Rev johnnie coleman biography of abraham
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When Johnnie Hobgood Coleman was born on 5 September 1878, in Lauderdale, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States, her father, Jerry Allen Coleman, was 27 and her mother, Mary Frances Hobgood, was 22. She had at least 1 daughter with Joshua H. Pickett. She lived in Beat 5, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States for about 30 years. She died on 10 September 1949, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mount Horeb, Covington, Mississippi, United States.
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The pandemic has “grounded” faculty at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas. Many normally travel regularly for lectures, conferences and other speaking opportunities — most of which were cancelled in 2020. But, if there’s a silver lining, the pandemic sparked a move toward virtual programming, dissolving constraints of geography, eliminating the cost of travel, and sparking innovative projects and collaborations.
In many ways, Perkins faculty members have expanded their reach and connected with new audiences. Since the pandemic closed down travel in March 2020, Perkins faculty have preached, lectured, led webinars and taught virtually overseas and across the U.S. Marcell Silver Steuernagel preached via Zoom to virtual gatherings based in Norway and Brazil. Sze-kar Wan preached via Zoom to the congregation at his previous church, First Baptist of Newton, Mass., from Taiwan, while on sabbatical there.
Faculty also found innovative ways to collaborate. Ruben Habito guided thea
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Most people probably don’t know it but, long before Black Muslim Minister Louis Farrakhan began to make news for baiting Jews, he was a popular professional calypso performer known as “the Charmer.”
Before that, he was a child violinist who performed impressively on the “Ted Mack Amateur Hour” in 1946 when he was only about 13.
Now the controversial Nation of Islam head says he hopes his music will have enough charm to smooth relations between blacks and Jews.
Surrounded by his bodyguards, he surprised the audience after an April 17 orchestral concert in Winston-Salem, N.C., conducted by Michael Morgan, assistant conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, by walking onstage and playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.
And he wasn’t half-bad, either. A New York Times critic allowed that, although Farrakhan makes mistakes and can be erratic occasionally, his sound fryst vatten “wide, deep and full of the energy that makes the violin gleam.”