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April 16, 1997 » T he P oru
Helen Baylor has seen and expe
rienced from the bottom to the top.
and, by the grace ofG od, lived to tell
and sing o f it all Her last album and
video, The Live Experience, cata
pulted her for the first time to the top
o f the contemporary Christian charts
and saw her return to familiar terri
tory as well, holding the top 1 spot
on the Billboard Gospel charts un
der virtual lock and key for months
Featuring 11 ot her best loved
songs, and a compelling personal
testimony, it succeeded in making
Helen a household name in Chris
tian music. And with her newest
release. Love Brought Me Back, the
music and the message only grew
songs and Helen ’s vocals-both com
manding and c a re ssin g -if s still the
heart behind the music that speaks
HELEN BAYLOR
most powerfully.
“There were so many moments
when it was just me alone with that
microphone,” Helen recalls, “and it
was nothing but the Holy Spirit car
rying things to a level beyond any
thing 1 could achieve on my own.
We did a version o f "A m azing
Grace,” and on my vocal intro a
sound came out that was straight
from my childhood in the Pentecos
tal church. 1 couldn’t replicate it
now if 1 tried. It just poured out.
“On “The Lord Is My shepherd,”
my voice was scratchy and a little
tired, but as I sang, the true meaning
o f that scripture just began to well up
within me. By strict standards, the
performance could be called less
than perfect, but the anointing was
there and powerful. You can be tech
nically perfect all day long, but that
anoint in g -th e hand o f G o d -is a gift
and you don’t treat it lightly. You
receive it humbly and gratefully.”
“ 1 thank God for the favor He
shows, but Scripture says that we
should never become respecters of
into much more than the brilliantly
persons,” Helen concludes. And I
produced and performed project that
never want people looking at me like
it is. With a stellar roster of Los
I’m any different ”
Angeles’ finest musicians, powerful
stronger.
"The success of the Live Experi
ence doubled, and even tripled the
size o f our audiences,’ Helen ex
plains, “but that just made me want
to seek to do an even better job ot
what I do . to really reach those
people and let them know all that
God has brought me through and
hope that might help them in their
own lives. I’m all for good, whole
some, Christian entertainment, but
I’ve got a calling on my life to go
further—to reach into people s hearts
and touch and be touched by who
and where they are.
the
lUV. T • hat’s - J just
"
and observer
Cardinal Joseph ‘Bernardin
[eaves Tort land
Chicago The Vatican has re
placed the late Cardinal Joseph
Bemardin with a Chicago native
who could prove to be more outspo
ken on Roman Catholic doctrine
than his predecessor.
Archbishop Francis E. George,
60, o f Portland, Ore., will be in
stalled as head o f the nation s sec
ond-largest archdiocese May 7, six
months after B ernardin’s death
from cancer.
Like Bernardin, George is in
line with the pope in opposing
abortion, doctor-assisted suicide
and the ordination o f women. In
Portland, he was a vigorous oppo
nent o f the state’s law permitting
euthanasia.
He also has shown a moderate
streak. While bishop o f Yakima,
Wash., where he served from July
1990 until his appointment to Port
land last April, he joined other
Catholic leaders in opposing two
anti-gay-rights initiatives
Is the "Next Level" just an
ABC M o v ie of U»e W eek
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„ ..h O fln
i» fa
v n r-
the cultists
the . cult?
One
favor
Things are all right for the old
ite theory holds that M arshall
Heaven’s Gate bunch after all. I he
Applewhite, or Do, had been a
39 cultists who left us to board the
victim of homophobia. An intoler
big spaceship behind Hale-Bopp
ant society had made him ashamed
had tried several times to make
o f his own sexual proclivity; there
their own television movie, they
minister in me.”
fore he founded the cult. Indeed
wanted to spread the word about
It’s that same love and caring tor
the New Yorker warned that “re
Do and Ti and The Level Beyond
her audience, and all humanity, that
pressed hom osexuality” m ight
Human. Their movie never got
transforms Love Brought Me Back
mean there are “several million
made, although someone now will
more Applewhites out there, roam
make it for them. It will be shown
ing the earth in search of dis
on ABC as a "movie o f the week,
ciples.”
and a cultist who left the Heaven’s
Frank Rich offered a related
Gate compound before his friends
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..
