Word: christe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CORPUS CHRISTI Pity the play that doesn't live up to its advance "controversy." Terrence McNally's recasting of Christ as a contemporary homosexual might have drawn more fans had it really been a gay Godspell, as some sniffed. Instead it's a sober, impassioned work, given great force by Joe Mantello's clean and clever staging...
Along with the letter, Wishnatsky's package included several related items. One, the comic book "Charlie's Ants," uses a boy's relationship with his ants as an allegory for the story of Jesus Christ. On the last page is a pledge for readers to sign, indicating their acceptance of Jesus as their personal savior...
...article "Author Speaks Out Against Christmas" (News, Dec. 9), Tom Flynn says, "If Jesus Christ is not your savior, Christmas is not your holiday." Clearly, Jesus Christ is not Flynn's savior, and his faith is his own business. But he has no right to attack one of the most sacred days of the Christian faith as "an elaborately sustained parental lie." He asserts that the belief in Santa Claus is detrimental to children's moral and religious development...
...century Japanese would have recognized this as a parody of a familiar religious image--the parinirvana, or scene of the dead Buddha encircled by a crowd of his mourning disciples. You only need to try to imagine a Western equivalent to this--a deposition from the cross, say, with Christ as a carrot--to realize what a gulf lay between Buddhist and Christian attitudes. Part of Jakuchu's point is that his image is not merely blasphemous, and was not thought to be: radishes, like all other living things, have their Buddha nature. And yet it's funny--as much...
...when the "winter" decorations go up, I am astonished. We attend an institution where concerned students were able to convince administrators that the word "freshman" was pernicious. How is it that those same administrators can't understand that the House-sponsored display of symbols celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, isn't similarly problematic...