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...hard won. How many other FORTUNE 500 CEOs know what it's like to be denied a mortgage - as Lewis was when he was a 30-year-old manager newly posted to New York City from Charlotte, N.C.? A native of Meridian, Miss., Lewis was steeped in the gospel of hard work from an early age. When his father left the family, Lewis' mother Byrdine supported him and his sister in Columbus, Ga., by working double shifts as a nurse. Following her example, Lewis worked his way through Georgia State University as an accountant and an airline-reservation agent...
...also hinting that it was capable of something more. Flynn finally revealed that “something more” in the third-to-last song, “Ain’t it Good?” when she sang with all the power and feeling of a gospel choir. (Yeah, the entire choir...
...England's team-first, one-game-at-a-time gospel may bore us. We want them to talk about the streak, but they won't. That's probably why they'll end up undefeated. No team blocks out distractions like New England. No team is more oblivious to how fans perceive them. "Who cares?" says veteran safety Rodney Harrison. "It's not about someone liking you. This is a business. We understand what people are going to say about us. But at the same time, we don't care. We can't care...
...Peter J. Gomes is afraid: he is afraid that the gospel of Jesus, the radical and “scandalous” good news he brought, has been lost in the rest of the Bible. The effort to reclaim the message constitutes the subject of the latest book by Gomes, a religion professor and the minister of Memorial Church. “It is no accident that although Jesus came preaching a disturbing and redistributive gospel, we do not preach what Jesus preached,” he writes. “Instead, we preach Jesus...
...same time we do not know the thing towards which we feel driven," the Pope writes. "This unknown 'thing' is the true 'hope' which drives us." But this eminently cerebral Pope makes clear that his vision of the Christian message is much more than an intellectual exercise. "The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open...