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Perhaps as it rejoins the respectable mainstream of Protestantism, success will spoil Evangelicalism. University of Chicago Theologian Martin Marty is put off by the self-indulgent Good Life of the reborn. "You may have to give up some drinking if you are born again, but you will eat well to make up for it. American businessmen are offered justification for their successful lives. Even religious TV comes over like a nightclub, with women in long dresses with decollete...
...question, which may determine whether or not the new Evangelicals eventually change the balance of power in U.S. Protestantism, is what they will do collectively with this passionate sense of God's presence in everyday life. Mainstream Protestantism, though dutifully devoted to social reform, often seems drained of vitality. For years it undervalued a notable Evangelical asset, the kind of religious zeal that causes embarrassment but might work miracles. One critic of the Evangelicals. Activist Preacher William Sloane Coffin Jr., of New York City's Riverside Church, ruefully tells the story of the Evangelical who said. "You could ice skate...
...MAINTAINED a very romantic image of activists during my childhood. They were gypsies of a sort, living on the fringes of society and constantly reminding the mainstream of its wrongs. Their protests against war, against racism, against injustices of all kinds were justifiable. Who wouldn't want to eliminate these evils? Yet, the demonstrators were always wrong in the eyes of many adults I knew; they were contemptuously described as "hippies," "radicals," and "subversives." The idea that these people were not exactly right with the establishment only intensified my admiration of them, since, at age 13, I was carrying...
Analysts praise Finkelstein and crew for slipping Macy's into the modern mainstream of U.S. retailing, and for brightening an important slice of a weary urban America. Financially, the effort is paying off. Business this year-boosted by Sunday openings-could reach nearly $200 million, up more than 10% from last year. Finkelstein anticipates a record Christmas. That speaks loudly to other retailers again looking at once-laggard Macy's Herald Square. It has something to show off these days...
...this time he had attracted a core of committed disciples who interpreted the refusal of mainstream scientific journals to publish articles by him (a stance often extended to advertisements for his books) as evidence for a grand anti-Velikovsky conspiracy...