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That leaves the dreaming to the folks on their country's cultural margins or, more specifically, to those intent on sharing the margins' insights with the mainstream. A gifted preacher has pulled African-American Pentecostalism onto center stage--and attracted the attention of white presidential candidates. A priest-academic has taken the stigma of Hispanic otherness and transformed it into a triumphant Catholic theology of mestizaje. A university professor, using her own life as an illustration, is opening Tibetan Buddhism to a large audience of African Americans...
...Made Me Free The Selfishness in Man The Honky Tonk Downstairs 'Once a Day' 'When Your House Is Not a Home 'Three's a Crowd' 'Mr. Fool' "Why yes," came the reply, "she's my sister." And Earl proceeded to tell me a bit about himself - he's a preacher now - and about some of the songs he had written for and with George. It was a nice, chatty e-mail, and I appreciated...
...Peter J. Gomes Preacher to Harvard University and professor...
...Gogh did not begin his life as an artist but as a preacher. The exhibit unfairly glosses over this fundamental decision and instead simply begins with a short biographical history and places his first drawings from 1881 and 1882, when he was living in The Hague, in the same room. This section features van Gogh's first portrait and his dark drawings of pensioners in charcoal, chalk...
...pretty funny (and the audience was packed with partisan laughers). He told a joke about the guy in church who keeps calling out during services, "Use me, Lord, use me," whereupon the preacher sets the man to work scraping and painting the pews. Next Sunday, the man cries out from the congregation, "Use me, Lord - but only in an advisory capacity...