Word: baptismal
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...Marley and the Wailers: Legend (Island, 1984). Marley died in 1981, but this collection of some of his best songs was no epitaph. It was a perpetual baptism of Jamaican soul...
...praying before he wrote. In another panel Sassetta showed Aquinas asking Christ what he thought of his book on the nature of the Eucharist, and receiving the approval of the Supreme Editor. The Sienese sophisticate would also have connected the well visible in the courtyard with the sacrament of baptism, and the cloister itself with the Earthly Paradise. For a modern viewer it is the exquisitely ordered space that counts, those intricacies of dull green, tan and gold, with the black blade of the saint's cappa sharply anchoring them...
...previous generations had, a collective experience that molds the public spirit. The Depression in the '30s, WW II in the '40s. Vietnam and the civil rights movements in the '60s, all have contributed to national bonding of the type that can only result from a baptism by fire...
Bishops from the fast-growing Anglican churches in Africa and Asia had differing views on women but united to confront the West on other issues. The most striking example was a decision to end long-standing church teaching against the baptism of polygamists. The Africans said the traditional stand cruelly forced converts to abandon their plural wives. Now converts in polygamous societies will be allowed to keep their wives if they forswear further marriages...
Remember when freshman goaltender Mike Francis had his first collegiate game last November against Team USA? He underwent a "baptism by vulcanized rubber," as puck after puck went hurtling towards the Harvard goal...