Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years in a business noted for its casualty rate [March 14]. The reason is his relationship with music. Of the American singers of the rock era, only Jerry Lee has kept his performances and recordings alive by paying tribute to the nation's musical heritage of blues, gospel, country and rock 'n' roll...
...sometime novelist (Entertaining Strangers, The Gospel According to Joe) and television scriptwriter (an adaptation for PBS of the John Cheever story O Youth and Beauty!), Gurney is writing a play that he hopes will take on bigger and more tragic proportions than his 16 slight, mostly short stage works to date. Says he: "When I start writing a script, it always seems serious. But some how the pratfalls sneak in, and then I fight to keep them." His upbringing, he believes, has provided more than simply the raw material of his scripts: "I think it was the very fact that...
...most irritate California tax authorities is Armen Condo, a self-styled "maverick minister" who heads an organization called Your Heritage Protection Association, based in Orange County. With a dues-paying flock of 15,000, Condo took in an estimated $2 million in three years while preaching an unusual gospel: since the U.S. dollar cannot be redeemed in gold or silver, it is therefore corrupt, therefore not "real," and therefore nobody owes any taxes. Finally charged with tax and mail fraud, Condo last June was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $92,000. He is still free on appeal...
...fought back with a barrage of publicity, defensive polemics and at least 36,000 explanatory packets sent to local church leaders. N.C.C. General Secretary Claire Randall admits no serious mistakes in the council's political judgments and believes the attacks result from "our firm and unwavering adherence to Gospel as our churches interpret it." Says the Rev. Randolph Nugent, who runs the Methodists' Board of Global Ministries: "Our only bias is toward the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not any political system. Jesus Christ and the Gospel do have a bias toward the poor...
...racism who are driven to violence as the only way left to them to redress grievances." The money is intended for welfare, not arms, but churches do not monitor how it is spent. It is this willingness to bunk potential excess in the sunny glow of the social gospel that has caused so much trouble for the W.C.C., and now the N.C.C. Such bunks disturb Christians who view Marxism as the world's gravest long-term threat to human rights...