Word: christe
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...continued to be Irish-born nuns. Mother Teresa was no longer affiliated with the Sisters of Loreto, but she came around to our campus every now and then. She had left teaching at another of the Sisters' schools three years before in order to, as she put it, "follow Christ into the slums." The break, as far as we schoolgirls could tell, had not been totally amicable, at least not on the part of the Loreto nuns...
...past half-century. Always an authentic revivalist, Graham has evaded both doctrine and denomination. He sounds not at all like a Fundamentalist, even though he affirms the fundamentals--the literal truth of the Bible: the virgin birth, atoning death and the bodily resurrection of Christ; the Second Coming; salvation purely through grace by faith and not works. Graham's most important book, Peace with God (1953), is light-years away from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, which is revered by Fundamentalists. Everything that is harsh in Lewis is softened by Graham, whose essential optimism is inconsistent with his apocalyptic expectations...
...fighter, the proudest and most competitive person I've ever seen. This was a man who, as a lieutenant in the Army, risked a court-martial by refusing to sit in the back of a military bus. But when Rickey read to him from The Life of Christ, Jackie understood the wisdom and the necessity of forbearance...
...Jesus was born in the slum," Jackson said, comparing Christ's plight to that of countless disenfranchised groups in the U.S., "to an unmarried mother, who didn't have the right to vote, who didn't have the right pedigree. He was born outside, with the smell of manure. Jesus was born in the slum, but the slum was not born...
...Jesus was born in the slum," Jackson said, comparing Christ's plight to that of countless disenfranchised groups in the U.S., "to an unmarried mother, who didn't have the right to vote, who didn't have the right pedigree. He was born outside, with the smell of manure. Jesus was born in the slum, but the slum was not born...