Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bible calls on citizens "to obey the authorities," and that Jesus gave "man the power to be a better worker, a loyal citizen." One woman in the congregation disobeyed; she draped a banner over the balcony that read, "We have more than 150 prisoners for the work of the gospel." She was quietly escorted out of the church by several men in plain clothes and was presumably detained for questioning. Asked his opinion of the incident later, Graham replied: "We detain people in the United States if we catch them doing things wrong...
...Marx; one to present his theories, and one to explain why they were wrong. Ten years later, after reading Marx thoroughly, Marglin still reached the conclusion that Marx's broad theory was invalid, yet he refused to discard Marx entirely He, lime many radical economics, abandoned Marx's strict gospel in favor of newer theories Yet Margin charges few students of mainstream economics understand or appreciate this shift Otto Eckstein. Warburg Professor of Economics says there is not much non Marxist radical theory Few mainstream economists would dispute Eckstein's assertion, and most in the field have labelled Marglin...
...world history, with indigenous outposts in all nations and among many inaccessible tribes. Bible translation is booming; church broadcasts reach 990 million people a month. Some 6,850 of the 8,990 ethnic or linguistic groups on earth have by now been penetrated to some extent with the gospel. Thus though the Christian proportion of the world population is declining a bit, "the outreach, impact and influence of Christianity have risen spectacularly," he maintains. If the church has not achieved its much touted turn-of-the-century goal of "the evangelization of the world in this generation," Barrett says...
Folk musicians and gospel groups will perform all day, and Brother Blue, a local street performer, will tell stories...
When Graham speaks, at Nickerson Field, and 100,000 people gather, many of them won't be there because of Graham's new political message. They will be there because they want to hear the gospel according to the man who has been preaching it since 1939. While his two-month crusade will focus attention on the rapidly growing ecumenical involvement in the nuclear disarmament movement, the main force behind its scope is a new, nationwide rise in mainstream, moderate evangelism...