Tell It, Brother Hill!
A visiting revivalist lays some eloquent preaching on Pasadena Baptists. Nearby in Houston, the festival of Purim gives templegoers good reason to dress up, drink up, and raise a ruckus.
From 1974 to 2014, William Martin wrote nearly ninety articles for Texas Monthly. He is the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rice University and Chavanne Senior Fellow at Rice’s Baker Institute, where he directs two programs, Religion and Public Policy and Drug Policy. After graduating from Abilene Christian University and Harvard Divinity School, he received his PhD from Harvard in 1969. During his 54 years at Rice, he has received numerous teaching awards, including a Lifetime Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is the author of seven books, including A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story, regarded as the authoritative biography of the famed evangelist; With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, the companion volume to a PBS miniseries of the same name; and My Prostate and Me: Dealing With Prostate Cancer. In addition to Texas Monthly, his writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper’s, and Esquire, as well as in professional journals. His reviews of religious services throughout the state (1979 to 1983 and 2006 to 2008) were the subject of a 60 Minutes segment in 1979. Bill and his wife, Patricia, divide their time between Houston and Wimberley.
A visiting revivalist lays some eloquent preaching on Pasadena Baptists. Nearby in Houston, the festival of Purim gives templegoers good reason to dress up, drink up, and raise a ruckus.
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Why do 61 million adult Americans say “pooh” to the pew?
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A Dallas rabbi says Christmas is a form of persecution for Jews; a Disciples of Christ pastor discusses suffering with equanimity.
The difference between jogging with the Lord and just walking along behind.
Joining God’s army at Berachah Church in Houston; joining the fine families of Beaumont’s Trinity United Methodist.
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A Lutheran pastor in New Braunfels challenges his congregation; a Methodist minister in Dallas soothes his.
Congregation Beth Israel in Houston remembers the Holocaust quietly; Allandale Baptist Church in Austin isn’t quiet about anything.
Will the Episcopalians inherit the Methodists and Baptists? Will the Pentecostals inherit some tact?
We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing; we chasten and hasten to tell you all about it.
Forget the church, forget the steeple, turn on the tube to see all the people.
All his life, the son learned from the father, but the most important lesson came at the end.
How a towheaded kid from North Carolina became God’s best salesman.
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What kind of man would establish a museum which exhibits a bottle of dust from the wings of model airplanes and 250,000 three cent stamps?
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Selling a herd of prime cattle can be tricky business. And it takes professionals to do it right.