Word: gospels
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rein admits that pop can become cliché, so he has ventured outside his musical comfort zone. While working with Donna Summer on her next album (out this spring), he tried his hand at writing gospel, an experience he found "uplifting." It challenged him to reach people on a deeper level. But he says that heavy stuff can be "too much, too deep," which is why he and fans also need the lightness of pure...
...means by that. There's no question that Puffy knows how to find a good hook and a captivating beat, that he has an eye for talent and a gift for promotion, that he's adept at coining catchphrases and setting trends. I know that he has a gospel album in the works. I wonder if, post-trial, he's going to try and do work that's more significant and complex than the pop gangsta stuff he's churned out in the past...
...port city on the Indian Ocean hummed day and night with Zulu stevedores hauling ship cargo. Now in the small hours, the docks are quiet, but inside the Y, isicathamiya choral groups are pulsing. Isicathamiya (i-see-ca-tah-me-ya) encompasses elements of Zulu ritual celebrations and American gospel and ragtime. Opening for concerts in the late evening, the Beatrice Street Y offers a dim, sweltering performance hall one flight up crooked wooden stairs. The Saturday crowd sitting on plastic chairs and wooden benches fills the gymnasium-size venue all the way up to the raised concrete stage...
...class that "Our jobs in life are to increase society's wealth--we have to work on enlarging the pie. Enlarging the pie is what makes charity possible. If we didn't do this, there would be no such thing as charity!" Frantically scribbling notes, several students took as gospel this Word of the Professor--not realizing that there is perhaps a valid and opposing view...
...Morrisons came to China more than a decade ago to spread that message of faith. Bruce arrived from New Orleans, where he had studied forestry at Louisiana State University. Valori came from a family in Iowa filled with evangelical zeal: one sister was spreading the gospel in materialistic Hong Kong, another in war-ravaged Bosnia. But China's 1.3 billion souls have always been a big lure for evangelists, and the Morrisons eventually set up a home in Wuhan, a river-port city with a long missionary tradition. Bruce taught English at a local institute and Valori home-schooled...