Word: gospelling
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...much like the average person's, my father being who he was, but it certainly provided a foundation and a guiding light for us. There was always really good gospel playing. No matter where you went in the house, there was always music. My father was also studying to be a theologian, and he had classes from time to time in the home. Other ministers would come in, and so we had to tone it down. That's what was going on in the house: the Word and a lot of music...
...this is seasoned with raucous gag lines, rafter-raising gospel and R&B songs, an inspirational Christian message (Shirley, on her deathbed and surrounded by the family, sings to her last breath - then reappears as a white-robed angel ascending to Heaven to finish the song) and the alternately jokey and hectoring presence of Madea. She is the irresistible center of gravity, dispensing both specific advice ("You've been tricked!" she tells the guy with the pushy fiancée. "Tricked by drug dealers! Get a job!") and all-purpose bromides ("If you think good things, good things...
...cheap political points by leaving such criminally mismanaged enterprises as AIG and GM to their fate. Of course, he might also have touched off an economic smashup. In pursuing what he believed to be the responsible course, Obama echoed George W. Bush's fourth-quarter abandonment of free-market gospel. For both men, survival trumped ideology. In the process, however, the candidate of change became the President of continuity, a politically perilous position he has since reinforced, along with U.S. ground forces in Afghanistan. (See pictures of Person of the Year 2009 runner-up General Stanley McChrystal...
...multi-perspectival look at what it means for each one of them to be black, the show consists of completely original work that includes rap, gospel, and dance, as well as more traditional forms of theater—but above all, it’s intended as a cathartic entry to a dialogue with an audience that Code Switch 7 feel is long overdue...
...industry dominated by the outside perception of an actor, Code Switch 7 envision themselves sparking a very personal conversation about being black in their original pieces. Some, like Settles, use music: he is incorporating part of a gospel song, “Trouble in My Way,” into his piece in order to talk about his own experience of black spirituality while growing up in Jersey City...