Word: baptisme
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Think about it. The most blessed team of all time--Notre Dame--is named after the Virgin Mary, and for decades Notre Dame slew the heathens of the NCAA. When former Coach Gerry Foust suffered his baptism by fire, however, he once ordered blue uniforms because, he said, blue is the color of the Blessed Virgin (seriously...
...will not change is the Army's religious philosophy or its military structure. The revival-minded Protestant group holds strictly to an eleven-point orthodox statement of doctrine and a literal interpretation of the Bible. It is so insistent upon simplicity in worship that it shuns all services of baptism and communion...
...Sigourney (after the unseen aunt of Gatsby's sleek-snob lady friend Jordan Baker). "I was so tall," Weaver declares, "and Susan was such a short name. To my ear Sigourney was a stage name -- long and curvy, with a musical ring." For nearly a year after this self-baptism, her parents called her simply S, just in case the girl changed her mind, and her name, again...
...call the place Six Flags over Jesus, but you will be disappointed if you come expecting a Holy Roller coaster or a guided walk across the Sea of ! Galilee. Still, Heritage is not your everyday theme park. Now and again, lifeguards shut down the swimming pool to perform a baptism, and at Eastertide the song-and-dance acts are replaced by a Passion play. In a salon of the 500- room hotel, blue-haired grannies sip tea (no alcohol is served) as a harpist plays nearby. "Jim Bakker grew up and asked, 'Why can't everything be nice?' " reports Aide...
...games marked the Broncos first ever appearance in the 10-year Division I history of their program, and the Crimson gave them a Baptism of fire...