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Another factor that may have caused some church members to sour on Edwards was his adoption of a year-old "non-Caucasian" baby. A New York Times reporter quoted Billy Carter as saying of the adoption: "It was 99% of the preacher's problem. If you ask me, some of those Christians ought to be thrown to the lions." Billy later said that he had been "sort of misquoted. Most Plains residents dismissed Billy's charge. "He was just poppin' off," said one woman. "Why, the wife of the head of the board of deacons...
...front of the throne is a podium, where, it seems, the Lord is supposed to stand as he hands down his final judgements. It is interesting to think about what Hampton had in mind when he designed this podium... Perhaps he was equating the last judgement to a preacher's hell-fire sermon from a pulpit...
...innocent face is seamed now, although the eyes remain as ingenuous as ever. The preacher's son from Georgia chews tobacco and affects barracks language-acceptable, almost required vices in an old pro. The once idyllic Tarkenton marriage faltered this season when Wife Elaine moved to Atlanta with their three children. He is a millionaire several times over, a self-made corporate presence who teaches industrial motivation to some of the largest firms in the U.S. So often do interviewers seek him out for his incisive football mind and for his sophisticated, glib delivery (still tinged with a Southern...
...Hand. Though millions of people are "extremely hostile" to Christian missionary work, said John Stott, the best-known Evangelical preacher in the Church of England, it is "neither an unwarranted intrusion into other people's privacy, nor a regrettable Christian deviation, nor the hobby of a few eccentric enthusiasts, but a central feature of the historical purpose of God." After absorbing such inspirational addresses, the students visited recruiting booths set up by 125 Protestant mission boards and attended workshops ranging from "Trends in Linguistics" to "The Hand of God in Black History...
...President Harry Truman was saved from haberdashing by failure, Jimmy Carter was saved from peanut farming by success. Angels of ambition -Admiral Rickover's "Why not the best?", a Baptist preacher's contempt for spare-time religion, his engineer's want to shape things so they are right, a touch of anger at the neighborhood's black-baiters-wrestled him out of the warehouse and into wider fields...