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ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH The Paper Men, Nobel laureate William Golding's latest novel, the protagonist, the footloose novelist Wilfred Barclay, experiences a sort of revelation. Standing in a church, in front of a statue of Christ, Barclay realizes...
Marian Guinn, who was accused of misconduct by the leaders of the Church of Christ [RELIGION, March 26], knew that she was going against the teachings of the sect when she had an affair. Many people seek the church when they feel religious but forsake it whenever the tenets no longer please them...
...mathematical substructure with all manner of arcane rhymes: the triad, for instance, of the red ball on the ground, the globe over the door and the pompon on the boy's cap. The cast of characters is mixed. The man in white might be a baker, or perhaps Christ carrying the lignum crucis; the two boys are Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the twins from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. It did not escape Balthus that Carroll had a thing about little girls: Tweedledum is molesting Alice. Most of the themes of Balthus's mature work...
...described in the courtroom as a sinner, diminutive 36-year-old Nurse Marian Guinn, was not on trial; her accusers were, Guinn was suing her church and its elders for $1.3 million in damages for publicly condemning her sexual behavior. She charged that in denouncing her, the Church of Christ in nearby Collinsville (pop. 3,500) had invaded her privacy, intentionally causing emotional distress and shattering her "whole world...
...elders argued that they had an absolute right to practice their religion as Church of Christ tradition dictates. The 13,000 Churches of Christ in the U.S. are noted for monitoring and disciplining the lives of their 1.3 million adult members. As the elders testified, Churches of Christ seek to apply literally every word of the New Testament. In Matthew 18: 15-17, Jesus Christ lays out the procedure for dealing with a wrongdoer. The final step: "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church...