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...ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL. Ten days of hot music (jazz, blues, R. and B., Zydeco, gospel) and spicy food (jambalaya, crawfish pie, gumbo, red beans and rice), set in America's premier party town. Now in its 21st year, the festival will play host to some 3,000 musicians, including local artists and such international stars as B.B. King, Ramsey Lewis, Linda Ronstadt, Gary Burton, Ornette Coleman and the Crescent City's own Neville Brothers. April 27 through...
...group has "eclipsed" the chaplaincy, and he presumes that the role of the chaplains is to DISPLAY MEMORY discipline "strident lay groups." He seems unable to understand that student involvement in Catholic activities at Harvard is a collaborative effort, chaplains and students sharing their respective competencies to incarnate the gospel...
...Hudlin bros hail from East St. Louis, Ill., where they were nurtured, says Reginald, "in a matrix of black folk culture. Brother Joe May, a famous gospel singer, lived two doors down on one side, and Ike and Tina Turner lived two doors down the other side. It was sort of heaven and hell, equidistant." + The Hudlins emigrated to two matrices of official culture -- Warrington went to Yale, Reginald to Harvard -- but as filmmakers they wanted to return home. "When we went to parties, this funny stuff would happen," Reginald says. "I promised my friends that one day I would...
...Gospel text for the day was familiar enough: Matthew 4, depicting the devil's threefold temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. But the Sunday sermon, delivered last week by New York's John Cardinal O'Connor, quickly became a headline grabber. To illustrate the reality of evil and give the biblical theme a contemporary twist, O'Connor recited what he termed "gruesomely realistic" portions of The Exorcist, the 1971 novel (and later film) that drew upon accounts of hundreds of exorcisms. Moreover, after Mass the Cardinal revealed to reporters that priests had been authorized to perform two exorcisms...
Oral Roberts is chastised as the TV pioneer whose promises of blessings, blended with fund raising, laid the groundwork for the authors' major target, the so-called word of faith movement (a.k.a. the "prosperity gospel"). This is a get-rich-quick brand of Christianity that holds that God is bound to give believers whatever they "claim" through faith...