Word: christian
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Snapping is a word coined to describe the sudden, drastic alteration or even total transformation of personality that apparently occurs in mass psychological therapies and spiritualistic cults like est, TM. Hare Krishna, the Moonies, Scientology, the Born-Again Christian movement, the Children of God, the Love Family, and so forth. An interested observer goes to a cult meeting, becomes convinced, and the effect is as if someone had reached out and changed the channel on his mind's television screen--snap--and now he gets channel 12 instead of channel 5. To reach him, you have to broadcast...
...they argued the new pontiff will probably enjoy a long reign, which would keep the Church from facing the instability of a papal death in the near future. Furthermore, they said, the election of a non-Italian--especially a cardinal from Eastern Europe--might well free Italy's Christian Democratic party from the almost incestuous ties with the Vatican that many experts believe have limited its political freedom in recent year...
...Cottonreader, national field director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), arrived in Decatur the same day Mims took over as Hines' lawyer. Cottonreader immediately tried to mobilize Decatur blacks for marches and protests. The first protest took place in Decatur a week later with approximately 150 marchers--a large number for the hot, humid, early summers that come to Alabama. Singing the songs of the old civil rights days, the marchers harmonized in a rendition of "We Shall Overcome" as they walked on, braving the heat, stares from reporters and curious faces. The group, composed of mostly young people...
...Lynds (he died in 1970, she is retired) found a work-oriented town where "getting on" was important, as were self-reliance, civic pride, patriotism and Christian fervor. So did the Middletown III researchers of today. Caplow and Teammate Howard Bahr of Brigham Young University asked Muncie high school students of 1977 the same public opinion questions the Lynds asked 1924 students, and got much the same answers. Last year 50% of the students agreed that "the Bible is a sufficient guide to all problems of modern life," 78% said the U.S. is "unquestionably the best country in the world...
Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, and minister in Harvard's Memorial Church, was unaware of the Gomes For Pope campaign until it was well underway, Tom W. Flynn, another Gomes supporter said last week...