Word: believerism
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"I'm a firm believer in the idea that one person can make a difference," says LaBell, who is compelling evidence for that argument. While we can claim no part of LaBell's success, we are proud to have played a small role in providing his motivation.
Less spectacular appearances by the Virgin have attracted streams of the faithful in locales from Central America to the Slavic steppes. In Nicaragua, President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is a strong believer in a series of % visitations by the Madonna in the small town of Cuapa, where Mary was witnessed...
Elie Wiesel quotes a Hasidic rabbi's prayer, "I have but one request; may I never use my reason against truth." Wiesel's grandfather believed "An objective Hasid is not a Hasid." The value of miracles hinges upon these distinctions. The subjective and objective flow into one another until the...
Though she has never lived on a working farm, Smiley, 42, has roots in rural country. She once asked her grandmother what it was like on the family's Idaho ranch; the old woman replied, "I don't remember -- I was too busy cooking." Smiley, who teaches at Iowa State...
My personal odyssey through alternative therapies began innocently in the late 1970s at a summer picnic in Canaan, Conn. One of the guests, a New Age true believer, overheard me say I was convinced that coffee was making my hands feel clammy though my doctor had scoffed at the connection...