Word: gospeller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andrae Crouch brings the gospel to Soledad Prison...
...penitentiary housing 2,400 inmates is a cauldron of latent racial violence. In its 26-year history, 18 inmates have slaughtered one another in the name of black or white supremacy. Last week, as part of a continual effort to promote racial harmony, prison authorities held a concert by Gospel Singer Andrae Crouch, a black. TIME Correspondent James Wilde attended. His report...
...words were sung with a fervor that touched everyone in the hall. The audience ignited with applause. Andrae Crouch and the Disciples, 1977's top gospel group, had triumphed in the "gladiator school"-the inmates' name for Soledad Prison-on the threshold of the new year...
...says the Rev. Paul Moore, 35, minister of midtown Manhattan's Church of the Nazarene, "is to get the suburban church off its butt to save the cities. The government can't do it. Only the Gospel can." His aide, Bill Bray, gives short shrift to the "humanistic programs" run by traditional churches in the slums. As he sees it, they leave out the experience of God: "If I was like that I'd work for the government...
Moore's church has bought the once fashionable Lamb's Club in Manhattan's theater district and turned it into a multifaceted Gospel center. It houses a residence for young actors and artists, and a restaurant that doubles as a Christian supper club on weekends. (December attractions: a professional puppet show on the Nativity, and converted Folk Singer Noel Paul Stookey, formerly the middleman of Peter, Paul and Mary.) Moore is also trying to establish a helpful beachhead in an asphalt jungle of derelicts, runaways, lost teen-agers and prostitutes, sex parlors and porn shops. Says...