Word: christianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Must a Unitarian be a Christian? The question has bubbled through Unitarianism for years (temperatures reached new highs last May when the monthly Christian Register changed its name to the Unitarian Register). Last week another vote for the negative was cast when the temporary pastor of Washington's influential All Souls Church used his Sunday sermon to bow out of Christianity...
...Trouble. The politicians in Paris were not much more restrained. The sole gesture of French regret for the treacherous Sakiet bombing was vitiated when Foreign Minister Christian Pineau felt obliged to emphasize that "if France plans to indemnify certain civilian victims [at Sakiet], it is without recognition of any responsibility." The French, in fact, seemed to be under the illusion that Tunisia was still one of their colonies. "Bizerte," said Pineau flatly, "will remain a French base." The only "concessions" the French were prepared to make were ones that served their self-interest, i.e., a proposal...
...wait for the digging; the finds of the past decade-at Harran and Arzawa in Turkey and Dura Europos in Syria-indicate how much more is to come. This week the government of Israel was opening to tourists the latest major discovery: the remains of one of the earliest Christian churches in the world...
What had happened to this once great church that may have echoed to Christian prayers when Augustine was Bishop of Hippo? Prausnitz theorizes that it was probably sacked by Persian King Chosroes I in his 6th century invasion of Syria. Then the winds blew, and the sand swept over the bright mosaic...
...Thrifty. Paul's first divorce shocked his father, a Methodist turned Christian Scientist, but he had recovered enough by 1928 to sell his son a one-third interest in George F. Getty, Inc. for $1,000,000. Just three weeks later Paul took his third wife, Adolphine Helmle, 18, daughter of a German industrialist. That was too much for George Getty. When he died in 1930, he left Paul only $500,000 of his $10 million estate. Most of the rest went to Paul's mother, a tough-minded old lady of sturdy Scots-Irish stock...