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...that homosexuals can't change," said Johnston, who is now married and chairs the national event. He said he renounced his homosexuality in 1988 when he realized that his "relationship with Christ was more important than anything in the world." Members of the audience snickered when Robert H. Knight, director of cultural studies for the Family Research Council, said he once had a friend who was alcoholic and "also dabbling in homosexuality...
...globe, Zen Buddhists in San Francisco run two of the better-respected AIDS hospices, and their philosophy infuses the entire "good death" movement. In New York City and elsewhere, fans flock to talks by Thich Nhat Hanh, a French-based, socially engaged Vietnamese monk whose book Living Buddha, Living Christ sold 100,000 hardcover copies. In cyberspace the Manhattan-based Asian Classics Institute has transferred 100,000 deteriorating pages of scripture from Tibetan block prints onto the Internet. Mirabai Bush, a devotee of the non-Tibetan Vipassana school, teaches Monsanto executives nonreligious meditation techniques out of Williamsburg, Mass. Since...
...many his age, began during his college years with Zen, as idiosyncratically presented by Beat writers like Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg. America had shown some interest in Buddhism before the 1950s: Henry David Thoreau wrote, "some will have bad thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha." But the Beats' incorporation of koans into the phenomenon of "hip" made them de facto recruiters for a hardy group of Japanese Zen masters who had begun arriving on both coasts in the 1930s...
...school was a turning point in Ebbers' spiritual development. He noted in the school's alumni magazine last year, "I came to have a fuller understanding of what my purpose was in life, what a personal relationship with Jesus Christ really meant, and how I would try to live my life from that point...
...After graduating from college, he plunged straight into coaching football, and it was during his tenure as a defensive coordinator at the University of Michigan that he and his wife Lyndi, who were originally Roman Catholic, became more fervent Christians, inspired by the Protestant evangelical organization Campus Crusade for Christ...