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...November 19th of 1993, a brilliant and controversial presence passed quietly through Harvard square. As part of the Harvard Bookstore Lecture Series, philosopher, preacher and scholar Cornel West '74 spoke about his most recent book, Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America, at the Cambridge Public Library. West, currently a professor of religion and Afro-American Studies at Princeton University, will be joining the Afro-American Studies department here in the fall of 1994. He is known both for his academic accomplishments and for his activity as a community leader...
...when you're as close as we've been and haven't won the big games, people start wondering why," says F.S.U. head coach Bobby Bowden, with the long-suffering tone of a man who prowls the sidelines on Saturdays, then mounts a pulpit on Sundays as a lay preacher. "But the only way to answer their questions is to win." In October Bowden thought he had the answer. After three heartbreaking losses to Miami (on a failed two-point conversion and two late field goals that went wide right), Florida State becalmed the Hurricanes 28-10. Bowden...
...chaperoned chats in a public parlor. Between the rules and the course work, Graham soon found himself on the brink of expulsion and thought about transferring. The legendary Jones warned him about throwing his life away: "At best, all you could amount to would be a poor country Baptist preacher somewhere out in the sticks." Then he tempted him. "You have a voice that pulls," he told the young man. "God can use that voice of yours. He can use it mightily...
...counting on individuals to take up where he will one day leave off, sharing the good news. He has a list in his computer of 43,000 evangelists around the world, whom he visits when he travels or invites to training meetings. If he can inspire one preacher, who goes home and converts his family and neighbors, who in turn breathe new life into a gasping church, which shines new light on a lost city . . . who knows...
...Billy is asked, is he not the last of the big-time evangelists? "After D.L. Moody was finished, they said the same thing," the preacher says, "and after Billy Sunday they said the same thing, and after I'm finished they'll say the same thing. But God will raise up different ones who will do it far better than me." If so, that will truly be a miracle...