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...platform is an altar, the tinkly tune is praise music, and the practice is Christian yoga. Senarighi's class, called Yogadevotion and taught in the main chapel of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minn., is part of a fast-growing movement that seeks to retool the 5,000-year-old practice of yoga to fit Christ's teachings. From Phoenix, Ariz., to Pittsburgh, Pa., from Grand Rapids, Mich., to New York City, hundreds of Christian yoga classes are in session. A national association of Christian yoga teachers was started in July, and a slew of books and videos...
West is sometimes credited with revolutionizing hip-hop, but this doesn't quite fit. Revolutions require moral certainty, and West's default position is doubt. What he's up to is more like a reformation. "I'm pretty calculating," he says, standing before the baroque altar of Prague's Church of St. Simon and Juda. "I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides." As an example, he cites a snippet of Diamonds from Sierra Leone about his rise to fame: "'Life movin' too fast...
...Jersey packed the Princeton temple, and the blood of the unpopped spilled down the temple steps towards the fountain outside of the Woodrow Wilson School of Government. Officials blamed the crimson-dyed waters on pranksters from Rutgers. After the construction of the Frist Center covered the sacrificial altar with a cafeteria, student center, and classrooms, Princeton students set up competing popped and unpopped Facebook groups to continue the strife. Things seemed contained geographically, but it was not long until the conflict would widen beyond the Garden State. As of four summers ago, popped collars seemed an occasional oddity, something practiced...
...attracted to Betsy at first glimpse. But as I got to know her, I found myself falling in love with her quick mind, offbeat sense of humor and agility on the dance floor, where I thought I had mastered the fox-trot. We danced our way to the altar. We married in 1940, following a courtship that, like the one with my Houston friend, involved separation...
...retrospect, we find that Harvard didn’t do as much to protect its junior faculty as they could have,” he says. “A few young faculty members were sacrificed on the altar of McCarthyism...