Word: agora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board, describes these experiments as "unstructured ministries." The theory behind these unstructured ministries is that Christianity can no longer sit back and wait for people to join a formal service-every-Sunday church, and must actively seek them out. Thus, in Chicago, the Rev. Donald N. Kelly conducts an "agora" (from the Greek for marketplace) ministry in the arcade of the Oakbrook Shopping Center's professional building. Kelly and his lay assistants present no formal services, instead concentrate on making contact with the unchurched who work at the center or in nearby factories and offices. The value of this...
...elegant agora of the new suburbia, the font of everything from Kix to Cheer, and the source of no small amount of corn - including the gag about the housewife whose shopping cart does $40 an hour. The American housewife thinks nothing of spending an average $1,200 a year in the super market. Altogether, U.S. food stores do a $60 billion-a-year business, as much as the steel and auto industries wrapped together...
Pereira sets great store by open spaces. He holds that the history of any civilization is written in its treatment of open spaces?Athens' Agora, Rome's Forum, the broad sweeps of Paris in the 19th century. And what of the 20th? Says Pereira: "While the auto was supposedly freeing the individual and his family from the asphalt jungles, our open spaces have been overpowered in much the same manner that the tropical jungle eventually mastered the great cities of the Yucatan. Take parking lots. A great deal of our open land has been withdrawn to provide parking lots. Nothing...
...dozen other methods that allow him to date the objects he unearths. By measuring the electron emissions from reheated pottery with extremely sensitive instruments, scientists are able to determine when the pottery was first fired. This technique, called thermoluminescence, was used to date Greek pot shards from the Agora, near Athens, back to the 9th century...
Christianity moved west from Asia Minor to Europe after a dream in which the figure of a man appeared beside Paul's bed and cried: "Come over into Macedonia and help us!" Paul carried the Gospel across the Aegean, through Macedonia and down to Athens, where in the agora below the Acropolis he preached his most famous sermon, proclaiming "the unknown God" to whom the Athenians had erected a monument. Almost as well known is Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, when they knelt weeping on the shore after he had told them, "You . . . will...