... was very close to the Convention Center. The minister, named Dr. Robert L. Abernathy, gets into a discussion with a somewhat inebriated delegate who ... DESPITE ALL THE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY AND ALL THE HUMAN EFFORTS TO PREVENT IT. Will Campbell, a voice of great insight and conscience from the South for the church, tells the story ... . and hardly anybody could get into the United States of America from Mexico and Canada. Finally, J. Edgar Hoover sent out a memo saying he meant the borders on the new memo pads ...
... Practice of Wisdom: A Topical Guide to Proverbs (Chicago: Moody Press, 1992), p. 11. 2 Jack VanImpe and Roger F. Campbell, Alcohol: the Beloved Enemy (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1980). 3 Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World (Nashville: ... ., p. 51. 22 Schiller, p. 49. 23 Nashville Tennessan, August 14, 1984. 24 Robert B. Fischer, "Muddled in Moderation," Moody Monthly, May, 1989, p. 10. 25 Ibid. 26 William J. Bennett, The Devaluing of America (New York: Summit Books, 1992), p. 118. 27 Land ...
... informed my mind and added muscle and music to my faith: Loren Eiseley, Thomas Merton, Halford Luccock, Reinhold Niebuhr, Frederick Buechner, Walter Brueggemann, C. S. Lewis, Robert McAfee Brown, Ernest Fremont Tittle, John Sutherland Bonnell, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Howard Thurman, Samuel Miller, David H. C. Read, Joseph Ford Newton, Ernest Campbell, William Sloane Coffin, John Henry Jouette, Ernest Gordon, and Abraham Heschel. I wish these lists included the Afro-American preachers (whom we know are among the ...
... Miserable Ones. "It's a sad and significant commentary on religious experience," writes Penelope J. Stokes. "We are The Miserable Ones, the people who have no sense of humor ... others. And the change can be radical. By the age of fourteen, Percy Campbell had racked up 39 felonies on his criminal record. News reporters dubbed him, "Crime Boy," and a ... lost cause." Percy's crimes finally landed him in an adult court, where Judge Robert Carney sentenced him to a term at the Last Chance Ranch, a program ...
