Word: gospels
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...whom Graham biographer William Martin calls "one of the most important of a generation of Evangelical titans," may have had nearly as much impact. Has Graham preached to millions, sometimes all at once? Bright, an inveterate quantifier, estimates that his great creation, Campus Crusade for Christ, has brought the gospel message to "six billion people" since its founding in 1951. He hastens to add that only God knows how many have accepted it in their hearts. Then, unable to hold back, he says "On the basis of what we've seen and heard, we can assume hundreds of millions." Along...
...gimmick. All evangelists are essentially marketers, but there is an ebullient post-war nerviness to Bright's Four Spiritual Laws, which boil the Gospel down to 45 words. ("God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life./Man is sinful and separated from God, thus cannot know and experience God's love and plan./Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin./We must individually receive Jesus as Savior and Lord.") Armed with this "spiritual pitch," CCC recruits could not only consolidate their faith but purvey it one-on-one like Amway. Once converted, more...
William Bennett used to be the U.S. Secretary of Education, but today he travels the nation to preach the home-school gospel. "I'm here to talk about the revolution of common sense," he told a Denver home-schooling conference in June. Working himself up to promote K12, his slick, new, for-profit online school for home schoolers, Bennett even suggested that "maybe we should subcontract all of public education to home schoolers." It was strange to watch a man once responsible for federal aid to public schools urge people to desert them. Imagine if Colin Powell gave a speech...
...Fauci modestly admits to "wearing several hats." He helps design and oversees large clinical trials of experimental AIDS drugs, conducts research in his own institute laboratory, publishes reams of scientific papers, makes weekly rounds of AIDS patients at an NIH clinical center and travels the world to spread the gospel of AIDS prevention and treatment. "It's almost as if I were trained for this epidemic," says Fauci, who earned a medical degree from Cornell and has specialized in infectious diseases and immunology...
...because that’s not that important. It was printed last October, and was maybe a testament to the high-flying optimism that had gripped Silicon Valley and Wall Street for four years. Or maybe it was a brand of “new economy” gospel. Or, heck, maybe it was for the 15 minutes of fame in the A section of the Wall Street Journal...