Word: gospels
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...claimed 20 million viewers. Among the hallmarks of his 5,400-seat, marble-and-glass Cathedral of Tomorrow, a onetime movie theater near Akron, Ohio: a 100-ft.-long (about 30 m) cross, lit up with thousands of red, white and blue bulbs. His goal? Sticking to "the simple Gospel," not Beltway affairs. "If Jesus were preaching today," said Humbard, "he would never get into politics...
...court--but that did little to dampen the friendship and creative partnership Bobby Byrd shared with the Godfather of Soul over a half-century. In the early '50s, the singer helped secure the release of a young Brown from a Georgia youth detention center, invited him to join his gospel band and began to shape the future funk king's sound. As collaborators in the Famous Flames, the band that launched Brown, the pair co-wrote tunes, including Brown's signature Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine. On the recording, Byrd sings the recurring riff...
...scene in a bowling alley) and slows down the ballad "If I Fell" (which Wood does very nicely), but the songs are flexible enough to still sound great. To invoke the Detroit riots, a black boy sings "Let It Be," which, upon his death, is taken up by a gospel choir at his funeral. When Max goes to the draft center, soldiers in masks dance around the inductees to "I Want You (She's So Heavy"). Who's so heavy? The Statue of Liberty, which the recruits hoist above them and carry off to Vietnam. The a cappella "Because" submerges...
...have raised the bar forever on what we expect from a Pope. His central role in undoing Communism, critiquing capitalism and calling on world religions to actively seek peace made the last Pope a major global player. One can sense that Benedict understands that he cannot just do all gospel, all the time. In Austria he dropped in references to globalization, economic disparity and even the environment. But on those subjects he doesn't exhibit the incisive intelligence that characterize his theological and philosophical musings...
...poverty was more compelling than the candidate. He didn't go in for big, Bill Clinton-style shows of emotion; he simply interviewed people and let them tell their stories. At the Mount Levi Full Gospel Baptist Church in Canton, Miss., he spoke with poultry workers who live in a trailer park beside the chicken plant, as many as 10 or 12 stuffed into a single trailer with two beds. In West Helena, Ark., he met with home-health-care workers who earn little more than minimum wage from the state department of health-which won't let them work...