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...says, "there is also an element of the preacher's. You are taking something you firmly believe and trying to impart it to others." The past 25 years have been a time of phenomenal growth for museums, especially in cities outside the old money circles of the Northeast and Chicago. No other curator has taken advantage of this opportunity with more panache than Tucker. In 1976, when she arrived at the Houston MFA, it was a museum with fewer photographs than you probably have on your refrigerator. Thanks to her canny shopping and her charms as a donor magnet--plus...
Part of what stokes Jakes enthusiasts is the extravagant celebratory bounty of black Pentecostal preaching. "When it comes to rhetoric," says Paige Patterson, a leader in the predominantly white Southern Baptist Convention, "the best Anglo preachers on their best days don't preach as well as a good black preacher on his worst day." Regarding Holy Spirit-soaked Pentecostalism, one might add, More so. With its improvisatory electricity, ornate call-and-response cues and dramatic eruptions of prophesying or speaking in tongues, it is an unrivaled preacher's toolbox. The style is increasingly popular in non-Pentecostal black denominations...
...janitorial business, developed a kidney ailment and died slowly over the next five years. The son comforted his mother and mopped blood from around the dialysis machine. The experience, which he terms "living between life and death," seems to have engendered a kind of fearless openness. As a preacher, Jakes takes on still-taboo topics like physical and sexual abuse and the shame of incarceration with a cathartic and psychologically acute explicitness. (Speaking to 64,000 women in New Orleans recently, he flatly broached a mother's nightmare: "You got a problem with your child. It's been 10 years...
Would everybody shout? There is a huge difference between being America's best preacher and America's Preacher, Graham's unofficial title for decades. In fact, that category may have evaporated, given today's cultural landscape and absent Graham's singular attributes. He is a white man in a country that understood itself, myopically, as white. He is a Protestant in a nation that was more aware of its Protestant roots than its growing diversity. A Baptist, he preaches a Gospel message so pure as to elude denominational criticism. He is expert at minimizing personal or philosophical particularities that would...
...theology. Jakes has called homosexuality a "brokenness" and says he would not hire a sexually active gay person. It is a common position among conservative religious leaders (Graham, for instance, called homosexuality a sin), but gay Americans would have no reason at all to consider Jakes their preacher...