Word: christe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should the death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday be an occasion for Americans to lower their flags as a gesture of patriotic mourning? Few would say so, but New Hampshire's archconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. thinks otherwise. Last week, as he has in two previous Holy Weeks, Thomson ordered all flags on public buildings lowered as a sign of recognition that "the moral grandeur and strength of Christianity [is] the bulwark against the forces of destructive ideologies...
...issue to Washington, where the Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 that Thomson should cease and desist. Up went the flags. Thomson then issued a "nonreligious" decree asking that the flags be lowered because of the '"historical impact on Western civilization of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ." He sent his lawyers back to Judge Skinner to see if that would be legal, but before Judge Skinner could rule, the sun set on Thomson's maneuverings...
...located pretty much where they have always been. Nearly two-thirds work in Pentecostal groups or paramilitary denominations, like the Salvation Army, which have given women full standing for decades. So have two denominations in other categories with the highest number of women clergy, the United Church of Christ (400) and Christian Church-Disciples of Christ...
...follow to make sure its loans achieved a multiracial purpose. Nonetheless, activist groups that have been pushing U.S. companies to get out of South Africa were happy that such a major bank had actually cut off credit to the government. Says Woody Connette, lawyer for the United Church of Christ Board for World Ministries: "We can use it [the Citibank decision] as leverage in approaching other large lenders...
...blacked-out stupor, he is bilked of his home, and gangsters lie in wait for him. The son (Ebbe Roe Smith), a touching fool-in-Christ figure, simply wants to hang onto a place that is already lost, and the daughter (Pamela Reed) plans to retrieve the loss by becoming an efficient criminal...