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...Klingensmith's junior year at Woodrow Wilson H.S.--a preacher from England arrived at the United Methodist Temple, and began to preach "marvelous fiery sermons," drawing big crowds on three consecutive nights. Each evening, while the sweat cooled on his brow, the minister held question-and-answer sessions with the congregation. "I would go and just sit," Klingensmith remembers. "As I was walking out of church one night the preacher accosted me, and told me he was God's messenger to me and that I was going to be a minister. I said, 'Well, what if I don't want...
Proof exists, in the admissions office file marked Klingensmith, of his longstanding plan to become, a preacher. "I wanted to be a minister before I came here, but I had also always been interested in pure academic studies. I came to Harvard specifically because I wanted to study Reformation history." He might have gone to Dartmouth, except that "Harvard had tutorials," and, "having grown up wearing Harvard sweatshirts. I thought this would be the place...
Moyers, given unprecedented leeway at CBS, is a different matter. Bright, ambitious and articulate, he set out to be a Baptist preacher, became Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, and has built up a considerable television following, almost a cult, for his documentaries. At 47, he is on the way to becoming a formidable asset for CBS, but riskily so in ways that he and CBS may not realize. His documentary 3½ weeks ago, on Reagan's poverty victims, was powerful stuff and drew a Reagan demand for a half-hour reply. CBS refused. Critics have sought...
...engaged in life rather than in the electronic propagation of plastic virtue. The service is outdoors, in a Chicago park. In the background, a chain-link fence rises as though to shield the playground and the worshippers from the graffiti scrawled on the buildings across the street. As the preacher hums and sways, a police car cruises slowly through the camera's field of view, like a large blue and white fish swimming in a bowl. Most of the crowd is submerged in the music...
...moral issue of his lifetime, the civil rights movement. Billy Graham came to Harvard this week. Memorial Church was one stop on the evangelist's tour of New England, one more evening in an endless stream of come-to-the-Lord nights for, barring the Pope, the most popular preacher on this planet. But his stream is not unchanging, every night has not been the same. The sermon he gave Wednesday was a stop too on an intellectual and ethical pilgrimage for Graham, a lifelong journey from what he was to what he will become...