Word: baptismal
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...blue sports jacket. And it matches his red Bible, which never strays more than a half a foot or so away from his right hand. "I am a citizen first, a pastor second," Michael says. Above all, he is a Christian; but he distinguishes his strain of Baptism from the "gray nebulous" of Christian sects, using a string of adjectives that pop up over and over again: fundamentalist, Bible-believing, born-again, saved. As a citizen, he has always kept up on the issues, voted, written to his congressmen. As a Christian, he--along with the other members...
Puritans ruled Cambridge, as they did most of Massachusetts Bay, in the early days--Henry Dunster, president of Harvard, left his post in 1654 rather than publicly extol infant baptism, and at least one "witch" left this world from Gallows Hill north of Harvard. But like the rest of the colony, Cambridge matured quickly--by the beginning of the 18th century, a new group of wealthier and more tolerant folks, the Tories, supplanted the Mathers and their ilk. Huge houses began to sprout on Brattle St., still seen by many as the home of the haughty "Brattle St. crowd...
...than 5,000 extras, and meticulous attention to authenticity. All the filming was done in the Holy Land, and a Sanhedrin of Bible scholars and other experts was consulted on costumes, sets and historical sites. The film deals frankly with the signs and miracles in Luke. At Jesus' baptism in the Jordan River, a dove flutters down to the Nazarene's damp shoulder. In other scenes, fishes and loaves multiply, the halt and the blind are healed and Christ physically returns from the dead...
...book nearly twice as thick as the 1928 edition. But even so, in the process many a burnished and beloved phrase has been edited flat or cast into outer darkness. In the marriage service, "till death do us part" becomes "until we are parted by death." In the renovated baptism, the priest will no longer pray that the child be given strength to defeat "the devil, the world and the flesh...
...that this Polish Pope?this Slav Pope?should at this precise moment manifest the spiritual unity of Christian Europe? Although there are two great traditions, that of the West and that of the East, to which it is indebted, through both of them Christian Europe professes 'one faith, one baptism, one God and Father...