Word: christe
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...first gay experience when Judas accosts him in the bathroom during the senior prom. Yet the play has no explicit sex (and very little implicit) and no cheap lampooning of the Greatest Story Ever Told. Indeed, Corpus Christi is a serious, even reverent retelling of the Christ story in a modern idiom--quite close, in its way, to the original. Jesus heals a truck driver of leprosy, raises Lazarus from the dead and predicts his own betrayal at the Last Supper. ("He's drunk, guys," says an Apostle. "It's the wine talking.") If the point is to make Jesus...
...incarnation: Shane Spencer of the New York Yankees. Just like Redford's Roy Hobbs, he's a nobody from nowhere and at 26, a little old maybe to be breaking into the bigs. Unlike the hero of Barry Levinson's gorgeous, myth-infused baseball fable, Spencer is neither angel, Christ figure, nor the best there ever was. But he's one hell of a hitter...
...expansive moral imagination has much to recommend it--including the endorsement of Jesus Christ. (Among the tactical advantages of Clinton's prayer breakfast was getting reporters to quote clergy quoting Scripture: "He that is without sin, let him first cast a stone.") Still, however humane a generous imagination may be, it poses a problem: Once started, where does it stop...
...also more overtly evangelistic than the atonement-oriented adult events. It overlaps another National Network project, Challenge 2000, the aim of which is "to help take the message of Christ to every school and every young person" within two years. Beacham has said that as See You spread, "we weren't even sure it was legal." It is. In 1990 the Supreme Court overwhelmingly sustained the constitutionality of a 1984 law permitting student prayer on school grounds if the prayer is not adult-led or during class hours. But the event still bothers some civil libertarians. Barry Lynn, head...
Christianity means believing in the intrinsic beauty of every human being, the beauty of all that was created in the image of God. It means compassion for children, the poor, the suffering, the sick and the imprisoned. Those who invoke the name of Jesus Christ in this country today often forget that he was the child of a working class family, what we would call a "minority" in the Roman Empire, and something of a rebellious teenager. They forget that this traveling rabbi had no riches to speak of, counted prostitutes, beggars and criminals among his principal acquaintances...