Word: christian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't really complete the ritual for me. Some years, my family has packed a menorah and candles on overseas vacations because the practice of lighting it is so religiously symbolic and important to us. Christmas lights and trees, on the other hand, are traditional but not mandated by Christian teaching. They are pretty and sentimental but without direct religious symbolism...
...This was the first rally organized by the anti-slavery group that was founded in 1993 by Jacobs, Mohamed Athie, an African Muslim and former diplomat from Mauritania, and David Chand, a South Sudanese Christian activist...
...expect it. In the face of so long an uncertainty, how has his following not only endured but grown so hugely through two millenniums? And what can be expected of his long potent holding power over human imagination and hope in the near and distant future? If benign Christian institutions and the capacity to believe in a God who loves his creation should weaken fatally, if the artistic inspiration of the figure of Jesus should wane--as it has in some of the West today--are the existential promises of his teaching sufficient to maintain a world faith? What else...
...believes himself a direct recipient of such care. Fifteen years ago, as I was about to undergo five weeks of withering radiation for a 10-in.-long cancer inside my spinal cord, I found myself--an outlaw Christian who had, and has, no active tie with a church--transported, thoroughly awake, to another entirely credible time and place. I was lying on the shore of the Lake of Galilee with Jesus' disciples asleep around...
...disappointing fact seems to be that most of the surviving New Testament Apocrypha arose in legitimate attempts to comprehend realities about which the canonical Gospels are mute, and any dogged attempt to read them is apt to leave the reader with one prime reaction--those 2nd and 3rd century Christian editors who decided on the final contents of the New Testament were, above all else, superb literary critics...