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...acknowledges at last that he was present at the execution, and he is denounced by the Christians of the city for renouncing his faith in order to survive. He adopts the role of public penitent and stands at the altar of his church glorifying the twelve martyrs, whom, he says, he has failed. "I let myself be paralyzed by the withering breath of despair!" he cries. "Blessed be the names of your martyrs! For they forgave me." Chill Wind. The truth is, of course, quite different. Mr. Shin, refusing to issue a public statement supporting the Communists, had acted...
Ethics & Ideology. The society is constantly finding new ways to provide service to the world as well as service at the altar. For Chicago's growing population of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, it operates a neighborhood house, complete with medical and dental clinics and a job-referral program. It set a team of educators to writing new Sunday-school texts that would fit the educational and cultural backgrounds of impoverished urban children. The society's mission extends to all levels of the city: it sponsors a middle-income housing program, backs a thriving Christian drama group...
...railroad timetable. The train pulls into the town of Galion, Ohio, and Blomberg is jolted awake: "Galion! They had come to Galion; this point in chaos and eternal night was Galion." To Blomberg, the trip signifies that she is "taking her heart as an offering to the bloodstained altar of the plumed serpent...
...Holy Sepulcher-a jumbled, decaying basilica that, like so many of the other holy places in Israel and Jordan, has throughout its history been the focus of countless jurisdictional squabbles among Roman Catholics, Orthodox, Copts and Armenians. Donning white liturgical vestments, the Pope celebrated Mass upon an austere portable altar set up near the place designated as the tomb in which Jesus' body lay between his death and Resurrection. The church, like the streets outside, was jammed to capacity...
Walking or Crawling. Do jazz and modern dance really have anything to do with the worship of God? Glenesk believes that any creative art is somehow touched with the divine. Moreover, drama at the altar attacks what he regards as the greatest enemy of meaningful worship: habit and routine. "You should not go to church out of habit," he says. "I am all for the idea of enjoyment. You should go because it is exciting. One week you can come out walking on air, another time crawling on the ground...