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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became a preacher of world peace, urging reconciliation with Russia and China, where his wife Ruth, the daughter of missionaries, was born. Angry Fundamentalists turned against him, a move that became an anti-Graham passion when he rejected the program of the Christian right: "I don't think Jesus or the Apostles took sides in the political arenas of their day." The break between Graham and the Christian right became absolute when he denounced the violence of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. "The tactics," Graham declared, "ought to be prayer and discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILLY GRAHAM: The Preacher | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...have to go to Jerusalem to find people who think they are Jesus or Moses," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. The problem in the Holy Land, however, is that the beauty, the history and the associations of the region can be awesome. "I have never heard of anyone going to the Holy Land," says TIME senior religion reporter Emily Mitchell, "who was not overwhelmed by the emotions it engendered. That can put a severe strain on some mentally fragile people." While cynics may be prone to smirk over the Jerusalem Syndrome, it?s important to remember one thing, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Y2K Problem: The Jerusalem Syndrome | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Jesus was born in the slum," Jackson said, comparing Christ's plight to that of countless disenfranchised groups in the U.S., "to an unmarried mother, who didn't have the right to vote, who didn't have the right pedigree. He was born outside, with the smell of manure. Jesus was born in the slum, but the slum was not born...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rev. Jesse Jackson Offers Spirited Words at Kennedy School Class Day | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...Jesus was born in the slum," Jackson said, comparing Christ's plight to that of countless disenfranchised groups in the U.S., "to an unmarried mother, who didn't have the right to vote, who didn't have the right pedigree. He was born outside, with the smell of manure. Jesus was born in the slum, but the slum was not born...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks Spirited Words at Kennedy School Class Day | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...Gore has been sounding positively soulful lately. Yes, that Al Gore. In campaign appearances the former divinity student talks about the struggle between good and evil, and invokes Jesus Christ's parable of the sower to explain how media violence subverts children. In New Hampshire, Gore compared the alienation of Cain--the first murderer--with the forces that drove two teenagers to commit the same sin in Colorado. He mused to a Washington Post columnist that society has finally reached "the end of a 400-year period of allergy to faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking a Leap of Faith | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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