„.-mt
inn
In
tm
theory
in the New York Times: An
is a narrative ot hope.’
all killed themselves will work on
empty society, even if not specifi
The
popularity
of
the
movement
H ie Hale-Bopp comet glowed in
it as a consultant. They wrote to
cally homophobic, was at fault.
may also reflect a sluggishness in
the sky above Manila Bay. but the
him before they died, asking him to
“ Here was a mass suicide suitable
the established Catholic Church. El
50,000 ecstatic Christian followers
go out and proselytize.
for Better Homes and Gardens,
Shaddai
claims
allegiance
to
the
o f Brother Mike paid it no heed
So far. he is not doing badly.
lucrative to sell religion.”
he wrote, and pointed out that the
church, and followers are encour
Its
base,
he
said,
is
among
the
Flying saucers were the last thing on
Newsweek got him tor an exclu
Like some American evangelists
aged to continue to attend Catholic
cultists had been living in an up
700,000
overseas
workers
who
are
their minds. Their reward was here
sive eight-hour interview, and fea
who collect large donations, Velarde
scale California suburb. Ameri
the
nation's
leading
earners
o
f
for
services.
and now: good jobs, good health,
tured him on the cover. Richard
has come under fire here tor his
cans yearn to live in places just like
But
in
the
huge
crowd
here,
many
eign
exchange,
sending
home
$8
good marriages, and, best of all,
Ford, a.k.a. Rio Di Angelo, appears
financial dealings.
that, he said, but when they do they
people said they had come for a
billion to $10 billion a year. El
in a black turtleneck, his face and
I le has been criticized by the Phil
money.
feeling o f fellowship and spiritual
find them sterile and hollow .
Shaddai
has
chapters
in
some
30
At the high point of the rally on a
shaved head artfully lighted. “Se
ippine Securities and Exchange
excitement that was lacking in tradi
Therefore the suicides represent
countries
where
Filipinos
are
em
vast fairground beside the bay, thou
crets o f the Cult,” the cover says,
Com m ission for irregularities in
the death o f the American dream.
ployed
as
maids,
entertainers,
and
tional
services.
sands ofpeople lifted their open wal
although Newsweek had not found
stock offerings from companies he
And so on, and so on, along
“
I
am
still
a
churchgoer,
but
here,
construction workers.
lets and bank books to the heavens to
any worth sharing. Heaven s Gate
controls, and a former associate has
with
many stories about contem
the
word
o
f
God
is
more
expanded,
It
is
a
solid
financial
foundation
tor
receive financial blessings from the
did not practice exotic rituals, and
accused him o f embezzling millions
porary spirituality and longings to
Mrs.
Rene
said.
“
People
are
more
a
religious
movement
that
asks
its
Philippines’ most popular evange
its theology, such as it was, was
of dollars in El Shaddai funds.
find a faith. None seem to have
intimate with each other, and there
followers not only to donate 10 per
list, M ariano Velarde, known as
soupy. Moreover, the cultists were
Velarde turns these setbacks into
pointed out, though, that court
is gladness and joy everywhere. In
cent of their earnings but also to otter
not interesting people. I hey had
Brother Mike.
grist for his sermons, incorporating
decisions and government rules
the
church
sometimes
you
feel
people
additional
“seed
money”
that
will
help
Some raised their passports in
fled from life, renouncing family,
them into the personal narrative that
have done their best to remove
are
silent
and
cold.”
them
reap
great
financial
returns.
friends and sexuality long before
hopes of a job abroad.
is his central parable o f hardships
religion from public life. Kidscan t
Like
almost
everything
in
this
“
Remember
this:
whoever
sows
“ Do you believe that without docu
they set out for the spaceship.
overcome.
pray in school, while judges can’t
politically
engaged
nation,
where
(gives)
sparingly
will
also
reap
(re
ments you can go to the United States
Nonetheless we have not heard
It is a pattern he teaches to his
post the Ten Com m andants in
campaign
rallies
often
resemble
re
ceive)
sparingly,
and
whoever
sows
with the help o f Brother Mike'.’” said
the last o f them. In life they had
followers His rallies are punctuated
chambers, and no one can put up a
vival
meetings,
El
Shaddai
has
joined
(gives)
generously
will
reap
(receive)
a worshiper named Nene Arreliano.
tried, and failed, to attract atten
by the “testimonies" o f believers who
cross or a Menorah in a public
generously, an I I Shaddai pam
the political tray.
tion; in death, their hope is being
“ 1 do.”
say El Shaddai has changed their
place. Meanwhile, “mainstream,"
In
the
last
presidential
election,
phlet
says,
quoting
from
the
Bible.
