Word: christe
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Richard Attenborough's much-Oscared movie Gandhi struck me, when it was first released, as an example of this type of unhistorical Western saintmaking. Here was Gandhi-as-guru, purveying that fashionable product, the Wisdom of the East; and Gandhi-as-Christ, dying (and, before that, frequently going on hunger strike) so that others might live. His philosophy of nonviolence seemed to work by embarrassing the British into leaving; freedom could be won, the film appeared to suggest, by being more moral than your oppressor, whose moral code could then oblige him to withdraw...
...bricks themselves cannot be made from the region's soil, for unlike fertile Virginia, the Massachusetts colonists found themselves richer in the harbor than the field. Similarly, Hillel and St. Paul's though superficially dedicated to such kin ventures as morality and God, differ on details like whether Christ is the messiah. Similar disagreements between The Crimson and Mass. Hall, and the Fly and Lampoon, need not be explicated. The point is this: urban planning can only do so much to make a community look and feel like one community. The rouge monotony that serves as Cambridge's controlling architectural...
...Understand that when we stand before Christians and sing to Christ with an air of apathy, we could be interpreted as not taking Christianity seriously," read the e-mail, which was provided to The Crimson by a member of the group. "Understand that when we go before a black church or a black elementary school and say we're about to sing gospel with nearly half our members white, we immediately bear the burden of proof...
Mitchell Johnson, 13, found God at a youth revival meeting last September. "He made a profession of faith and decided to accept Jesus Christ as his savior," says Christopher Perry, the youth minister at Central Baptist Church in Jonesboro. Mitchell was new to the area, barely two years in town, and looking to fit in. A classmate brought him to Central Baptist, and the church, for a while at least, seemed to provide a haven...
...ordinary can sometimes prove remarkable. That's what French researchers discovered when they were called in to examine a stash of mummies unearthed by the Egyptians in a necropolis at Ain Labakha, a village within the oasis inhabited by 500 to 1,000 people around the time of Christ. Because working-class graves are of little interest to treasure hunters, the mummies were virtually undisturbed, giving the scientists an unparalleled look at how regular folks of the time lived and died...