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Sarah Greensfelder is firm on the subject of heroes: "It's not a very good concept, because you're always thinking of what you ought to be and not what you are." Sarah is 13 and an agnostic who nevertheless keeps a reproduction of the ceiling of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: On the Fringe of a Golden Era | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Died. Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, 85. Archbishop of Lyons, early advocate of ecumenism, champion of French worker-priests, and central figure in French Agnostic Edouard Herriot's 1957 deathbed conversion to Roman Catholicism; of a heart attack; in Lyons.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 29, 1965 | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Not all the radical theologians who want Christianity to travel light are in the seminaries. Two of the most persuasive are consecrated bishops of the Anglican faith: John Robinson, the suffragan of Woolwich, and James A. Pike of San Francisco. In his bestselling (750,000 copies) Honest to God, Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christianity: The Servant Church | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

Harbinger of Death. Burton's tale is about a Christmas in his village in Wales. It is written in the first person and is so faithfully autobiographical that he does not even bother to change his own name. On this Christmas Eve, old Mad Dan, "the local agnostic," has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: A Beginning Writer | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Into the Ganges. Though Nehru's will had specifically requested no religious ceremonies after his death (Nehru was an avowed agnostic), his daughter Indira Gandhi had ordered the funeral performed with full Hindu religious customs and traditions. Nehru also had asked that a handful of his ashes be thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: After Nehru | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

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