Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy stems from an agreement between Harvard and the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England under which the Society may have donated up to 400 pounds sterling to build a dormitory to house Indian students...
...folk "mariachi Mass," now popular among Mexican American Catholics. But another service there also reflects centuries of Latin tradition, as parishioners take parts-Roman soldiers, Jesus carrying the cross-in a Good Friday procession. In Gary, Ind., a black community church goes in for karate lessons and the gospel of liberation, but the rich hymn singing and some of the rolling language from the pulpit recall old-fashioned black Baptist devotion: "Thank you Lord, for all of your goodnesses." Indeed, the series is so full of regional and ethnic accents and special religious language that it would overwhelm a foreigner...
...campaign that was supposed to have been the evangelical catchword of the year: Key 73 (TIME, Feb. 19). As labored over for six years by Graham's organization and more than 150 other participating groups, Key 73 was intended to be a broad ecumenical effort to spread the Gospel-CALLING OUR CONTINENT TO CHRIST as the slogan put it. But by year's end most people on the continent had scarcely heard...
Some fundamentalist Christian critics were less easy to appease, especially when 43 Roman Catholic dioceses joined Key 73. The fundamentalists charged that the campaign was sacrificing important doctrinal distinctions for the sake of a watered-down Gospel. Its defenders counter that the basic Christian message is difficult enough to sell without ecclesiastical infighting...
Last year Lichtenstein hired Composer-Conductor Lukas Foss as director of the Academy's orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonia. Jazz, blues and gospel are heard throughout the year in the Black People's Music program, highlighted each fall by a festival of performing groups from Africa and Asia...