Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wise, one of the first hippie Christians: "We use the Bible as therapy. It is as effective as anything going." Wise adds that the Jesus kids are growing up, marrying and having children. "They are more concerned with working out their life situations as families, rather than as Gospel gypsies." Other Jesus alumni are less noticeable because they are going to school. The new seminary at Anaheim's bustling Melodyland Christian Center hopes its nearly 250 students will provide theological leadership for the Neo-Pentecostalists, who form a major element in the youth revival...
...council's growth in breadth and numbers has not been without problems. Though conversations with Rome have increased, the prospect of official Roman Catholic membership is remote. Evangelicals both within and outside the W.C.C. question whether it has not virtually abandoned the traditional goal of spreading the Gospel. The W.C.C. has financial troubles, too. The combination of Swiss inflation and dollar devaluations has made the American and Canadian contributions-40% of the $2,000,000 budget-worth roughly half of what they were just five years...
Much of the book's success is due to its remarkable popularity among religious groups. The apparent reason: I'm OK reveals Harris-a practicing Presbyterian - as a cross between Norman Vincent Peale and Billy Graham. A cheerful mass evangelist, he preaches a gospel of original sin and carries, as he himself puts it, a "message of hope" to an ever increasing flock of converts. "We simply cannot argue with the endemic 'cussedness' of man," he says, in a characteristic mixture of everyday and evangelical language...
...excitement over Watergate? What is taking place in Washington these days is simply a reflection of ourselves and that creed we have adopted as being gospel...
Leon Russell. The Master of Space and Time has fallen on hard critical times. It's just that his brand of severely limited, gospel styled rock and roll only works in certain contexts. It was fine with Joe Cocker and forty other women, kids and dogs, but once Delaney and Bonnie got divorced, it all began to go a little flat. None of which has stopped Leon from accumulating large sums of money, and putting Tulsa back on the map as freak capital of the world, it just hasn't done much for him artistically. In fact, everything Leon touches...