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...Raelian baptism, a "guide" or a Raelian priest, puts his or her hand on the forehead of the person wishing to be baptized in order to transfer the baptized person?s "genetic information" to extraterrestrials. The ceremony can only occur between 3 and 4 p.m. "We believe at that particular time," says Marsic, "that there is some spaceship that records what is happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are the Raelians? | 1/4/2003 | See Source »

...Paul argued, did it come through tribal inheritance. The God of the Hebrew Bible deemed Abraham to be "righteous" years before his circumcision, he wrote, which meant that his listeners didn't need to become circumcised Jews to be Abraham's inheritors. Baptism in faith would more than suffice. Paul waffled as to whether Christianity rendered Judaism's Abrahamic Covenant null and void. But his successors assumed so. The 2nd century church father Justin Martyr wrote that far from an indication of grace, circumcision marked Jews "so that your landmight become desolate, and your cities burned," something of a self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...murder he hasn't thought of committing of a man he doesn't know--is oppressed by guilt because his young son was kidnapped while they were at a public swimming pool. Indeed, water, as both symbol and character, is everywhere in this film: in its Christian sense of baptism and absolution, in its dramatic function as either a hiding place (that terrific bathtub rendezvous with the cyberspiders) or a scene of tragedy (an abduction and two murderous drownings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Artificial Intelligence; Just Smart Fun: THE REVIEW | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...darkens for a moment before full lights finally come up. Yet at least one Williams film, his debut "Blood of Jesus" (1941), has a naive grandeur to match its subject. A morality play about an angel and a devil fighting for a woman's soul, it begins with a baptism and ends in bloody death near a cross - all scored to rousing gospel music. Fifty years after its making, "Jesus" was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Registry of Films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Cinema: Micheaux Must Go On | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

Though the company survived the recent economic downturn due to deals such as the WB contract, Trowbridge says it hasn’t been smooth sailing. “It’s been like the baptism by fire starting up a company,” he says, but things are looking up. As for the future, Trowbridge says he hopes the company will be “one of the prominent wireless market services companies around. We don’t have to be huge, but we want to be profitable.” He describes the wireless phone...

Author: By Blythe M. Adler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moeo! | 4/25/2002 | See Source »

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