding master of gospel rock, invokes the Lord Jesus with piano playing that has a touch of Fatha Hines and a voice that has a touch of bayou frog. Nashville's Kris Kristofferson, an ex-Rhodes scholar, sings bluntly sensual protest songs that have made him the most controversial country songwriter-singer...
Mclntire wants to turn the Cape into a combination retirement village, college and convention center for supporters of his anti-Communist gospel. He has closed the bar in the Hilton and plans to impress the lessons of the Scriptures on visitors by converting buildings once owned by space contractors into replicas of biblical scenes. There will be a kitsch re-creation of King Solomon...
Following Jesus' command in the Gospel of Mark to spread the "good news" and in Matthew to "make disciples of all nations," Christian missionaries have scattered across the earth since the first Pentecost in Jerusalem. Now, despite the closing of Communist China and Third World resentment of so-called "cultural imperialism," Christian missions in many parts of the world are livelier than ever before...
Among Protestant evangelicals, of course, communicating the Gospel is still the core of the missionary effort. They take the injunction to preach literally. Dozens of high-powered transmitters operated by various evangelical groups now permit Protestant radio to cover the world with round-the-clock broadcasts, including areas where missionaries are forbidden. California-based Wycliffe Bible Translators carry the command to imaginative lengths. They train in a test "village" of primitive huts in the jungles of Mexico, then are sent to live unaided in the Latin American bush for six weeks. In order to get the Bible to many primitive...