Word: baptism
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...scene was a baptism in the devoutly Catholic Brittany town of Morlaix: proud parents, thirty beaming friends, godparents holding the infant girl. But why was everybody gathered at the city hall instead of the local church? Why was the deputy mayor, in his tricolor sash, presiding instead of a priest with his stole? The ceremony was in fact a "republican baptism." Instead of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the baby was christened in the spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity...
...late 1960s, Marjoe was back playing the old machine, telling fabricated stories about his call from God (in a dream, at four) and his baptism of the Spirit (in the bathtub, at five). Howard Smith, a columnist for Manhattan's Village Voice, heard about Marjoe at a party last year, taped an interview with him, and recognized him as a find. Smith then talked Theater Mogul Donald S. Rugoff and California Entrepreneur Max Palevsky (until recently a big McGovern bankroller) into backing a documentary through Cinema...
...Testament view, all believers are 'priests.' " Thus he prefers the more functional names of the New Testament like presbyter, elder and overseer, or simply the generic title "leader" or "presider," denoting one elected to preach the word and preside at the community's sacramental experiences: baptism and the Eucharist...
...alarm only added to the general din of the reawakening city. Besides the noise of heavy traffic, the guttural thrum of private generators and heavy-duty pumps resounded from every block as people attempted to bail out the last vestiges of their week-long baptism...
DeVoss, a Saigon correspondent for just three months, received a baptism by 122-mm. rocket fire when he was caught in a barrage outside ARVN headquarters in Chon Thanh. He covered the air war the hard way-as a passenger aboard an A-37 on a 90-minute dive-bombing mission over An Xuyen province. "It was Cinerama and Coney Island wrapped into one as we hurtled toward the earth at 300 m.p.h., then, glued to the seat, soared skyward," says DeVoss. The Air Force had thoughtfully lent him a pistol, knife, rope, radio, parachute and other survival items...