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...insults kids to suggest that simply watching Characters Behaving Badly onscreen means they'll take that as permission to do the same themselves. The fact that Glee is about a club full of misfits already makes it ripe gospel ground; Jesus was not likely to be sitting at the cool kids' table in the cafeteria. And it's set in high school, meaning it's about a journey not just to college and career but to identity and conviction, the price of popularity, the compromises we must make between what we want and what we need...
...adds that there is much to unite African Americans around their faith, including gospel music and an upbeat preaching style. On this point, Thomas agreed...
...where the school was housed to find it surrounded by black-uniformed Gestapo. Soon after, he shut it down for good and made for the U.S., where Gropius, the Alberses and Moholy-Nagy would also end up as hugely influential teachers and practitioners. The Bauhaus was gone, but its gospel would go on. Decades later, Tom Wolfe would call his lightheartedly reactionary takedown of modernism From Bauhaus to Our House. No matter what you think of the book, you can't say he didn't get the title right...
...times as many people said relationships had gotten better as said they'd gotten worse. "This is one of those moments when everything is on the table, up for grabs," says Carl Honoré, whose book Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting is a gospel of the slow-parenting movement. He likens the sudden awareness to the feeling you get when you wake up after a long night carousing, the lights go on, and you realize you're a mess. "That horrible moment of self-recognition is where we are culturally. I wanted parents...
...boom times, wooing millions with the message that, as he says, "God wants you to have a big life" - or, as his critics put it, God wants you to be rich. When the financial crisis hit, some analysts blamed preachers of the so-called Prosperity Gospel for helping bring it on - and predicted that their churches' popularity would tank along with parishioners' portfolios. But Osteen, at least, is going strong: donations at Lakewood Church in Houston, where he is senior pastor, are steady. Attendance is up 10%. He preached to a sold-out Yankee Stadium in April...