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MASS. HALL'S LATEST SORTIES in the South Africa conflict subtly contradict chapters two and three of the gospel according...
Last week, President Bok quietly but irrevocably crossed the line--the party line, the intricate and legalistic public relations line that has upheld his position for more than a decade. For better or for worse, the University can no longer credibly invoke the gospel according to Bok in defense of the status...
Some fellow clergymen viewed his ministry as an entrepreneurial sideshow. One of them, the Rev. John Killinger of Lynchburg's First Presbyterian Church, rose in the pulpit in 1981 and asked his parishioners whether they believed Jesus would ever have appeared on the Old Time Gospel Hour. It was a sharp rebuke from the right side of the tracks. Falwell struck back with typical venom, mispronouncing Killinger's name as Dillinger. Falwell's aggressive tone may have given some of his supporters violent ideas: Killinger and his family began getting death threats...
Falwell, 52, did not need to depend only on journalists to transmit his revelations. There would be opportunity later for a few comments on his Old Time Gospel Hour, and for a fuller report on Jerry Falwell Live, which is transmitted to 34 million homes on Ted Turner's WTBS cable-TV system each Sunday night...
...growing number of political moderates are deeply worried by LaHaye-style threats and by the specter of schoolbook censorship, legislation of private morality, and the packing of courts with doctrinaire "pro-family" judges. Some of the most thoughtful objections come from the Evangelical movement. The "packaging of the Gospel with politics" is unfortunate for the faith, says Chattanooga's Ben Haden, a conservative Presbyterian pastor and TV preacher. He compares the Fundamentalists who are venturing into politics to the church liberals who stressed social action over the Gospel in the 1960s. Charles Colson, the Nixon aide who served seven months...