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...Missing God A controversial exploration of the existence of God: "Soren Kierkegaard warned that 'the day when Christianity and the world become friends, Christianity is done away with.' During World War II, the anti-Nazi Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote prophetically to a friend from his Berlin prison cell: 'We are proceeding toward a time of no religion at all.' For many, that time has arrived . 'Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God,' says one ... politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Levi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the College de France. 'I find it's perfectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 8, 1996 | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...subject of homosexuality can be discussed openly and, at times, without fear. My generation may not live to see the day when sexual orientation is a nonissue, but then again most of my generation never expected to see the end of the cold war or the fall of the Berlin Wall. DON NOLAN-PROXMIRE Alexandria, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1996 | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

Farmer talked about the high rates of divorce and illegitimate children and the dearth of religion in Berlin, where he and his wife head the city's Church of Christ...

Author: By Victor Chen and Justin D. Lerer, S | Title: In Spite of Controversy, Boston Church of Christ Offers Religious Haven | 3/20/1996 | See Source »

...applause reached its peak for Farmer, who had come from his congregation in Berlin to speak at John Hancock Hall...

Author: By Victor Chen and Justin D. Lerer, S | Title: In Spite of Controversy, Boston Church of Christ Offers Religious Haven | 3/20/1996 | See Source »

According to Farmer, the BCC has churches throughout the world. Disciples from his congregation recently set up parishes in Vienna and Prague. The Berlin church, which has 240 members, is the largest congregation meeting in the "godless, secular, humanistic" city, Farmer said...

Author: By Victor Chen and Justin D. Lerer, S | Title: In Spite of Controversy, Boston Church of Christ Offers Religious Haven | 3/20/1996 | See Source »

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