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Joe Grimaud
THE STATE PAPEPR REPORTS ...
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1997-05-19. Page A1, State, The (Columbia, SC) State, The (Columbia, SC) 1997-05-19
Section: FRONT
Edition: FINAL
Page: A1
EVANS PLEADS FOR RACIAL HARMONY ‘UNTIL WE FIX OUR FOUNDATION, WE WILL FOR- EVER BE DOING PATCHWORK ON OUR CULTURAL WALL’ CAROLYN CLICK and ALLISON ASKINS, StaffWriters
They arrived in Sunday suits and dresses, in T-shirts and jeans, clutching babies and well- worn Bibles. They were black and white, Asian and Hispanic, eager to hear how to apply the Christian faith to a world divided byracialandethnicconflict. TheRev.Tony Evansdidnotdisappoint. TheDallasevan- gelist exhorted Columbia Sunday night to repair America’s crumbling cultural founda- tion by turning to God and find common ground.
“There is pain in our hearts, pain in our
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Gladys Grimaud
WE HAVE LOST OUR MARBLES
“Oh no! Not again!” These were my words, and
no doubt the words of many Americans, as they heard the tragic news of the assassi- nations in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The young male shooter entered the church under pretense...pretense that he was one of them and wanted to be a part of the Bible study. The Bible refers to such a one as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”, pre- tending to have the same Christian motive of learning more about Christ but actually having an evil heart. Now, everyone is ana- lyzing, “What happened? Why?’ Doctors are giving their diagnosis that he was men- tally deranged... and make no mistake...he was that, but isn’t it about time we identify the evil that deranged him instead of excus-
Those who call evil good and good evil have lost their marbles! Jesus boldly called Satan out one day as He responded to a group of religious leaders who were trying to trap Him and get Him killed. He clearly showed them that it was all about the heart and who
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ing every act of evil with a medical term?
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