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...brightest or most affluent of the poor escape to private schools, the rest will be stranded in a public system even more starved for money than before. "We can't do something that leaves those with remedial needs behind," says the Rev. Lowell Marshall Shepard Jr., a Philadelphia pastor who opposes vouchers...
...avoid such costly confrontations, Forbes is recasting himself more to the Christian Coalition's liking while insisting he is not undergoing a makeover. "This is where Steve has always been," says Bill Dal Col, former campaign manager and president of the Forbes think tank. Forbes' pastor at St. John on the Mountain says Forbes has a track record of talking thoughtfully about religious subjects in the confines of his own church. In May 1994 "he gave really a remarkable speech on the subject of religion, ethics and spirituality on the one hand and corporate life and free enterprise...
...section of Seven Promises titled "Reclaiming Your Manhood," Tony Evans, a senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, puts it this way: "Sit down with your wife and say something like this: 'Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family, and I forced you to take my place. Now, I must reclaim that role'...I'm not suggesting you ask for your role back, I'm urging you take it back...there can be no compromise here. If you're going to lead, you must lead...
...melodrama about a minister's family; Dan Aykroyd's priestly sitcom Soul Man (ABC, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.); and the Angel spin-off Promised Land (CBS, Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.). Joining them are four newcomers, each offering a slightly more irreverent approach to religion. A pastor tries to fill his church on UPN's jokey sitcom Good News (Mondays, 9 p.m. E.T.). A winged adolescent watches over his mortal friend on ABC's kid-com Teen Angel (Fridays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.). And Fox's The Visitor (Fridays, 8 p.m. E.T.) mixes religion and sci-fi through the wanderings...
Monroe, a graduate of both Wellesley College and New York's Union Theological Seminary, served as a pastor at an African American church in New Jersey before coming to Harvard. During her college years, she worked as a youth minister at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square...