Word: preachers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't obtain creative control. An homage to the kid-show character H.R. Pufnstuf came close to being produced several times but still hasn't been made. And then there are the dozens of off-center biopic ideas that people are continually bringing them--baseball manager Billy Martin, TV preacher Gene Scott, sideshow freak Johnny Eck, pin-up girl Bettie Page...
...Eugene F. Rivers III, pastor of Boston's Azusa Christian Community church, is my kind of preacher: a former gang member with a Harvard education who has devoted himself to keeping ghetto kids out of trouble. He also believes it's his Christian duty to verbally slap the black establishment upside the head when it's falling down on its job. In 1992, for example, he infuriated black intellectuals by accusing them of endlessly debating "Gramsci, Foucault, Derrida, Jameson, Bourdieu, Lukacs, Habermas, and Marx" instead of trying to find solutions to inner-city crime and drug abuse. Three years later...
...despite his popular image, Gomes and many of those around him see him as a preacher first and foremost. And, after 25 years at the helm of the Memorial Church, the Plummer professor of Christian morals is uniquely attuned to the spiritual heartbeat of the campus he loves...
...absentee preacher," he says...
Thomas said Marius--the author of biographies on Thomas More and Martin Luther, and a trained Southern preacher--had a background that made him a skilled orator...