Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A typical Read sermon may begin with a quote from Humpty-Dumpty to Alice and turn on some apt lines from Samuel Johnson or Shakespeare as it wrestles with a timeless (but contemporary) problem using the perspectives of the Bible. "Scholarly content is terribly important," Read says, "but it shouldn...
Franklin Pollard, 45, First Baptist Church of Jackson, Miss. Pollard is very much in the evangelistic mainstream as preacher in a big church in the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's biggest denomination. He was raised in a Texas shack, one of seven children of a poor oilfield worker...
Though Davies' mother had a personal experience of Jesus-who talked to her when she was polishing the brass-Davies at first set out to be a lawyer. He switched to his present vocation only after working his way through the philosophical skepticism of the logical positivists rampant at...
The simplest moral of this quiet, affecting novel might be: Don't Read Tolstoy. John Strickland, 40, is a successful London barrister who casually picks up The Death of Ivan Ilych during an August retreat at the home of his wife's parents. The lawyer finds himself deeply...
A Married Man coasts over this pothole in its plot because of its cushion of intelligence and moral fastidiousness. Author Read is best known in the U.S. as the author of Alive, a nonfiction account of how some Uruguayan survivors of a plane crash in the Andes resorted to cannibalism...