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...OAKHURST PRESBYTERIAN Church, there's a black Jesus in front, a white Jesus in back and folks of both colors in between. The black Jesus depicted on a stained-glass window in front used to be white, but the pastor of Oakhurst, the Rev. Gibson Stroupe, and his wife Caroline Leach tinted the once pink portrait brown. Both Leach and Stroupe are white, and she admits "we did get some flak" for the racial alteration. There were those who thought Oakhurst was caving in to the dogmatizers of diversity, the whistle blowers of melanin management. Some chose to leave...
...black woman got up to say she believes in miracles because the last of several boys in her family was graduating from college, despite the fact that so many young black men are on drugs, in jail or dead. Stroupe also changed Oakhurst's music, switching from stiffer Presbyterian hymns to songs from the black gospel tradition. At first the choir director resisted, purposefully playing off tune during gospel hymns. Now the church has its own mostly black gospel choir. No one in it knows how to read music, but they learn songs "by ear" and sing them from...
...prize catch," writes Griffith of the 26-year-old Harvard graduate who had gone to China as a flack for Chiang in his battles against both the Japanese army and the communist legions, led by Mao Zedong. Both those struggles were holy wars for Luce, the son of Presbyterian missionaries in China. White was indeed a prize who would go on to become perhaps the greatest journalist of his time, chronicling (mostly in books written after his tenure at TIME, from 1941 to 1946) the wars and corruptions of Chiang and Mao, the postwar rebuilding of Europe and the making...
...quest for an understanding of miracles is by no means confined to Catholic pilgrims or Protestant Fundamentalists or New Age stargazers. Author Dan Wakefield, a lapsed Presbyterian turned Unitarian, sometime TV scriptwriter and now itinerant theological investigator, has just finished a book, Expect a Miracle (to be published by HarperSanFrancisco next month). He was amazed by what he learned. "We all read these silly things, the man who saw the Virgin on the fender of his Dodge Dart,'' he says. "What I found, which is more interesting, is people you'd think of as very conservative...
...gathered in a hotel conference room near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. They had come to hammer out a common strategy, but by the time the two-day session ended, the group had suffered a permanent rift over the murder of Gunn 13 months earlier. Hill, a defrocked Presbyterian minister, had arrived in Chicago with a petition, signed by more than 30 activists, that called the shooting justified. Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue, which was once considered the radical wing of the antiabortion movement, spoke against the attack and later confronted Hill. "For the cause of Christ...