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...When I pray 'Thy Kingdom come on earth," I mean I want Atlanta to look like heaven." The author of that lofty sentiment, Andrew Young, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was elected mayor of Atlanta last week. But any hopes Young has to make the city more heavenly may depend on his ability to heal some decidedly uncelestial bitterness sowed in his campaign's final days. Young, 49, a former Congressman and lieutenant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., accused his opponent, white businessman and State Legislator Sidney Marcus, 53, of trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black and White | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...response to the letter of October 15 by Alan L. Jackson, Errol T. Louis, Abner A. Mason and Brian M. Weber--members of the William J. Seymour Society--we, too, as Christians of African descent, pray that Blacks will also heed the biblical wisdom imparted by Proverbs, Chapter 25, Verses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...Cont. | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...Christians of African descent, we pray that Blacks will awake from their leisure-intensive slumber and heed the rebuke of the prophet Amos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wasting Newsprint | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...those political preachers, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, said he thought Goldwater was angry that the newly fundamentalist conservative movement had left him behind. "I still love him, respect him, pray for him," said Falwell, adding, "In his heart, he knows he's wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulpit Bullies | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...often the centers of denunciations of the Sadat regime, were "nationalized," meaning that their imams (preachers) are to be replaced by "enlightened," government-sanctioned Islamic leaders. Complained one fundamentalist: "Every Muslim has his favorite sheik and his favorite mosque. How is he going to feel when he goes to pray on Friday and finds a government employee there instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Democracy with a Bite | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

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