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When the Robert M. Beren ’47 Tennis Center was officially dedicated last spring, coaches and players lauded the immaculate 18-court facility. At the dedication, women’s tennis coach Gordon Graham described it as a “glistening jewel” that would provide “a major source of confidence and pride, helping our athletes to compete at their best...
...Some Americans might find him too black. Some Christians would consider him too Pentecostal, and even some Pentecostals question aspects of his theology. Jakes has called homosexuality a "brokenness" and says he would not hire a sexually active gay person. It is a common position among conservative religious leaders (Graham, for instance, called homosexuality a sin), but gay Americans would have no reason at all to consider Jakes their preacher...
...Coach! Coach!" when he walks into their caucus meetings. Hastert's keen sense of the commonplace favors and bills his members need to survive the next election is in contrast to with Gingrich's millenarian frothings. "Newt had a vision for the year 2020," says South Carolina Representative Lindsey Graham. "Denny is thinking about next Tuesday." A conservative, Hastert has also done what DeLay and Armey could not: convinced pivotal G.O.P. moderates that he cares about them too. And he should. In a closely divided House, their votes carry more weight. "I don't know of anyone else who could...
...with appetites that are harder to satisfy outside church, as the culture grows noisier and more coarse. "People will come to church if they know they will be fed there--fed with the experience of an encounter with Christ," argues Robert Klonowski, a Lutheran minister in Chicago. "Billy Graham is no different than the weekly preacher. The job is the same...
...same, and yet very different. There are preachers like Graham whose gift is to grab hold of the hearts of the unchurched and launch them on a journey into faith. But it is one thing to inspire a moment of conversion; it is another to escort you, week after week, all the way home. The vast majority of preachers do their work in sanctuaries, not stadiums, before hundreds of listeners every week, not tens of thousands once a year. And for them, who are judged not only in the pulpit but also at the bedside, in the classroom...