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...accessible. "He carried me along, outlining his ideas all the way, to places where an interview subject normally wants his privacy," says White. These included a shopping trip, a visit to the podiatrist and a call on his ailing son Jonathan, 17, in a Chicago hospital. At the preacher's home in a pleasant black section of Chicago, White watched a brisk basketball game between Jackson and his aides. "His best shot is a kind of rising set shot, fired from not quite off his toes," reports White...
...Jesse, run! Run, Jesse, run.The chants roll toward him, rumbling like a pent-up storm, rising to the rafters and the stained-glass portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. With the practiced rhythms of preacher and pitchman, he launches his sermon on power. "There's a freedom train acoming," he intones. "But you got to be registered to ride." Amen! "Get on board! Get on board!" There is fire in his eyes, a pin in his starched collar, a finger in the air. "We can move from the slave ship to the championship! From the guttermost...
...heart of the country preacher's personality is a deep sense of religious calling. "I'm clearly a product of God's mission for me," he fervently says. "I'm a very ordinary person in my tastes and interests, but I have been used as an instrument in extraordinary ways." Yet he often seems beset by deep personal doubts, as if unable to erase the taunts of his youth. In private he is quiet to the point of being withdrawn. Says a friend: "People who have only seen him in public wouldn't recognize him." Despite his wide experience...
More inspirational crusade than a program of substance ("I am a preacher, not an educator," Jackson readily admits), PUSH-EXCEL exemplifies Jackson's belief that black students cannot just blame poor schools if they do not learn...
Sons of evangelists often follow in paternal footsteps. Timothy B. Robertson, 28, has just been made a vice president of Pat (700 Club) Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. Another TV preacher, Rex Humbard, has four children in his operation. Billy Graham's son Franklin, 30, is also a preacher, but he chose his own course and now heads Samaritan's Purse, a humanitarian agency working overseas. His father, though, sometimes muses that Franklin might prove useful some day in the Billy Graham organization...