Word: gospeling
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...prudent men would walk lightly into a university presidency today, and the presidency of the nation's most renowned Protestant seminary is no exception. At Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, where campus dissensions are exacerbated by increasingly divergent views on the application of the Christian Gospel, the search for a new president has lasted for more than two years. Last week Union's board finally settled on a personable, activist cleric whose chief credentials are administrative ability and courage: the Rt. Rev. J. (for John) Brooke Mosley, 54, former Episcopal Bishop of Delaware and currently Deputy...
...habit of taking light rock, such as softer ditties by the Beatles, and giving it the heavy treatment. Now Joe has a large new group (36 friends known as Mad Dogs and Englishmen). It can back him up in anything from jazz to low-down blues to gospel singing. Gruff and virile of tone, but now obviously a star, Joe belts out his songs as to the manna born. He knows just when to shout, just when to pout, just when to let a phrase die with a low, sad whimper. At the Fillmore, Cocker's group came...
...transform lives. "We need the church to be a spiritual organism," shouted Marshall in one sermon, "where the Spirit of God goes out into the broader community and reorders and restructures and radicalizes and revolutionizes that community. That's what Jesus wants, that's what the Gospel is all about...
...Joseph H. Jackson would most emphatically disagree with Marshall's conviction that the Gospel prescribes revolution. Jackson, pastor of the big Olivet Baptist Church on Chicage's South Side and perennial president of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., Inc. (he claims 6,000,000 members), is in his mid-60s. But there is more than a generation gap between him and Calvin Marshall. Jackson bitterly opposed Martin Luther King's civil-disobedience campaign, and has so vigorously quashed liberal opposition within his denomination that half a million members (including King) left in 1961 to form the Progressive...
...mockery which has often characterized Negro humor or for the literary sense of irony that has dominated much of modern white poetry. But the black poets have a continuing oral tradition lacking in the more cerebral white English poetry. This tradition has been handed along from rural preachers to gospel singers to blues singers, to Langston Hughes, who dignified the street language of the blacks and read his poems wherever he could find an audience, even in bars. Today's black poets often chant their poetry in lofts, churches and schools, as if they were still tribal prophets. David...