Word: gospels
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...upcoming crusade sermons. The big issue is sin. From the very beginning, man rebelled against God in the Garden of Eden and that has been inherited by the entire human race. It's a problem all over the world and in our own hearts. That's why the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the answer to sin, because when he died on the Cross, he took the sins of the world upon...
DIED. GIBSON KENTE, 72, revolutionary South African playwright considered the founding father of black-township theater; in Soweto. The first to bring the realities of township crime, poverty and politics to the stage--often using African gospel and jazz--Kente produced more than 20 plays, including Manana, the Jazz Prophet, and the antiapartheid piece How Long. Last year he defied his country's taboos about AIDS by acknowledging publicly that he was HIV positive...
...DIED. GIBSON KENTE, 72, revolutionary South African playwright considered the founding father of black-township theater; in Soweto. The first to bring the realities of township crime, poverty and politics to the stage - often using African gospel and jazz - Kente produced more than 20 plays, including Manana, the Jazz Prophet and the antiapartheid piece How Long. Last year he defied his country's taboos about aids by acknowledging publicly that he was HIV positive...
...never exactly clear if the words—the opening “Get Ready for Love,” for example, is built around the simple hook “Praise Him!”—are bolstered or subverted by the (effectively) overblown gospel choir behind them. Similarly, “Let the Bells Ring” centers on the repeated couplet “Let the bells ring / He is the real thing”—definitely not an original sentiment if sincere, but also not sarcastic enough in tone or delivery...
...West’s gospel today is of the secular sort. He preaches that democracy is “in crisis” and that “we need to be reminded of the intellectual and political resources available in the democratic tradition that we can build on in order to deal” with those threats...