Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Colson favors Christian activism by individuals and special-purpose groups but believes that because modern America is a pluralistic society, it is "not only wrong but unwise" to try to make doctrine the basis for public policy. He is wary of official political stands by religious groups, except in the case of such manifest evils as slavery and Nazism. Though against rigid church-state separation, Colson argues that each institution has a distinct, God-given role. Churches should emphasize spirituality and avoid the corrupting enticements of political power. Similarly, he opposes government- organized school prayers, insisting that "propagating moral vision...
From the age of four, Brian Batey, now 16, has been caught in a bitter custody battle between his Christian Fundamentalist mother and his homosexual father. Rather than comply with a 1982 court order awarding Brian to her former husband, Betty Lou Batey disappeared with the boy for 19 months before surrendering to authorities in 1984. Brian returned to live with his father Frank and Frank's longtime lover, Craig Corbett, in Palm Springs. But when Frank Batey died of AIDS in June, his mother once again tried to get him back...
...even Hans Christian Andersen could invent a presidential candidate as ugly-duckling as Simon: floppy earlobes, horn-rimmed glasses, a putty-like face and a bow tie. Yet the rumble-voiced Illinois Senator has magically emerged as a swan in the Democratic race, partly by playing on his rumpled lack of glamour. Staring into the camera at the end of the first Democratic debate in July, he intoned, "If you want a slick packaged product, I'm not your candidate. If you want someone who levels with you, who you can trust, I am your candidate." Something in that simple...
...Ruth Simon were Lutheran missionaries in China before Martin accepted a pastorate in Eugene a month prior to the birth of their oldest son Paul in 1928. In the early 1930s, the Simons began publishing religious pamphlets out of their home, as well as a monthly magazine called the Christian Parent. Ruth Simon recalls, "When we went into business, we didn't have a dime of our own." A monthly treat was a Sunday after-church lunch at the Rex Cafe in downtown Eugene, where Paul and his younger brother Arthur would order chicken a la king for 35 cents...
...stage and to bring together Lucy, Ralph Kramden and other memorable sitcom characters in a single overlapping story for a TV special. Eventually the two plans sort of fused. Instead of the sitcom figures, the authors decided to jumble larkingly together the characters and archetypes popularized by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. The strikingly original yet completely accessible result opened on Broadway last week...