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...cheering fans and local politicians watched as Graham unveiled a plaque commemorating the 1949 start of his Crusade for Christ. During that eight-week stint, 350,000 listened to the young preacher; more than 100 million have done so since. "I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority," he says with seemingly undiminished vigor. "I still feel as though...
John Harvard, an Englishman converted to Puritanism, sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 to preach his belief. He died a year later "of a consumption" and left 400 books and $800 to a recently formed school in the American Cambridge...
...popular teacher at Wittenberg but also vicar provincial in charge of eleven houses of the Hermits of St. Augustine. He was brilliant, tireless and a judicious administrator, though given to bouts of spiritual depression. To make his point on indulgences, Luther dashed off 95 theses condemning the system ("They preach human folly who pretend that as soon as money in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs") and sent them to Archbishop Albrecht and a number of theologians...
...result of the negotiations, the Rev. Carl Peter, dean of the School of Religious Studies at Catholic University, believes that "when Lutherans teach and preach what Catholics hold, they will be more careful, and vice versa...
Tall, poised and impeccably dressed, Gray, 42, is a third-generation minister who returns home on weekends to preach at the Bright Hope Baptist Church in North Philadelphia. His critics in the Second District, including old machine politicians and more militant black leaders, fault Gray for his coziness with Philadelphia's white power structure. But his ability to move smoothly between the two worlds has clearly paid off for blacks. In 1978 he formed a coalition with white liberals that defeated a charter-change proposal that would have allowed then Mayor Frank Rizzo another term. Gray was the first...