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...from the Koran in Arabic and confine their sermons to the mosque, Aa Gym is unique. The flamboyant 40-year-old spreads his message of self-control, personal morality, tolerance and faith with televangelistic theatrics. Although Islam is the granite base on which his message rests, Aa Gym's sermons tend to dwell on the practicalities of daily life rather than the hazy hereafter. His stock-in-trade includes greeting-card clichEs, self-help nostrums and pithy doses of advice on how to cope with the challenges of child rearing, on succeeding in business (his three-day management seminars, costing...
Shaping adult minds required a more entrepreneurial approach, and LaHaye began writing self-help books. Eventually he hit every conceivable publishing fad: sex advice (including 1976's The Act of Marriage, a blockbuster that declared "the husband's use of clitoral manipulation" to be godly); How to Win over Depression (1974); Anger Is a Choice...
...written more than 80 novels). Instead, LaHaye has spent most of his life spreading his view of Christ and fighting for conservative principles, often through nonfiction. Very often--LaHaye has had 51 nonfiction books published, an eclectic mix of theology (for example, the forthcoming Merciful God of Prophecy), self-help (I Love You, but Why Are We So Different?, 1991) and psychology (Spirit-Controlled Temperament...
Alan L. Gleitsman, who established the foundation, called this year’s honorees—actor and human rights advocate Mike Farrell and self-help residential center founder Mimi Silbert—“citizens extraordinaire...
Silbert, the co-founder, president, chair and CEO of the Delancey Street Foundation, a San Francisco self-help residential facility for drug addicts, prostitutes, felons, and other prisoners, told the audience she was a mere “pass-through...