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Call it the desegregation of the megachurches - and consider it a possible pivotal moment in the nation's faith. Such rapid change in such big institutions "blows my mind," says Emerson. Some of the country's largest churches are involved: the very biggest, Joel Osteen's Lakewood Community Church in Houston (43,500 members), is split evenly among blacks, Hispanics and a category containing whites and Asians. Hybels' Willow Creek is at 20% minority. Megachurches serve only 7% of American churchgoers, but they are extraordinarily influential: Willow Creek, for instance, networks another 12,000 smaller congregations through its Willow Creek...
...spotted at Jose Rizal park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of south Seattle. Officers were dispatched to bus and train stations. As the search grew more frantic, frustration and fury over the murders grew too. In a demonstration of restrained anguish at a midmorning press conference during the search, Lakewood police guild president Brian Wurts said emphatically, "This guy should have never been on the street." Visibly agitated, he continued, "I think this country needs to get together and figure out why these people...
...gripped Washington State since early Sunday morning, Nov. 29, when Clemmons reportedly walked into the Forza Coffee Co., a shop in a strip mall in the Tacoma suburb of Parkland, reached into his jacket, pulled out a gun and opened fire on four officers from the town of Lakewood who were working on their laptops. It ended on a dark street in south Seattle just before 3 a.m. on Tuesday, when Clemmons was gunned down after trying to evade a police officer who had recognized him during a stolen-car check. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...wants you to be rich. When the financial crisis hit, some analysts blamed preachers of the so-called Prosperity Gospel for helping bring it on - and predicted that their churches' popularity would tank along with parishioners' portfolios. But Osteen, at least, is going strong: donations at Lakewood Church in Houston, where he is senior pastor, are steady. Attendance is up 10%. He preached to a sold-out Yankee Stadium in April. And he has just released a new book, It's Your Time, out Nov. 3. TIME talked to Osteen about whether his message helped cause the financial crisis...