Word: christe
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...question is, is there a compelling reason to grant an exception," Epps said. "This issue comes up quite a lot, and we use this principle to keep out organizations like the Boston Church of Christ...
Family members requested that donations in Sarah's memory be directed to Bruce Anderson at the First Church of Christ in Norfolk
...followers of Jesus to remake Jerusalem into Christendom's holiest place, a development she regards with little sympathy. Christians were taught to worship God's presence in Jesus rather than a specific place, she says; only in the 4th century with the archaeologically suspect "discovery" of Christ's tomb within Jerusalem's walls did the church project ideas of the divine onto the city itself, wrecking Jewish shrines to build Christian ones. The Byzantines and later the Crusaders, she argues, were the least worthy inheritors of the city because they so thoroughly failed to live up to holy ideals, brutally...
...ORLEANS: President Clinton continues his stampede to campaign turf staked out by Bob Dole. Thursday's subject: Curfews for minors. A day after Dole delivered a speech touching on a similar theme in California, Clinton used an appearance before the New Orleans Church of God in Christ to embrace the idea of curfews as a way to protect children and prevent them from getting involved in criminal activity. In touting the "dusk to dawn" curfew in New Orleans, Clinton said curfews are needed to "bring more order and structure and discipline" to young people's lives. The New Orleans curfew...
...recently, homosexuality was considered largely voluntary, a series of perverse choices by a free will. But as it becomes likelier that homosexuality is a physical predisposition, presumably God-given, the next kind of question has to be, What might God have had in mind, and is it significant that Christ never mentioned the subject? And the question after that: What injustices may have been done to homosexuals under the old understanding, and what can be done to avoid more of them...