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...reform package in a nationwide speech scheduled for next week, he will call on Congress to shun the influence peddlers and approve a program that is both simple and fair. Unfortunately, the Administration has tossed enough favors for interest groups into its own package to stir grumblings that the preacher himself has been tippling on the way to the temperance meeting...
Last month the blond evangelist, a former Mrs. California and a preacher for ten years, suddenly decided to lay off her 50 staffers and forsake her seemingly successful Terry Cole-Whittaker Ministries. The slim and folksy- friendly Rev. Terry bade a final goodbye last week at a hall in San Diego's Performing Arts Center. Below the balloon-festooned stage, a jazz combo and a Tibetan bell player generated mood music, and the Easter congregation of more than 4,000 joined in on Reach Out and Touch. As a 100-voice choir sang "Christ has risen," Cole-Whittaker materialized...
...like I was crazy. Maybe I did look crazy; all I know is since that day I wasn't a believer, I was a knower. Hallelujah, I'm saved! In all my wildest imagination I never thought up nothing like that. I sure didn't want to be no preacher 'cause that was the lowdownest thing in the world...
...long time, Schuller confesses, he harbored doubts about his own self- worth. Born in Iowa to a devout, hardscrabble farm family, he resolved early on to be a preacher. After seven years of study at Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, both in Holland, Mich., he was ordained in the Reformed Church in America in 1950. Five years later he went to Garden Grove, Calif., to set up a new ministry. Schuller's fledgling show-biz instincts led him to begin preaching from the roof of a rented drive-in theater's concession stand. Within four years he had attracted...
SARAH'S BACKGROUND does parallel Lee's; she too, is a child of middle-class Philadelphia Blacks. Her father is a preacher in the prosperous and ironically named New African Church. Reverend Phillips is also active in the civil rights movement. Sarah recalls Sunday sermons punctuated by Baptist baptisms with the same uneasiness she feels about the historic March on Washington, in which her parents participated. To the young Sarah, the civil rights movement seems "dull, a necessary burden on my conscience, like good grades or hungry people in India." For a girl whose most dramatic bouts with racism...