...to set the table.But when the group sat down to eat, they noticed there was no silverware beside the plate of the preacher's wife."Sweetheart," his mother said, "why didn't you give her a fork and spoon?""Because, Mom," the boy...

...and personal highs, Houston was using drugs. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2010, she said by the time "The Preacher's Wife" was released, "(doing drugs) was an everyday thing. ... I would do my work, but after I did my work...

...Rebecca Darwin, a Southerner who made her career as a New York magazine publisher, had settled into life as the preacher's wife, content that her once-bustling professional life was over. Then the former publisher of The New Yorker and...

Slain preacher's wife apologizes to church SELMER, TENN. - The preacher's wife charged with murder in her husband's death wanted his congregation to know "she was sorry for everything she has done," said...

...with the Rev. Karlton Howard. HEALTH FAIR: 9 a.m. Sept. 6; New Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church. MAXIE THE PREACHER'S WIFE: 7 p.m. Sept. 6; Matlock Baptist Church, Jackson; love offerings accepted. WOMEN IN UNITY: 3 p.m. Sept...

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It's one of the crowning contradictions of the movie industry that it purveys all manner of sexual depravity, sadistic violence, vulgarity and moral corruption on the big screen without a sigh of remorse. But when it comes to showing mainstream religion, that same movie industry becomes as timid as a church mouse. It's as if Hollywood has somehow confused itself with the government, hewing carefully to a strict separation of church and state.

Here are the weekly charts for the nation's most popular music as reported by Billboard magazine. Gospel albums 1.God's Property, God's Property from Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation (B-Rite) 2.Bebe Winans, Bebe Winans (Atlantic) 3.Finally Karen, Karen Clark-Sheard (Island) 4.`The Preacher's Wife' Soundtrack, (Arista) (Platinum) 5.Strength, The New Life Community Choir featuring John P. Kee (New Life)

Here is a list of what's new in video stores this weekend and a partial schedule of what's coming on video. Release dates are subject to change. JUST OUT: Tiger Woods: Son, Hero & Champion, Calm at Sunset, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Trigger Happy, Breaking the Waves, Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival, Flirt. JUNE 10: I'm Not Rappaport, Michael, Marvin's Room, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. JUNE 17: Mars Attacks!, Whiskers, My Fellow Americans, When Night is Falling, Citizen Ruth. Video reviews

Here is a list of what's new in video stores this weekend and a partial schedule of what's coming on video. Release dates are subject to change. JUST OUT: Jerry Maguire, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Unhook the Stars, Caught, Paradise Lost. TUESDAY: Tiger Woods: Son, Hero & Champion, Calm at Sunset, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Trigger Happy, Breaking the Waves, Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival, Flirt. JUNE 10: I'm Not Rappaport, Michael, Marvin's Room, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.