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...encourage a therapeutic emphasis on pastoral care." When it came to preaching, as opposed to social activism and counseling, the mainline churches lost their faith, lost a whole generation. The Bible became just one more sourcebook, like the daily paper. Even in the megachurches, with thousands of members and vast resources, the sermon sometimes seemed like one more offering in the Christian cafeteria, wedged between the 12-step programs and the music and Sunday school and countless fellowship activities...
...diversified. Her work on the several homes of hip-hop entrepreneur Andre Harrell is masculine, bold and warm. She uses classic pieces but freshens them with brazen upholstery or colors. The home she made for Eileen and Peter Norton, of Norton Utilities fame, is more eclectic, incorporating the Nortons' vast and pluralistic art collection, but it's not jumbled. She knew their home could withstand the iconic force of Frank Gehry and Marcel Wanders chairs. This year she decorated President Bill Clinton's new offices in Harlem with surprisingly modern furniture and light colors. "Very soothing," she says...
...preachers like Graham whose gift is to grab hold of the hearts of the unchurched and launch them on a journey into faith. But it is one thing to inspire a moment of conversion; it is another to escort you, week after week, all the way home. The vast majority of preachers do their work in sanctuaries, not stadiums, before hundreds of listeners every week, not tens of thousands once a year. And for them, who are judged not only in the pulpit but also at the bedside, in the classroom, at the meeting, in the soup kitchen, how much...
...word in politics and business, but in the realm of music it has a nice ring to it--and a funky beat, and a tantalizing groove. Today musicians and listeners the world over are plugged into one another via the Internet, TV and ubiquitous recordings. The result is a vast electronic bazaar through which South African kwaito music can make pulses pound in Sweden, or Brazilian post-mambo can set feet dancing in Tokyo. Cultures are borrowing the sounds of other cultures, creating vibrant hybrids that are then instantly disseminated around the globe to begin the blending process all over...
...point seldom range above 2,000. But those men are extremely well-trained, well-funded and have shown a fanatical willingness to die in order to inflict pain on their enemies. Technology and globalization have made their reach almost boundless, and they are linked to a vast network of terrorist groups throughout the Muslim world from western China and the Philippines all the way across to Algeria...