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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this just P.H.C. at the Plaza? Sure. Maybe. No. There was, of course, a rambling dispatch from Lake Wobegon (Pastor Ingqvist, Keillor reported with approval, shocked his congregation at Thanksgiving by urging them to "sin boldly"). Tom Keith, P.H.C.'s sound-effects wizard, was on hand to provide, among other arcanities, the splash of George Washington's silver dollar falling short into the Rappahannock. The show's funniest sketch, a serial, produced a new star, actress Ivy Austin. She plays Gloria, big-city girl, . whose boyfriend (as she confesses endlessly to her hairdresser) wants her to give up everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wild Seed in the Big Apple: Garrison Keillor | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Still, the issue of identity nags: Is the G.D.R. a nation, a state, part of a country yet to be unified? "For 40 years we were just letters," says Christian Fuhrer, pastor of Leipzig's Nikolai Church. "G-D-R. But not German. Not democratic. Just letters. We are Germans, certainly. But our German history is submerged: 1917 is when it begins for our students. The people must develop an identity. Only then can we discuss reunification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A State, Not a Nation: East Germans | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...gave an improbable 98.85% of the vote to the Communist Party. That anger found an outlet at the Nikolai Church, downtown, where a small band of peace activists had been meeting. Almost overnight their number grew into a mass movement for political freedom. "We didn't start this," says Pastor Christian Fuhrer, "but we protected it. We were the catalysts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leipzig: Hotbed of Protest | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...This is not an issue of morals," asserts Michael Hiller, assistant pastor at San Francisco's St. Francis Lutheran and openly homosexual. "It's an issue of justice." It is also a large and continuing problem for ordinary churchgoers, Protestants and Catholics alike, many of whom feel it would be morally wrong to undercut a tenet that Christianity has held with such confidence over so many centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Battle over Gay Clergy | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Michael Turek, a Lutheran pastor in the southern industrial city of 650,000, said by telephone about 500,000 people marched. A rally Saturday in East Berlin, where the crowd was estimated at one million, was the largest protest in the communist nation's 40-year history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half-Million in Leipzig Demand Reforms | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

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