Word: preaching
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...best preacher, religion writer David Van Biema consulted experts in many denominations and spent hours watching tapes, searching for the most electrifying proclaimer of the Gospel. "Many were terrific, but the [T.D.] Jakes tape affected me profoundly," he recalls. "When I got down to the Superdome to hear him preach in person, I found him amazing. It was the mastery and the beauty of the thing...
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...
William Bennett used to be the U.S. Secretary of Education, but today he travels the nation to preach the home-school gospel. "I'm here to talk about the revolution of common sense," he told a Denver home-schooling conference in June. Working himself up to promote K12, his slick, new, for-profit online school for home schoolers, Bennett even suggested that "maybe we should subcontract all of public education to home schoolers." It was strange to watch a man once responsible for federal aid to public schools urge people to desert them. Imagine if Colin Powell gave a speech...
...preach it every day and in every language. We fight every day to get the bad apple out," he said of those who try to take advantage of the company...
...schools accepted the clubs without hesitation, while others--afraid of blurring the line between church and state--refused. When the Milford Central School District in upstate New York barred the local club four years ago, its leader, the Rev. Stephen Fournier, fought back. If the Boy Scouts could preach their moral message in the K-12 school's convenient location, he asked, why couldn't the club? Fournier lost in the lower courts but hopes to win this last appeal in the nation's highest court...