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Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson.
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Seventy years ago, most Americans knew something about Aimee Semple McPherson, the Canadian-born evangelist who had become something of an American celebrity. Newspapers everywhere reported her comings and goings, and her radio station in Los Angeles beamed her voice to millions. She had a genius for publicity, a magnetic personality, and a reassuringly familiar evangelical message.
Daniel Mark Epstein, a Jewish novelist, poet, and mystic, has written an appreciative biography that relies heavily on McPherson's own stories about herself and others. Noting that most ...
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Suburb board votes to bar Jesus film - sight unseen
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...film "the most reverent cinematic production I have ever witnessed." According to Thompson, a dream sequence during the crucifixion that depicts Jesus and Mary Magdalene making love "is part of his last temptation," which is overcome.
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Canada: Jobs bars 3G Jesus Phone sales at Canuck Apple Stores.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo
; Byline: ismail05 On Friday, the 3G Jesus Phone makes its debut in 22 countries across...monthly service plans for the reborn Jesus Phone start at $60 Canadian a month for...by diverting large shipments of Canadian Jesus Phones to Europe. Word is that the Canadian...
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Belief Behind Bars: A Muscular 'Jesus'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Round House's "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" is a superior...dramatic portraitist, Tennessee Williams; "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" puts you in mind...The rendering of the prisoners in "Jesus," Escamilla's comically misguided Angel...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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CHRISTMAS BEHIND BARS; BISHOP SAYS JESUS CAN "BRIGHTEN THE DARK CORNERS' OF LIVES.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; ...Here they had a child, a child born in a stable. "This Jesus is able to brighten the dark corners of our own lives," Moynihan...gets out of jail. "I've had plenty of Christmases behind bars," said Buffington. "That's nothing I'm particularly...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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He's HIV, and positive; A United Methodist minister who is gay and has lived with HIV for 18 years spends night after night in a dark and noisy Minneapolis bar bringing the love of Jesus to gays, lesbians and transgendered people.(NEWS)(FAITH & VALUES)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...background and knew the Bible well. "One night he came into the bar and grabbed me and pulled me aside to a quiet corner. `I just...We talked for a long time and were the last two out of the bar that night. Then he turned to me and said, `Tim, does God...
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Jesus' Bar Mitzvah.(This Way Out)(Cartoon)
Magazine article from: Esquire
; Ouch. Could that robe be any more 70 B.C.? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dad paid more than a million shekels for famous celebreties to make an appearance. Me with the poet Ovid, the giant Goliath, and a member of Aerosmith! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We hired out-of-work actors to dress as lepers and hand
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Grit & Gospel; Lowell Lundstrom set out to be a country singer, but changed his tune to gospel music because he couldn't picture Jesus in a bar band. Now, after 40 years as a traveling guitar-pickin' evangelist, he's settling in the Twin Cities.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...gospel band and down-home preaching. "Give your heart to Jesus," he often tells audiences. "Try him for six months. If...near-fatal car accidents, Lundstrom surrendered his heart to Jesus on a spring night in Connie's little Dakota church. It wasn...
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Nativity Jesus ends up in a bar
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...BELLEVILLE, Ill. The police found Jesus at a bar and grill. "We were just borrowing...was charged with taking the baby Jesus figurine from a nativity display...like, `Hey, let's take baby Jesus out for a drink and see if he could...
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Court Bars School From Displaying Portrait of Jesus
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Michigan school district was rebuffed Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court in its plea for permission to display a painting of Jesus Christ. Without comment, the justices unanimously let stand lower court rulings against Bloomingdale High School, where the...
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Memorable memoirs.(Jesus Land: A memoir)(The Tender Bar)(The Boy Who Fell out of the Sky)(The Glass Castle)(Father Joe)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Teacher Librarian
; Grades 9-12 Jesus land: A memoir, Julia Scheeres. Counterpoint Press, 2005. $23.00...Republic, this startling memoir takes an unexpected turn. The tender bar. J. R. Moehringer. Hyperion, 2005. $23.95. 1-401-30064...
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