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...almost too much, and one found oneself fearing that she would fly off the handle at any moment. She seemed stifled, slightly ill at ease, almost hysterical. Then she broke into the schizophrenic voice of her irrational stage alter ego, which sounds like a combination of a southern preacher, an axe murderer and a juvenile delinquent. The tension evaporated, and she did what she does best: perform...
...meter’s run out—but there’s no parking ticket. We figure maybe the time spent with the people’s preacher had given us some kind of good parking-cop karma...
...circumventing the state-supported Catholic and Protestant churches. That makes their meetings (often in basements or abandoned buildings) illegal, but many of the devout want little to do with "patriotic" churches. "How can I believe in a Jesus who has to listen to leaders in Beijing?" asks an underground preacher from Henan province, who leads a group of Shouters. "My Jesus does not have any masters...
...Preacher, activist, follower of Gandhi's principles of nonviolent resistance, King had emerged as the champion of American blacks' crusade for civil rights. A veteran of the Montgomery, Ala., bus protests of the 1950s and the Southern sit-ins of the '60s, King came to the fore in the 1963 Birmingham, Ala., demonstrations for desegregation. In the same year he led 200,000 in the March on Washington and gave the galvanizing "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people," said his colleague the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. King...
...After his return, Ja'far might have stayed an obscure preacher in Yogyakarta but for an explosion of Muslim-Christian fighting in the Maluku Islands, the famed Spice Islands, in 1998. "We waited and waited for the government to respond and finally we gave up hope they would defend the Muslim community and decided to act ourselves," Ja'far says. His call for an armed defense force elicited a speedy response, both in personnel and cash. Within months the newly formed Laskar Jihad had sent some 3,000 volunteers to Ambon, the capital of Maluku province, a force the group...