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Meanwhile Dr. Nthato Motlana, chairman of the Soweto Civic Association, made one last attempt to persuade the police to allow a memorial service in St. Paul's. When that request was denied, Motlana entered the church and pleaded with 300 people seated in the pews, "Let's win freedom on...
Four years before Bakker began building his network, Robert H. Schuller decided to start telecasts from California's first drive-in church, which he had founded in Garden Grove. His optimistic Christianity won a ready audience, and the church boomed. Emboldened by a nationwide fund base, Schuller opened the Crystal...
That reaction was shared by many in Concord, N.H., McAuliffe's hometown. TV crews had been allowed to film inside Concord High School as students gathered to watch the launch; when the tragedy became apparent, the principal asked the press to leave. But more than 250 journalists soon invaded the...
After that, Foreman went back to Texas, state of his birth, on a self- assigned mission to spread the Word. This he did on street corners in Houston, as well as in any flyblown chapel of bedrock fundamentalism that would hear him out. Now and then, you would catch him...
"There's been a massive reaction by people in the pews against the very well-meaning New York boards that they never see," says Martin Marty, religion historian at the University of Chicago. A westward shift, he thinks, would be aimed at putting "the leadership in close touch with the...