Word: reverend
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...Nagin, Riley and members of the City Council gravely watched Thursday as a succession of speakers, representing the city's various neighborhoods, railed against the violence and called on not only city leaders but citizens to do more to stop it. "We have come to lodge our complaint," growled Reverend John Raphael, Jr., pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Central City, one of the city's most crime-plagued neighborhoods. "We have come to declare that a city that could not be drowned in the floods of a storm will not be drowned in the blood of its citizens...
Americans have watched the downfall of Reverend Ted Haggard with a mixture of shock and, well, shock. The man who just one month ago was one of the nation’s most respected evangelical leaders, president of the 30 million strong National Association of Evangelicals, and one of the country’s most outspoken critics of homosexuality, seems to have been fibbing. In particular, he sparked some confusion late last month when a former male escort, Mike Jones of Denver, accused Haggard of having solicited sexual relations and narcotics from him multiple times over a three year period...
...that is precisely what is happening. According to Reverend Louis Sheldon, another champion of the Christian Right, in an interview with The Jewish Week, “[Haggard] said homosexuality is genetic. I said, no it isn’t. But I knew he was covering up. They need to say that.” Where could Haggard have gotten the kooky, left-wing impression that homosexuality was innate, not chosen? Probably from that kooky, left-wing thing called personal experience. Or does the Bible trump that...
...internal turmoil plaguing Hester. She convincingly conveyed the feelings of maternal affection, vulnerable emotion, and an air of weariness. The audience could not help but be drawn into Ayers’s performance and share in her apparent despair. Jon E. Gentry ’07, who doubled as Reverend D and Hester’s youngest son Baby, was the most engaging member of the cast. At Nov. 10 performance, during his “I have fallen and I can’t get up” sermon, members of the audience could even be heard facetiously clapping...
Religion: Reverend Gomes is one of the best professors I’ve had at Harvard, and any class with him is a good idea. Try Religion 42 “The Christian Bible” this semester, or hold out for his famous Harvard history course in the spring...