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...first novel in many months, begins at old Joe Moore's funeral. At the graveside are weeping priests. Mary Gordon knows the Irish Catholic enclaves of New York lethally well. The priests had been her father's companions, drinking for hours in his house and arguing about baptism of desire. Moore himself was a militant soldier of Christ and a right-wing fanatic: "His sympathies were with the South in the Civil War and the Spanish Fascists." But if his opinions were unfashionable and possibly barbaric, he knew something about the nature of his God's love...
...contemporary culture, and Pentecostalists, who have experienced the "baptism in the Holy Spirit" and practice such divine "gifts" as speaking in tongues and miraculous healing by prayer. The latter include everything from Episcopalians to nearly a million Roman Catholics, to oddball healers and assorted tent preachers. Most Evangelicals, though, are basically conventional Protestants who hold staunchly to the authority of the Bible in all matters and adhere to orthodox Christian doctrine. They believe in making a conscious personal commitment to Christ, a spiritual encounter, gradual or instantaneous, known as the born-again experience...
...University of Georgia, himself an onomastic authority, offers this theory: the Jimmy phenomenon is a bit of transplanted Southern tradition. He realizes some Yankees consider nicknames childish and undignified. There are more adult Jimmys and Billys in the South, noted Algeo, partly because there is less infant baptism than up North and nicknames are more likely to get started and stick before the ceremony intervenes. Some pollsters have suggested that the nickname helped Carter with younger voters. But as criticism of Carter has mounted, his seemingly casual, unorthodox approach to the presidency may now be working against...
Harvard head coach Frank McLaughlin and his quintet of cagers may receive a baptism by fire tomorrow night when they tip off the season against UMass in the IAB at 7:30. Coach Jack Leaman's squad went 20-11 last season and in two of those victories the Minutemen anointed the hardwood with Crimson jerseys...
...abandoning us to time," writes Dillard. She despairs of earthly happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm," a substance buried deep within planets that "is in touch with the Absolute, at base." She writes with irreverent abandon: "Yank the Absolute out of there and into the light...