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...victims while overlooking black ones. Neighborhood groups have hit the streets to raise money for the victims, while politicians are using the incident to push their pet social agendas, from tougher police enforcement to more funding for youth programs. Even ministers have found themselves in the dustup, grappling for gospel truths to soothe confused, outraged flocks. On the Sunday morning following the arrests, the Rev. Denzil Green, the 69-year-old white pastor of Flint's Galileeon Baptist Church, declared to his predominantly black congregation, "The name of the game is sin, not skin...
...closer, with bids on the roadway project due this week, and it isn't just Steve Wynn who's behind the wheel. If the bids are within projections, he will have New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman and Atlantic City Mayor James Whelan with him, all of them preaching the gospel of small personal sacrifices for the greater public good. If you build it, suckers will come. As will thousands of jobs, millions of dollars in tax revenues and a rising tide of new prosperity that "will float all boats," as Whitman's flack says...
...struggled all his life to match sun and rain, to marry the world of autumn leaves and opera houses that he learned to love on paper with the unrecorded "pomme-arac" and fireflies of his long-colonized islands. If the multiculturalists who govern the academy were worthy of a gospel, they would need to look no further...
Circa A.D. 33 In The Gospel According to John, as Jesus is being arrested outside the Garden of Gethsemane, St. Peter cuts off the right ear of Malchus, a servant of the high priest. In The Gospel According to Luke, Jesus reattaches...
...Connor: I always had in mind that once I got to 30, I would be able to leave it behind. Which is partly what I Am Enough for Myself [a song on Gospel Oak] is about. I'm definitely getting to the stage of leaving it behind. I can't even remember quite a lot of it now, which is really good...