Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success, Morton Bard remains an activist busy spreading the gospel. On another grant, he is repeating his program in the New York Housing Authority Police Department, an independent force of 1,400, with responsibility for the 600,000 residents of Manhattan's 150 public-housing developments...
...living out of his music. Bill played during the 30's with his brothers, Charlie and Birch, as the Monroe Brothers, one of the most popular and influential recording groups in the early period of commercial country music. The Monroe Brothers drew heavily on traditional material, sentimental ballads, and gospel songs for their repertoire...
...range of expression in Bill Monroe's songs and music is a reflection of his living life to its extremes. An especially important category of Blue Grass is that of sacred material. In an age swiftly retreating from organized religion. the starkly individual faith portrayed in Blue Grass Gospel Songs can be moving indeed. Perhaps over and above the material, however, it is the sincerity of presentation that is such a refreshing and striking characteristic of Blue Grass music...
Many laymen and clergy today believe that their churches have already gone too far in playing up social activism to the point of ignoring personal redemption and preaching of the Gospel. Partly because of the growing squabble over activism, and partly over the issue of ecumenism itself, total enrollment in the nine Consultation churches is down more than 1,000,000 members in the past three years alone...
About 315 of the 380 nuns decided to follow their president, Sister Anita Caspary, in asking for dispensation from church vows. The request will be granted. Rather than disband, they plan to form an independent secular organization devoted to "the service of man in the spirit of the Gospel...