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...During a morning service, a rose was placed on the altar at the beginning of the ceremony to signify a joyous event, but Forry, who thought O’Donnell would wait until after graduation to get engaged, thought nothing of the symbol. She was shocked to hear the preacher offer his congratulations on a congregation member’s engagement and see O’Donnell stroll down the aisle, clad in a tuxedo. “She was crying when she saw me,” he says. “She couldn’t believe...
After Gomes’ speech, the preacher presented a box containing a gift for Lewis...
When I attended, the preacher would announce, "The former heavyweight champion of the world George Foreman wants to tell you how he met Jesus Christ." I would get up and tell my story, and they would applaud and cry hallelujah. Mostly, they just gawked. "Oh, he's tall," they would say. Or, "He's got muscles." I felt like a sideshow...
...There have been some hiccups though. Last week, 46 imams from mosques all across Saudi Arabia were sacked from their posts. They had crossed the line. "It's inappropriate for preachers to convey to the faithful political or news reports in their sermons, as the preacher should be neither a broadcaster nor a journalist," explained the Islamic Affairs Minister Sheikh Saleh Al-Sheikh...
ASSASSINATION TANGO. Robert Duvall’s career as a film actor reads like a smorgasbord of human types; he’s played a surf-crazy colonel in Apocalypse Now, a conformist tightass in MASH, a fire-spitting preacher in The Apostle and everybody in between. He lets his feet do some of the talking as he stars in Assassination Tango, a dance-tinged character study armed with a title that explains its plot with TV Guide-caliber brevity (Duvall’s an assassin, and he tangos!). Duvall’s aging hitman, his hair yanked back...