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...fellow of considerable substance." With the aid of his collaborator, Anthony Walton, he casts himself as a sort of 'Sharpton Lite.' He writes with calculated candor about aspects of his life that can be counted on to spark empathy -- for instance, his early career as a traveling Pentecostal 'boy preacher,' which began at age four. But when it comes to his forays into racially charged controversies, White says Sharpton's account is self-servingly selective: "Sharpton owes his celebrity and influence to his willingness to do whatever it takes to be noticed by the media, from leading marches to being...
Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, Farmer detailed the bloody torture and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Romans slashed his back until "you [could] see the intestines," he bellowed. "It was excruciating pain.... But Jesus did not fall. Satan attacked with fury, but he never fell...
...Beat-type riff on the problems of race and disempowerment in the inner city, the play starts to careen out of control in the earliest minutes. While an unseen saxophonist plays, tableaus of conflict are played out on the stage. A young man (Kevin Crockett) fights with his preacher father (Tyrone Bean); a preposterous, grade-schooler's version of a prostitute (Melanie Futorian) fights with her john (Dwight Hart). Meanwhile, incredibly realistic-looking homeless people (Nick Linski and Tania Guimond), complete with filthy hair and that unsettling, rocking motion of the mentally disturbed, drift through the audience, with cups...
ROBERT AND CONNIE ROBERSON FInally got their daughter Rebecca back last week. "It was great," says Robert, a Pentecostal lay preacher, who, along with his wife, had just been cleared of 14 counts of child molestation in Wenatchee, Washington. Roberson says Rebecca, placed in foster care when her parents were arrested, "was fine--she just acted like she'd been staying overnight someplace else...
Science has neither proved nor disproved the existence of the itinerant preacher and wonder worker who Christians believe was the Son of God. After all, writes biblical scholar R.T. France, "no 1st century inscription mentions him and no object or building has survived which has a specific link to him." Nonetheless, recent finds in the Holy Land have provided a wealth of insights into the milieu from which belief in Christ emerged...