Word: preacher
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...provide a chuckle. It is Gomes' attempt to contextualize the Bible for modern day life, or what he refers to as "awakening a sense of the divine" in a peculiar mix of Memorial Church's parishioners that includes people who seek biblical wisdom and people who seek his star-preacher attraction. For Gomes, the bible contains the "eternal truths that...have the capacity to speak to our ever evolving set of our circumstances." His book adapts and interprets these truths for all parishioners. And he adds the welcomed reassurance that "We have no right to expect...
...daughter of a former evangelistic preacher, Butterfly was bartending in Fayetteville, Ark., when she was in a nearly fatal car accident. Reassessing her life, she headed west last summer and ran into activists from Earth First, the environmental group that has waged a civil-disobedience campaign for the past decade to save old-growth forests. Soon the chirpy New Ager was volunteering to tree-sit, a favorite Earth First tactic...
Historians' comments: "Victim of events beyond his control"; "Should have been a preacher...
...begin with, King was a preacher who spoke in biblical cadences ideally suited to leading a stride toward freedom that found its inspiration in the Old Testament story of the Israelites and the New Testament gospel of Jesus Christ. Being a minister not only put King in touch with the spirit of the black masses but also gave him a base within the black church, then and now the strongest and most independent of black institutions...
...from prison. Abdul Koddus, who was working for a Cairo paper, went to interview them and immediately became attracted to the group and its leader, Omar Tilmisani, who stressed tolerance and exemplary personal behavior. By 1976, Abdul Koddus had stopped drinking alcohol, married the daughter of a prominent Muslim preacher and joined the Brotherhood...