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...Golden State did not look kindly upon the Harvard men’s water polo team, which faced a grueling schedule this past weekend and lost four straight games.On Friday, the Crimson dropped its first game against California Baptist, 9-4, but rebounded later that day to take the nightcap against Occidental with a score of 9-3.Harvard had no rest as it faced another two highly rated teams on Saturday. Neither game went the Crimson’s way as it dropped its first game against Pomona, 9-6, and lost the final match to No. 18 Redlands, 15-9.REDLANDS...
...those days are gone. The main reason the American South, fiscal conservatives, and religious nuts were able to jump on the same bandwagon was because of the charisma and Southern Baptist heritage of President Clinton. Alas and alack, he cannot run again, and the last time I checked, the 2000 Presidential Election pretty clearly demonstrated that America didn’t want a Clinton White House without a Clinton...
Osteen is a second-generation Prosperity teacher. His father John Osteen started out Baptist but in 1959 withdrew from that fellowship to found a church in one of Houston's poorer neighborhoods and explore a new philosophy developing among Pentecostals. If the rest of Protestantism ignored finances, Prosperity placed them center stage, marrying Pentecostalism's ebullient notion of God's gifts with an older tradition that stressed the power of positive thinking. Practically, it emphasized hard work and good home economics. But the real heat was in its spiritual premise: that if a believer could establish, through word and deed...
...exemplifies this better than Osteen, who ran his father's television-production department until John died in 1999. "Joel has learned from his dad, but he has toned it back and tapped into basic, everyday folks' ways of talking," says Ben Phillips, a theology professor at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. That language is reflected in Your Best Life Now, an extraordinarily accessible exhortation to this-world empowerment through God. "To live your best life now," it opens, to see "your business taking off. See your marriage restored. See your family prospering. See your dreams come to pass ..." you must...
...biblical, as is the idea that he means us to enjoy the material world. But while Prosperity claims to be celebrating that goodness, the critics see it as treating God as a celestial ATM. "God becomes a means to an end, not the end in himself," says Southwestern Baptist's Phillips. Others are more upset about what it de-emphasizes. "[Prosperity] wants the positive but not the negative," says another Southern Baptist, Alan Branch of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo. "Problem is, we live on this side of Eden. We're fallen." That is, Prosperity soft-pedals...