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...Sunday last fall, Bill Hybels, founder and senior pastor at the Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago's northwest suburbs, was preaching on the logic and power of Jesus' words "Love thine enemy." As is his custom, Hybels was working a small semicircle of easels arrayed behind his lectern, reinforcing key phrases. Hybels' preaching is economical, precise of tone and gesture. Again by custom, he was dressed in black, which accentuated his pale complexion, blue eyes and hair, once Dutch-boy blond but now white. Indeed, if there is a whiter preacher currently running a megachurch, that man must glow...
...Such rapid change in such big institutions "blows my mind," says Emerson. Some of the country's largest churches are involved: the very biggest, Joel Osteen's Lakewood Community Church in Houston (43,500 members), is split evenly among blacks, Hispanics and a category containing whites and Asians. Hybels' Willow Creek is at 20% minority. Megachurches serve only 7% of American churchgoers, but they are extraordinarily influential: Willow Creek, for instance, networks another 12,000 smaller congregations through its Willow Creek Association. David Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame studying the trend, says that "if tens of millions...
...minutes of a town meeting in Willow Graves Estates we read that Zed (?) interrupts the meeting repeatedly to ask that the town board be dismantled and he be made president. Zed (?) is ignored. Zed (?) then motions to be put in charge. Zed (?) is not seconded, then denied. FlyBy wonders why this sounds vaguely familiar...
...private sector would pull the state from the abyss and toward a real recovery. Tragically, however, state and federal officials, beginning with taxer in chief Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, will continue to tax companies out of business and delay recovery in the Golden State. Dale Williams, Willow Park, Texas...
...selling CO2 emission offsets through the Climate Trust. Meanwhile, Vermont's Middlebury College is completing a central thermal biomass system that will provide heating and cooling, saving $2 million a year on fuel-oil bills, plus generating one-fifth of campus electrical-power needs. Middlebury is planting fast-growing willow shrubs on 10 acres, in the hopes that it will provide as much as half the woody fuels that are needed by the new system. Says Duke's Richter: "It's a technology whose time has come...