Word: gospeller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for gospel songs, she will sing only such numbers as Danny Boy: "That's a sad song. It tells the experience of one who has grieved, so I can sing it. I love to sing songs with a sorrow aspect." She refuses to do blues numbers because "they're sinful." Explains Mahalia: "Blues only touch the heart. Gospel singing is a heart feeling, too, but it's also got His love, and that's what I've got to sing if I'm going to sing...
Mahalia Jackson Show (Sun. 10:05 p.m., CBS). Starring one of the nation's top gospel singers...
...social protest have rejected the church and Christian faith and have developed ideologies, often based on illusory hopes, that have become for millions of people inadequate substitutes for religion." The church should do everything possible "to disclose the illusions in these ideologies and to confront the world with the Gospel in its fullness, but at the same time it should in humility not forget that it has often obscured the radical demands of the Gospel...
...neighborhoods, e.g., in 'street or house churches,' where neighbors, church and non-church, gather to think and pray . . . In many parts of the world today, the determining context of a person's V life is not where he lives but where he V works . . . Therefore . . . the Gospel [must] be addressed to the group as well as to the individual...
...approach in our evangelizing task. In many countries, especially in Asia and parts of Africa, these religious revivals are reinforced by nationalism and often present themselves as effective bases for social reform . . . They [are] based on man's persistent desire to be master of his own destiny. The Gospel hope, on the contrary, does not rest upon what man can do for himself but on God's promise, in judgment and mercy, finally to fulfill His purposes...