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Jeff Daniels clunks around in a despairingly mediocre role as Opal’s father, a man known solely as the Preacher. He pines for his former wife, who left the family when Opal was three, and works too much to have time for his daughter. As the weary and well-meaning father and parishioner of a convenience store-turned-Baptist church, he dispenses lines such as, “There’s nothing wrong with making church more convenient,” with forced chuckles to his meager congregation...
...visiting my girlfriend for the holidays, so the preacher didn’t know me well enough to get me in on the action. As a Jew from the Southwest, this brand of Southern Christianity was new to me. But sitting in the pews and watching Brashear do his thing, I wanted to be a part of this congregation. I wanted to be prodded and made fun of and forced to participate. I wanted to be such an important part of the community that the pastor needed my “amen...
...Mississippian, and two white New Yorkers, Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, came to symbolize white resistance to the "Freedom Summer" campaign to register black voters. The case shocked much of the country and later inspired the 1988 Gene Hackman film Mississippi Burning. Yet neither Killen, called the "Preacher" by locals, nor other Klansmen ever faced state murder charges. And most, including Killen, beat federal civil rights--violation charges in a 1967 trial in which one member of the all-white jury insisted she could never convict a man of God like the Preacher...
...career as a fiery Dorchester preacher and national leader in the black movement, Rivers has returned to Harvard countless times to speak on issues ranging from the AIDS pandemic in Africa to the economic power of the black community in the United States...
...this season's postelection pulse taking, morality re-emerged as a top voter concern. But it has been a consistent theme for the Rev. Billy Graham, 86, preacher to millions over six decades and counselor to 10 Presidents. TIME's Sonja Steptoe caught up with him as he embarked on what will probably be his final round of crusades, beginning last weekend at the Rose Bowl...