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...details of their previous meetings. She says that he has learned nothing from her inspirations: "The world's full of highly pertinent male-female situations whose fictional exploration does subtend a viable sociological function-and yet this is the best you can come up with. Muses . . . I mean, Christ...
...bottle of sarsaparilla (alcohol is not sold on the grounds) flung into the night is likely to bean an aestivating pastor. To one side of the amphitheater is the stately United Presbyterian House, red brick with white trim, and to the other side is the substantial United Church of Christ Center, red brick with yellow trim. On the 856 acres owned by the institution, there are more church buildings than tennis courts, and there are a lot of tennis courts...
...calls into question the integrity of the church's teachings. Prophet Ellen G. White (1827-1915) rallied the group that became known as the Adventists following the "Great Disappointment" of Oct. 22, 1844, the date when thousands of Protestants expected the Second Coming (or Advent) of Jesus Christ to occur. When it did not, White, a "messenger" of God and interpreter of the Bible, said she received a vision explaining that on Oct. 22 Christ had entered a new "sanctuary" in heaven to begin "in vestigative judgment" of the lives and works of believers. Then White reported a second...
...rebel. Spain in general-and Toledo in particular-was in the throes of the Counter Reformation, and El Greco never wavered in his support of conventional Catholic doctrine. It is true that he lost the support of cathedral officials because his version of the Disrobing of Christ included the three Marys in the lower left corner (conservatives argue that they are not mentioned in the text of the Gospel). He also lost the hoped-for patronage of King Philip II, who disliked the fact that the artist's version of the Martyrdom of St. Maurice featured Maurice...
...Calm is the night, O Lord, as we wait for you," begin the seated brothers of Vermont's Weston Priory, singing one of the simple contemporary hymns written by their own Brother Gregory. "All the stars are laughing at our wonder." They continue antiphonally, "Christ yesterday and today/ The beginning and the end/ The alpha and the omega." And then they sing, "Glorify the Lord with me/ Let us praise his name/ Those whose spirit is crushed/ He will save." After John Denver's recording of Annie's Song is played, two brothers strum a simple accompaniment...