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...years she had seemed unable to avoid the glare of publicity. Thus it came as a surprise when word leaked that Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke, 58, has for two years sung as a chorister in an almost all-black gospel choir in Nutley, New Jersey's First Baptist Church. Along with the other 100 members of the Angelic Choir, Doris goes to Friday-night choir practice, tours along with the gospelers, and occasionally invites them all up to her 2,500-acre estate in Somerville. "We know Doris is a millionaire," said Pastor Lawrence Roberts. "But all those...
...applause at her debut last week as the dirty-mouthed whore in The Owl and the Pussycat at Atlanta's Alliance Theater. The story line did not seem to bother her mother Coretta. But Grandfather Martin Luther King Sr. and the more conservative members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church were outraged. Yolanda managed to mollify them. "Though I didn't like the language," she said, "I felt that the play had something very important to say: that we can all learn from each other, black or white, rich or poor, saints or sinners-and that we all need...
Wayne E. Oates had been an addict for nearly 30 years when he managed to kick his habit in 1966. Oates, a professor of the psychology of religion at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., had been hooked not by drugs or alcohol but by what he calls "workaholism-the uncontrollable need to work incessantly." Now, convinced that his old sickness is a common and crippling affliction, he has recounted his experiences for the benefit of other sufferers in a newly published book, Confessions of a Workaholic (World...
...familiar roots. One of the nation's successful young evangelists, Richard Hoag, 24, believes that many of his youthful converts see Jesus as a marvelous father figure. "The kids are searching for authority, love and understanding?ingredients missing at home. Jesus is what their fathers aren't." Adds Baptist Pastor John Bisagno: "I'm amazed at how many people I've counseled who have never heard their fathers say 'I love...
...First Baptist Church in Houston, youth-minded Pastor Bisagno, 37, brought in Evangelist Hoag to recruit the young in a week-long revival. Hoag traveled from school to school with his plea, and 11,000 young people stepped forward at Bisagno's church to declare themselves for Jesus. Now the first few pews at First Baptist are reserved for the youngsters. While the rest of the congregation mumble their amens, the kids punctuate Bisagno's sermons with yells of "Outta sight...