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...College Republicans outnumber Democrats four to one,” said Michaela Brandell, a junior at the 16,000-student public school and guest at the convention. “It’s the second largest group on campus, behind Campus Crusade for Christ...
...only meeting; they're also sitting down and breaking bread together. The unearthly success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ helped movie execs recognize that fervent Christians, who spend hundreds of millions of dollars on religious books and music, are worth courting. Publicists hired by studios feed sermon ideas based on new movies to ministers. Meanwhile, Christians are increasingly borrowing from movies to drive home theological lessons. Clergy of all denominations have commandeered pulpits, publishing houses and especially websites to spread the gospel of cinevangelism...
Sister Maria had been addressing that subject minutes before Cardinal Pell's arrival: "If you were interviewing a group of very happily married ladies, probably they'd give very different answers about why they were so happy," she says. For this bride of Christ, joy comes with each attendance at morning Mass: "We couldn't be more intimately united with Him every day." As for Sister Antoinette, her faith is cultivated daily along with the standard roses she tends in the central cloister. "As a botanist," she says, "I always allow for the grace of God." Needless to say, they...
...ancient traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church is the yurodivy, the holy fool who naively yet fearlessly speaks truth to power. Someone like that appeared on July 14 in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior, at the memorial service for Paul Klebnikov, the murdered editor in chief of Forbes Russia. A scruffily dressed middle-aged man in the congregation started speaking to no one in particular. "That's what happens when you write about the seriously rich. Of course, they won't find anyone," the man said, referring to the investigation. "They'll pick up some tramp ? and announce...
...timing, given that there's a garden for every season. In the spring, Dutch bulbs burst out at Keukenhof. April sees the gardens of the Neapolitan Riviera lovely and fresh before the summer heat. July and August hold the promise of drowsy afternoons and long evenings in Oxford's Christ Church Meadows. In the fall, a permit for the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto is the best way to see Japan's fiery autumnal foliage. And when all is dreary in the north, there's always Cape Town's Kirstenbosch Gardens, or New Zealand's Ellerslie Flower Show in November...