Word: christe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twists of the Bible by which Father McNeill [Sept. 20] justifies homosexuality are but another victory in the anti-Christ campaign to wipe out every trace of self-discipline and self-control...
There are plenty of contemporary resonances, of course. Does anyone still believe that the hippies and gurus and Woodstocks of the '60s were anything new or unusual? Consider the medieval Pied Piper from Bourges, who called himself Christ and gathered an ecstatic following that then presented itself to the Bishop of Le Puy, its members "stark naked, leaping and somersaulting." The response was summary: the leader was "killed on the spot...
...mysterious Captain--hasn't been in Cambridge in two years. While most of the rest of the class of '77 lived the spoiled student life, Petersen, Dan Davis, Chris Kimball, and Tom Stromberg, willingly lived Spartan existences scattered throughout the world as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints...
...under half of the population -58% of the Protestants-say they have done personal witnessing, meaning that they have encouraged other people to believe in Christ or to accept him as Saviour...
...startling 34% of all Americans -about one-half of the country's Protestants-say they have had a "born-again" experience, a turning point when they committed themselves to Jesus Christ. That projects to nearly 50 million Americans over...