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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Denver got an unusual proposal last year from their pastor. If they would turn in their guns, the Rev. Marshall Gourley told them, he would give $100 for each of them. Tired of officiating at the funerals of shooting victims, the priest has mounted a crusade against handgun violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denver: Gun Control at The Altar | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...church looks like a huge granite amphitheater, a scaled-down version of Chicago's McCormick Place. The first half-hour of the weekend service is devoted to such attractions as Christian rock music, drama and multimedia slide shows. Parishioners sit in posh theater seats rather than pews. When pastor Bill Hybels, 37, finally appears on the stage wearing a natty business suit and button-down collar, his message sounds more entrepreneurial than churchy. Preaching from a Plexiglas lectern, he talks about "taking risks" to be Christians and the "user value" of doctrinal studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full House at Willow Creek | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Success notwithstanding, Willow Creek's lack of tradition worries some observers. "What do you do when you get into trouble and you're not tied to anything?" asks a concerned Father Medard Laz, pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church in nearby Inverness. Even so, Hybels' methods are so popular that they are being copied nationwide. Three times a year, 500 pastors converge on Willow Creek to study Hybels' methods. Already dozens of copycat congregations have begun popping up around the country. One of them, founded by pastor Jim Nicodem in a shopping mall theater in nearby St. Charles four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full House at Willow Creek | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

RALPH ABERNATHY, who was vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is now senior pastor of West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta. -- WILLIAM ANDERS, Apollo 8 astronaut, is now senior executive vice president of Textron Inc. in Providence. -- FRANK BORMAN, Apollo 8 astronaut, heads Patlex Corp., a small California laser company, after serving ten years as chairman of Eastern Airlines. -- STOKELY CARMICHAEL, former head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, is now known as Kwame Ture and lives in Guinea. -- ALEXANDER DUBkCEK, who was head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, has retired from a minor post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postscript | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

When addressing the festive group, Fred Reisz, pastor of the church and advisor to the shelter, said, "When you all moved in across the street, we kind of wondered." But he went on to express his thanks for their support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Celebrates Victory | 12/8/1988 | See Source »

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