Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through a stiff and difficult 30-minute session, the dozen members of the Black Leadership Forum criticized and interrogated Carter. "We're deeply disturbed by what we've heard," said Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "We don't feel the poor and the minorities ought to bear the burden," said Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind. At one point Coretta Scott King, who campaigned extensively for Carter in 1976, said: "I've just been sitting here. I haven't said anything because I'm so deeply troubled...
...winner, portly, avuncular Lawyer-Politician Luis Herrera Campins, 53, leader of the centrist Social Christian Party, got some 47% of the vote. That put him well ahead of the field of nine other candidates, including Acción Democrática's Luis Piñerua Ordaz, 57, who won roughly...
...classic Christian answer to this quandary is the free will theory formulated by St. Augustine. As the Rev. Stephen Duffy of New Orleans' Loyola University summarized it last week: "God freely decided to limit his own freedom and put no limit on ours. We certainly are capable of making a botch of it." If God had programmed all human beings to be good, he explains, there might be no evil, but there would be no virtue either. God chose to let man choose...
...main-line religion been so ineffectual in confronting the bizarre cults that were proliferating in the U.S. long before tragedy struck at Jonestown? The Evangelical Protestants and the Fundamentalists have been waging ideological hand-to-hand combat with them, as have Jewish groups (which are fending off Christian evangelists at the same time). But Roman Catholicism and the more liberal Protestant denominations have settled for polite discourse, though they, too, mistrust the cults...
...done by the Arthur D. Little consulting company of Cambridge shows that 75 percent of the 81 corporations who signed equal employment pledges this year have ended discrimination. Mr. Lenzner added that medical and insurance benefits for blacks have improved, to the point of equality in most cases. The Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 4, 1978, page 32) said in an editorial that South Africa's new minister for black affairs, Pieter Koornhof, has made "no less than stirring promises." The Monitor reported that, "Mr. Koornhof said that plans for demolition [of the Cape Town squatters' settlement, Crossroads] have been...