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...world were growing religious." But the social consequences of religious zeal were more dramatic during the "Second Awakening," which took place more than half a century later. The network of organizations then created became known as the "Evangelical Empire." Passionate and practical reformist crusading by Lawyer-Preacher Charles G. Finney and his allies helped produce the early feminist movement, the Civil War and the abolition of slavery...
...this passionate sense of God's presence in everyday life. Mainstream Protestantism, though dutifully devoted to social reform, often seems drained of vitality. For years it undervalued a notable Evangelical asset, the kind of religious zeal that causes embarrassment but might work miracles. One critic of the Evangelicals. Activist Preacher William Sloane Coffin Jr., of New York City's Riverside Church, ruefully tells the story of the Evangelical who said. "You could ice skate down the center aisle of any New England church on Sunday morning." Concedes Coffin: "The warmth of the Evangelicals is all to the good...
Evangelicalism's practitioners are quick to defend themselves. Says Jim Bakker, high-pressure preacher of TV's P.T.L. (for People That Love) Club: "If Johnson Wax didn't have an identifiable name, how would one know to buy it?" An even bigger star, Billy Graham, mildly invokes the great Evangelicals of the past to defend the jet-setting and electronic gimmickry that have become a part of his calling. "John Wesley had to go on horseback. George Whitefield had to spend all that time crossing the Atlantic 13 times. They used to have to shout at the top of their...
...church last week, Haynes preached: "I don't know what they mean when they say, 'Chile, I've been goin' to church since I was a baby.' You may have a religious style, but it doesn't make you a Christian." That, in effect, is what 18th century Revival Preacher Jonathan Edwards used to tell the white folk of Massachusetts...
...develops that Leroy's wife has been made pregnant by a chicken-flickin' preacher. Leroy declares that vengeance will be his (more Sicilian tomato sauce) and sets out to seduce the preacher's wife. Pryor plays the preacher's role-essentially the same cash-unto-me evangelist he has done on television-with superbly lubricious piety, and also plays Leroy's father, an impressively dirty old man who should have been given more lines...