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...should come as no shock to Christians that there is life elsewhere in the universe, as discussed in "Dabbling in Exotheology" [April 24]. Christ identifies his own as existing "from one end of heaven to the other" (Matthew 24:31) and further tells us, "In my Father's house are many mansions" (John...
Your contention that in my Christian Century article I maintained that Jesus Christ was the product of a "genetics experiment" is ludicrous. My concern was whether the idea of the origin of humankind with extraterrestrial assistance would in any way compromise what the church believes about the uniqueness of God's revelation in and through Christ. Personally I don't think that it would, since the heart of that revelation (that God is love and mercy) is at the moral core of the universe. It is of cosmic dimensions and is not limited to the earth...
...Cardinal-Archbishop of New York, who has a good chance to become the first American Pope, decides to commit murder. The victim: an archaeologist who is at work in the basement of the Cardinal's residence examining what he believes to be the bones of Jesus Christ. If the grave news gets out, people might not believe in the Resurrection any longer. So goes Act of God by Charles Templeton (Little, Brown...
...South, raised Dotson on the road and wanted his son to become a preacher too. It was the novelist's great-uncle who had the distinction of preaching at the very meeting in Los Angeles where the adolescent Richard Nixon stepped forward to make a public commitment to Christ. With backgrounds like these, the lives of all three might make better novels than what they've put on the shelf...
...WENT ON to say that they were somewhere similar to the place where the gold plates of the Book of Mormon had been found. The children started asking questions, and Father unfolded for them (and for us) the story of the Mormon religion. He told about the appearance of Christ in North America a few hundred years before His appearance in Bethlehem, about how the people in North America eventually forgot Christ and grew fat and proud and wicked. He explained about how the last holy men--Mormon and his son Moroni--wrote down everything that they had seen...