Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa. "We want them removed." The black clergyman, who will travel to Oslo this week to accept the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, assailed the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement" with South Africa as "immoral, evil and totally un-Christian." "We shall be free," he declared. "And we shall remember who helped us become free." Breaking their own rules, the subcommittee members gave Tutu a standing ovation...
...ancient Greece to the murals of Picasso. Along the way he stops to consider almost every major artist; he shows how Dürer worked in woodcuts, the techniques of Holbein (seen painting the clothes of a straw model because the King is too busy to pose), the hidden Christian imagery of Goya, the palette of the impressionists, the contained violence of the fauves and cubists. Ventura augments photographs of the paintings with his own sketches of the artists at work, explains such terms as fresco and perspective and concludes with a series of brief biographies. There are yearlong...
...outrageous? I'd like the complete 250 volumes of the Loeb Classical Library. I already have two or three," says The Rev, Peter J. Gomes, Minister in Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. Padre, you're welcome to come borrow I he Crimson's I oeb volumes anytime And advice for Santa: "I suppose I'd give everybody a copy of Miss Manners's new book...
Christmas is a religious holiday, celebrating an event uniquely important to the Christian faith. The creche is a symbol of that religious holiday. The Supreme Court, though, decided that Christmas is a seasonal holiday as well, and as such, the creche a seasonal symbol. We agree that Christmas has become a secularized, even commercialized, affair and acknowledge that holiday decorations are a familiar, unthreatening fixture...
...perhaps that which was most recalled to me by Bishop Tutu's remarks. Both Tutu and King impressed the listener with their moral certitude that the existing order was unjust, and their faith that injustice can be changed by moral actions of individuals--their common Christian conviction. In those years, it was common to hear the protest of the southern white. "But you can't legislate love." Presumably few expected to see the South come spontaneously into a state of perfect Christian love and then integrate of its own volition. Yet, in the few short years since the Civil Rights...