Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, though, missionaries are accepting the conversions as a genuine response to the message of Christ. The Rev. Addison J. Eastman, mission director of the National Council of Churches' Asia department, believes that many of the converts are inspired by "a personal faith, and real hope that the Christian church can provide a base from which to work for humane social progress...
...Road. With the gold cross of the Supreme Order of Christ hanging around his neck, De Gaulle took the occasion of his visit to Rome to call on Pope Paul VI. The Pope pleased De Gaulle by declaring that "history will tell about his unequaled services to his country." De Gaulle praised the Pope for his efforts for world peace, warned that "peace has never been more blindly menaced." When the time came for a benediction, it was touch and go whether the Pope or De Gaulle would grant the blessing...
...large impersonal setting." Cosby also rejects activism for its own sake. "Just getting involved," he says, "is often a form of escape." The true Christian ministry, he believes, must be an "inward and outward" journey-meaning both spiritual pilgrimage toward God and dedication to the service of humanity for Christ's sake. "Reconciliation of man with God," says Cosby, "cannot exist outside the reconciliation of man with...
...Russian woman during his pre-Revolution exile in Paris: all these trivial addenda lend a sense of humanity to the men who made history and help relate them to the banality of history as it is lived. Yet Jim Bishop, chrome-plated chronicler of "days" in the lives of Christ and Kennedy, Lincoln and-now-Lyndon Baines Johnson, carries the device too far. For eleven days, Bishop tagged the President's heels-even into the flowered fields of the L.BJ. ranch-notebook at the ready for the drop of a detail...
Dialogue. A great deal of this knowledge is connected with his sense of family history. A gibe heard when he published Life Studies was not entirely unjust: "He writes as if Christ was crucified on the Lowell family tree...