Word: gospels
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...years, he was also the Director of the Divinity School's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life. In addition, Thiemann is well-versed in modern Protestant thought, and has written a book entitled Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise...
...mother's life is at risk, and yet his website touts his record and priorities as Governor and Senator and makes no mention whatsoever of abortion. What do you make of a man who is caricatured as Cotton Mather but who is known among his friends for his gospel singing, piano playing, his love of dirt bikes and his ability to spear a carp on a 12-ft. pole? What do you make of a man who has in his barn a 7-ft. statue he crafted of the Statue of Liberty? He made it of barbed wire...
...suit. Says his longtime friend, Assemblies official George Wood: "I have never in a service observed John expressing one of what we call the charismatic gifts." Nor does he mention them in his book, despite much talk of God and Christ. Instead, he is known as a writer of gospel songs and a punctilious churchgoer who once, while Missouri Governor, surprised a Sunday-school teacher in California by popping up in her classroom for tutelage--a profile that could fit any upstanding Evangelical. The same might be said of the role his faith plays in his politics...
...thing, however, is certain: Ghosn won't let his troops quit on him. His relentless energy keeps his managers focused, if exhausted. For the rest of the company, he uses intermittent whistle-stop tours of factories and dealerships to keep driving home his gospel of "change...or else." As Ghosn commented to dealer-manager Yamano recently through his ever-present interpreter (he is diligent about his weekly Japanese lessons, but Ghosn depends on interpreters), "Your results show a loss. We want to know first, why? And second, what are you going to do about...
Marsalis particularly can lay down the jazz gospel with an evangelical fervor, and Burns gives him plenty of time at the pulpit. Probably too much. It would certainly have been better, for instance, to hear directly from some of the musicians who helped make the history besides Ellington or Basie rather than have Marsalis evoking times he never experienced, even if you can practically see the tongue of fire over his head when he speaks. But Jazz's seventh and finest episode, Dedicated to Chaos, which chronicles the beginnings of the bebop revolution as well as the coming of hard...