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...disease comes from the devil and that only God can cure illness. Charles Nixon, the dead children's grandfather and the pastor of Altoona's 140-member Faith Tabernacle congregation, clarified the sect's tenet: "We do not believe in 'faith healing.' We believe in 'divine healing' through Jesus Christ...
...what tons of historical research and theological studies have failed to accomplish: present a convincing account of what it may have felt like to be the man Jesus, human like his contemporaries but given a divine vision, mission and fate that they have been spared. But not even the Christ-haunted Dostoyevsky tried to go where Mailer has now rushed...
...event is further discounted by the disappointing lack of controversy. Sure, Jerry Falwell and some other oddball, pseudo-fascist groups have all protested and threatened boycotts. But, then again, these are the same people who are still upset that the Jews have been let off the hook for killing Christ. ABC has said that it expects "Ellen" to be fully sponsored. William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, cuts to the core of the event's absolute irrelevancy. He writes, "What is most annoying is the false courageousness of it. All they are going to get is applause and approbation...
...letter in The Crimson by Ken Y. Liu '98 ("Memorial Church Talk Also 'Front for Christ,'" April 15) the writer said he was upset because he'd attended a free talk given on Sunday by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Memorial Church and felt there should have been some sort of warning on the publicity posters that this was going to be a religious event...
...asleep during the first lesson, he had another warning of the "religious nature" of the service when Gomes read the second lesson from Philippians 2:1-15, where Paul explains that "in the name of Jesus every knee should bend...and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord..."God was everywhere in the service...