Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angel Moroni's trumpet and encased in 173,000 sq. ft. of gleaming white Alabama marble-the interior does not inspire awe. Divided into dozens of rooms on nine levels, the temple has nothing comparable to the great nave and towering sanctuary of a traditional Christian cathedral. Indeed, the Mormon temple is not built for regular worship (that purpose is served by thousands of local "ward" meetinghouses) but for "temple work"-the performances of various church duties and doctrinal study. To the outsider, its rooms seem to serve function rather than majesty...
...Delegate Christian A. Herter Jr. warned that North American food reserves available for emergencies are now down to 27 days of world consumption. "Meanwhile," said Herter, "200,000 more people are born each day and have to be fed." Clearly, a catastrophic famine could some day occur, and Herter's warnings appeared to be merely stating the obvious...
After polling academics and church leaders, the editors of one Roman Catholic and six Protestant denominational magazines published in the U.S. and Canada last week issued a list of eleven "shapers and shakers of the Christian faith...
Among the Protestants, Billy Graham made the top eleven on the strength of the fact that he "has personally spoken to more people, in more places, than any other evangelist in the world's history." Others included United Church of Christ Minister James Gustaf son, professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, whose quiet work, which insists on the importance of ethical rules, "will influence people in the pews"; Rhodesia's black Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, a steady voice for racial equality "whom Rhodesia's black people have learned to trust"; and David...
...eleventh name on the list says flatly that he is no longer a Christian at all: Sioux Indian Lawyer Vine Delorio. But the Indian activist "out of a Christian background ... offers North Americans a stirring call for society's repentance and reform." Whether or not he is a Christian in essence, that presumably qualifies him as a shaker...