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...what you need to remember: let us love one another. As Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. said the other night, if you have got any hatred left in your heart, get down on your knees." He concluded by telling churchgoers that "you do not have to have a preacher. You do not even have to have a Sunday-school teacher. You just have to have a simple faith...
...current champion author is Billy Graham, whose most recent book, Angels, has sold a phenomenal 1.4 million copies in hardcover. While Preacher Graham helps a secular publisher (Doubleday) hit the Evangelical market, Jimmy Carter and Johnny Cash have turned to Evangelical houses to print their autobiographies (Why Not the Best? and Man in Black). Many best-selling authors, though, are virtually unknown outside the Evangelical circuit. Hal Lindsey, a onetime Jesus Movement leader, has sold more than 15 million books since 1970. His favorite theme: interpretation of Bible prophecies to prove that Jesus will soon return, most likely...
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a well-known writer well before Uncle Tom's Cabin made her rich and famous. For a time, she and her preacher husband Calvin Stowe were too poor to afford a servant. Mrs. Stowe ran her house, cared for her twin daughters (the first two of seven children), churned out genteel, folksy stories and religious essays to help make ends meet. Uncle Tom's Cabin changed all that. It was the first great American bestseller. In its initial year in print it sold 300,000 copies, and eventually more than 3 million American readers...
BARBARA JORDAN, 40, the Texas Congresswoman who will be the second keynoter. Daughter of a Baptist preacher in Houston, Lawyer Jordan won national attention with her solemnly impressive eloquence during the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings two years ago. As a black and a woman, she represents a new tide in politics, but she also plays old-fashioned politics with considerable skill...
...weather was forbidding as Lay Preacher Thomas Rankin arrived this Sunday at White's Chapel southwest of Petersburg, Virginia. He had planned to hold an open-air meeting, with shade trees shielding the congregation from the blazing southern sun. But it was raining, so he had to pack the worshipers into the chapel, while about 400 more clustered in the rain at the doors and windows. Then, as Rankin orated on Ezekiel's vision of the dry bones, the mixed crowd of whites and blacks began moaning and crying to God for mercy, some kneeling, some falling...