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...Armstrong, a Presbyterian conservative who has run the N.R.B. during two decades of astounding growth, boasts that his colleagues have "done what Ted Turner tried to do and Rupert Murdoch wants to do--create an alternative fourth network." The video preachers are often bitter competitors behind their on-camera smiles, yet Armstrong contends they constitute a network nonetheless, one defined by a shared viewpoint. To the dismay of more liberal Protestants, not to mention Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders, the people who have seized spiritual control of the tube are unremittingly Evangelical or Fundamentalist. Four of the top stars...
...Pittsburgh, Thomas Gaidosh, 47, a burly, 6-ft. 3-in. factory worker and father of two, languished in his hospital bed last month, struggling for his life. For weeks, doctors at Presbyterian-University Hospital had been searching for a donor heart to replace his debilitated one. Time was running out. Across the state, in the chocolate capital of Hershey, Anthony Mandia, 44, was losing a similar battle. Mandia, a Philadelphia recreation-center director, had a history of coronaries, and now his heart was deteriorating rapidly, but no donor could be found. On the West Coast, Richard Dallara, 33, an auto...
Outside the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, some 50 miles from the Mexican border, the Rev. John Fife nailed up a neatly painted sign that reads: THIS IS A SANCTUARY FOR THE OPPRESSED FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. Fife is now facing the consequences of that proclamation. This week he and an ecumenical group of ten others, including two Roman Catholic priests and a nun, will go on trial in Tucson on charges of conspiring to transport and shelter Central American aliens. If they are found guilty, the sentences on the conspiracy charges could be as severe as five years in prison...
...some Sanctuary activists, morality can override politics. Gary Cook, associate pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Massillon, Ohio, says, "We're a very conservative group of folks politically. But once we encountered the refugees face to face, we couldn't justify not taking them in." Notes the Rev. William Sloane Coffin of Riverside Church in New York City: "We don't apologize for the political aspect. God is concerned not just with your sins and my sins, but with the sins of the nation...
...threatened by the amount, intensity and graphic persuasiveness" of violence and sexual violence on television. The prime concern: cable TV. The document was based on a two-year study by Editor James Wall of the Chicago-based Christian Century and a panel including communications officials from Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian and United Methodist churches and the United Church of Christ. The group concluded that research shows an "undeniable" correlation between media violence and aggressive behavior. Among its recommendations: mandatory ratings and descriptions of violent content in program promotion, lockboxes for cable installations so parents can control viewing, and separate channels...