Famed as the place where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church attracts many visitors.
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Religion and Race: Can Megachurches Desegregate?
One Sunday last fall, Bill Hybels, founder and senior pastor at the Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago’s northwest suburbs, was preaching on the logic and power of Jesus’ words “Love thine enemy.” As is his custom, Hybels was working a small semicircle of easels arrayed behind his lectern, reinforcing key phrases. Hybels’ preaching is economical, precise of tone and gesture.
Education: THE CYNICAL IDEALISTS OF ’68
THE troubled and troublesome college Class of 1968 tends to have a sober, even tragic view of life. They were high school seniors in the year that John Kennedy, a politician who gained their trust and inspired their ambitions, was shot to death in Dallas.
Gadhafi delivers rambling U.N. tirade
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday delivered a lengthy, rambling address in his first appearance before the United Nations — slamming both the U.N. Security Council and the United States.
Judge troubled by King estate management, orders meeting
A judge expressed serious concern Friday about the way the estate of the Rev.
Folk singer Mary Travers dead at 72
Mary Travers of 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died, according to her publicist. She was 72.