Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Essay comes at a time in history that needs more than ever the articulation of just what it means to be a Christian, 1968. That Christ's law was one of love and not legality is made so evident in the Essay that it must take on a new meaning to all Christians. You have presented a picture of Jesus Christ that removes the image of him as a proverbial prophet of a meaningless message and shows him to be the great man of love-a love that extends out not for simply the people...
...short run, the murder in Memphis will probably increase the power of the militants. "The way things are today," observes Floyd McKissick, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, "not even Christ could come back and preach nonviolence...
...emphasize zeal and fervor in both sermon and song. And Negro pastors-although still a voice of reason in the ghetto-are getting tougher. One of Detroit's most militant black power leaders now is the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., who calls his Central United Church of Christ "the shrine of the Black Madonna." Concurrently, Negro pastors in a number of white Protestant denominations are forming separate blocs of their own, demanding more say in church affairs and more forceful programs in behalf of Negroes...
...responsible for his fall from grace and innocence; the effect is to cast woman as a subordinate being to man and a sinful temptress. Catholic theologians have argued that the church's devotion to the Virgin Mary enhances the stature of women. Miss Daly answers that Christ's mother in fact is "glorified only in accepting the subordinate role assigned to her" in God's plan of salvation...
...murder started a new exodus of business from the ghettos. In Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and some other cities, many merchants whose stores were looted, vandalized and burned started pulling out. Most of them say they are leaving for good. "You can't get insurance around here," says Christ Boulahanis, whose hot-dog stand on Chicago's West Roosevelt Road was a total casualty. Near by, William Sheldon, the elderly owner of Sheldon Radio & TV shop, has nothing left after doing business in the same store for 34 years. "Anyone who reopens or rebuilds in this neighborhood must...