Word: christian
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Lopez is one of Harvard's top baseball recruits this year, an outfielder from Westminster Christian in Miami, a school known for its powerhouse players. Last year his skill at the plate helped lead the Warriors to their second national championship. This spring he may start for Harvard, already a strong team and last year's Ivy League champs...
Only seven of 80 graduating seniors at his highschool are going to college out of state, and heis the first student from Westminster Christian toattend Harvard, he says. In addition, he is one ofthe few Cuban-American players recruited byHarvard...
...baseball all day, all week,everything," Lopez says. "[Westminster Christian]is like a little baseball factory...
What's missing isn't enlightenment, though, not in an intellectual sense. Unfortunately, the group that now speaks for Christianity in this country has all but co-opted it from the rest of us, from what Christianity was at its origins and what it is now, in certain pockets, at its best. Though my Catholic upbringing involved fairly large doses of centuries-old rituals, complete with priests, confessionals, and polyester uniforms, it also included an urgent sense of social justice. One would not know it to hear the "Christian right" (who often could not be less Christian nor more wrong...
...Christianity means believing in the intrinsic beauty of every human being, the beauty of all that was created in the image of God. It means compassion for children, the poor, the suffering, the sick and the imprisoned. Those who invoke the name of Jesus Christ in this country today often forget that he was the child of a working class family, what we would call a "minority" in the Roman Empire, and something of a rebellious teenager. They forget that this traveling rabbi had no riches to speak of, counted prostitutes, beggars and criminals among his principal acquaintances...