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Despite their ambition, the revivals offer elements--"a whole series of sidesteps," says Christianity Today's Maudlin--that minimize their challenge to male dominance. Lotz has chosen not to be ordained; she calls herself a Bible expositor not a preacher, and Just Give Me Jesus is technically aimed at women. But if she performs as she's capable, all that will burn away. Sometimes when she speaks, she acknowledges, "It's like the fire falls, and the Lord just pours out," as happened with the prophet Elijah. "If a man walks in the door," at the revivals, she asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Preacher's Daughter | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

Until yesterday, few realized that E. Adam Webb was an authoritative expositor of Jewish values. And for good reason...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: Whose Religion Is It, Anyway? | 4/17/1991 | See Source »

...Hersey marked the first anniversary of atomic warfare with the most celebrated piece of journalism to come out of World War II. Hiroshima filled the magazine's entire August 31, 1946, issue. Published in hardcover soon after, the terse account of unnatural disaster established its author as a major expositor of big themes and public enlightenments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Awakening a Sleeping Giant the Call | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Born into a Baptist tradition of emotional fundamentalism. King acquired by education and temperament an intellectual theology of social activism. A member of the most alienated and oppressed group in American society, he was his generation's most eloquent expositor of the American Dream. Brought up among Atlanta's middle class Black elite he often found his strongest supporters and dearest friends among the South's poor Blacks. King combined within his person a host of conflicting traditions and ideals. His ability to embrace contradictions gave King his greatest strength as well as his greatest vulnerability...

Author: By Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, | Title: The Man Behind the Legend | 9/30/1982 | See Source »

This remarkable volume demonstrates that she was a great writer of another kind: a superb expositor of the self in the grand Gallic tradition of Montaigne, Rousseau and Ninon de Lenclos. From 2,000 pages of random reminiscences, which Colette published but never collected, Editor Robert Phelps has skillfully constructed a sort of accidental autobiography that reveals Colette as the richest character in her oeuvre-indeed, as one of the most extraordinary women of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Look! | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

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