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...there is a character who can be called central, he is Crooked Creek's Preacher Prescott, who knows that "all of this short life [is] a leavetaking, while you hang on, saying No, not yet." Preacher Prescott, both a Job and a Jeremiah, is summoned to his church in the dead of one night by the clangorous bell-ringing of a white-hating rabble-rouser and finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads...
...television for the Los Angeles Presbytery, took to the air himself to warn against the danger of the profiteering electronic evangelist. Said he: "The television industry and the respected denominations in your community have this in common-they both have an enemy. This enemy is the fringe or marginal preacher. He makes use of the air lanes for his own monetary gains. The religious exploiter [requests] that you write in for a pamphlet or booklet, with the idea that he has your mailing address for . . . solicitations . . . for money. These religious hucksters do untold damage to the church cause. Some...
...ministers, psychiatrists and others who are expected to help supervise the project are the Rev. Paul J. Tillich, University Professor and world-renowned theologian; Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University's health services; Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology; and the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Memorial Hall preacher...
...Trotman, "the Navigator," light and power of a movement that echoes the words of the Scriptures around the world. Billy Graham interrupted his evangelist crusade in Oklahoma City to "preach his funeral" at Colorado Springs, Colo., and devoted his week's Hour of Decision broadcast to him. Radio Preacher Charles E. Fullen did the same with his Old Fashioned Revival Hour...
...real revival was going on. Said third-year student Tony Jaffe: "Religion is just the fashionable thing nowadays, keeping up with the Joneses. The churches are becoming sociable meeting places. Anyone who pretends to be anyone just has to go. There is more interest in the humor of the preacher than in the purpose of the congregation. Perhaps it's a release from neurosis as well. The pace of Oxford life is killing...