E v an g elical m o v em en ts are
realized. Even as Newsweek
lives.
in
1992,
its
open-air
services
with
socially acceptable religious orga
The
transactions
are
straightfor
sweeping this largely Roman Catho
and Diane Sawyer on “ PrimeTime
“ I had a heart attack, I lost my
nizations continue to confuse faith
their
huge
televised
audiences
be
ward.
Donation
envelopes
at
the
rally
lic nation, with its undercurrent ot
Ljve” — were fussing over Ford/
business, and my husband left me,
and liberal politics. Witness al
came
an
obligatory
stop
on
the
cam
include
a
space
on
which
a
wor
pre-Christian mysticism and ritual,
DiAngelo, Time was reporting that
said a member of the crowd, C ecilia
paign trail. At one point, Fidel
most any pronouncement by the
shiper
can
describe
the
reward
he
but never has the Philippines seen a
other survivors ofthe cult no longei
Rene. “ But the Lord took care of
Ramos,
who
is
now
president,
found
National Council o f Churches.
hopes for.
movement grow so fast and claim so
trusted him. Heaven s Gate now
that. Now I have a good business, my
Perhaps we should not be so
him self shaking hands uncomfort
“ I call it transactional spiritual
seems to be rent by a schism, and
many followers.
husband is with me, and I have a
surprised then by the emergence of
ably
with
the
flamboyant
former
first
ity,”
said
Randy
David,
a
Philippine
Founded a decade ago by Velarde,
the other survivors have establ ished
healthy body."
lady, Imelda M arcos, under the
cults and cultists. Heaven’s Gate
sociologist. “You get something tor
57, a real-estate developer with a
their own Website. Its first of f ering
Kate Wiegele, an American an
may have been delusional, but it
your
spirituality:
a
visa,
ajob
abroad,
beaming
gaze
ot
Velarde.
religious radio program, the move
__ “ Heaven’s Gate Away learn
thropologist who has studied I I
helped to fill a void. When God is
Now
with
another
election
ap
or
maybe
you
get
cured
of
an
illness
ment known as El Shaddai - a
Returns to Level Above Human in
Shaddai, said these narratives fol
banished from the public square, it
proaching
next
year,
the
inevitable
or
you
win
your
wife
or
your
hus
Hebrew name for God — has a fol
Distant Space” — carried greet
low a pattern set by Velarde s own
is easier for people like Do and I i
question
isbeingasked:
Will
Velarde
band
back
if
they
are
alienated.”
lowing estimated at 5 million.
ings from Do, I i and all the old
personal story and are at the heart of
to
step in. Moreover, their ideas
It
is
a
transaction
that
Velarde
him
self
run
for
president?
It is a religion o f its time, when
gang. The webmaster told Time:
the movement’s appeal.
“
Personally,
I
am
no,
interested
may
outlive them now, and attract
happily
acknowledges
he
is
engaged
the Philippines is just beginning to
"This will be an ongoing site for
"People learn tore-read their lives
new
believers. Look to the Web,
in
himself.
His
literature
tells
and
in
it,
but
1
cannot
close
any
av
join the economic growth spurt of its
years to come."
in term sof a before and an after, she
and
wait
for the ABC movie. What
retells
his
personal
story
of
real-
enues,"
he
said
the
other
day,
sug
Southeast Asian neighbors.
Meanwhile, the press continues
said. “ When you analyze their sto
gesting
the
possibility
o
f
a
new
chap
estate
investments
that
paid
oft,
af
do you expect?
"M ike Velarde is a new kind of
to look for meaning. What attracted
ries it is not clear whether their lives
ter in his personal narrative. “ Every
ter a period of travail, thanks to his
prophet, a prophet o f financial capi
are actually better than before. Some
body is pushing me. As you know,
faith.
talism.” said Alex Magno, a politi
times the narrative may not com
“
He
used
to
sell
real
estate,”
David
only God knows the future.”
cal scientist. “ This is a religion in
pletely fit but they feel like it fits. It
said.
"I
think
he
has
found
it
more
the age o f portfolio investment
Faith, Mysticism, & Money
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