Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...original songwriter who, judging by the four songs included on Way Back to Paradise, has a straight shot at becoming the next Stephen Sondheim. His expressive range is wide enough to encompass The Allure of Silence, a gentle vignette of unspoken love on a winter evening, and Come to Jesus, a harrowing, near operatic dialogue between a woman about to have an abortion and the devastated lover who has deserted her ("You feel it too, dying, and I can't look anymore...
...expansive moral imagination has much to recommend it--including the endorsement of Jesus Christ. (Among the tactical advantages of Clinton's prayer breakfast was getting reporters to quote clergy quoting Scripture: "He that is without sin, let him first cast a stone.") Still, however humane a generous imagination may be, it poses a problem: Once started, where does it stop...
Christianity means believing in the intrinsic beauty of every human being, the beauty of all that was created in the image of God. It means compassion for children, the poor, the suffering, the sick and the imprisoned. Those who invoke the name of Jesus Christ in this country today often forget that he was the child of a working class family, what we would call a "minority" in the Roman Empire, and something of a rebellious teenager. They forget that this traveling rabbi had no riches to speak of, counted prostitutes, beggars and criminals among his principal acquaintances...
...straight-talking TV lawyer to defend the President continue to fizzle, with three and then four candidates having refused the job. Of the current crowd, a former high-ranking White House official says, "They were all kind of standing around waiting to see if he would ever come to Jesus, waiting to see where his head was. The staff took its lead from him." In fairness, too, staff members never knew what the facts were, and the lawyers wouldn't tell them. They had no choice but to wait for signs from the top. An aide, asked what the strategy...
...violence, free of overt sex and free of foul language," says Paxson, who runs his empire from West Palm Beach, Fla. Paxson insists, however, that he's not aiming for a new incarnation of the Christian Broadcasting Network. "We're not going to proselytize or evangelize in any way. Jesus gave only one sermon, the Sermon on the Mount. The rest of the time he told about his father in stories and parables. And we'd like to be the story and parable teller...