Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their fundamentalist sect does not allow its ministers to receive salaries, Father Ether Furnier earns his living as an engineer for Goodyear Aerospace Corp. Though the Furniers are obviously proud of their son and his success, Ether admits: "It is quite a shock when you expect to sire a gospel missionary and instead you get a rebel rock star...
However inelegant that sweat-soaked version of the Gospel according to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, muscular metaphors are nothing new to Christianity. St. Paul wrote, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race." What is new and startling is that hundreds of prominent athletes are practicing locker-room piety alongside the swingers of sport. In a year when many church agencies are promoting evangelism, harnessing the hero worship of athletes is a clever way to make religion attractive to the young...
...major talent that simply will not stop growing. By now a pop composer with no superiors and few equals, Simon, 31, manages to distill a diversity of pop styles into an original blend, yet remarkably enough never loses the original force or point, whether it be rock, gospel, folk, soul, jazz, or even hymnody...
...According to the Gospel of John, Nicodemus, a Pharisee, came to Jesus at night and asked him about his teachings and his divinity. - Besides Ervin, Baker and Weicker, the select committee consists of Democrats Herman E. Talmadge, Daniel K. Inouye and Joseph M. Montoya, and Republican Edward J. Gurney...
...Gospel According to St. Matthew. A far cry from the Hollywood Bible epics: immediate, made so by Pasolini's simplicity of setting and action, and his effective use of hand-held cameras and non-professional actors. Pasolini preserves the words of the gospel; his Marxism does not show through...