Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elvis Presley was an only child, also Leonardo da Vinci, Nancy Reagan, Robin Williams, Brooke Shields, Joe Montana, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Chelsea Clinton, Hans Christian Andersen..." Environmentalist Bill McKibben provides this enigmatic list in Maybe One, the latest in a series of gloomy, worthy, admonitory volumes he began in 1989 with The End of Nature. The new book is an effort to persuade couples, maybe, to consider--the author is excruciatingly tactful--reducing the strain on the earth's resources by having only one child...
...August 1997, Shattuck wrote an article for The Christian Science Monitor that emphasized the importance of punishing those in Rwanda guilty of committing atrocities...
...sisterhood is getting crowded with similar Christian groups. The women's ministry of James Dobson's Focus on the Family expects to pull in tens of thousands of participants at five conferences this year, and African-American pastor T.D. Jakes will host a "Woman, Thou Art Loosed!" rally at Atlanta's Georgia Dome this week. But WOF attracts more followers than its competitors. Attendance has grown from 36,000 in 1996 to 156,000 in 1997 to a projected 350,000 by year's end. It is a subsidiary of New Life Clinics, a private company that is the largest...
...upbeat dispensers of inspiration, such as Sheila Walsh, author of Never Give It Up, and Barbara Johnson, of Where Does a Mother Go to Resign? To enhance the illusion of intimacy, the speakers eschew the talk-and-run approach customary at most mass gatherings and listen intently to soft Christian rock and tales of hard knocks...
...same weekend that Women of Faith members were cheering in Oregon, their male counterparts in Promise Keepers were trying to stage a comeback at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan. The originator of the single-sex Christian rally, Promise Keepers created a sensation with its enormous get-together in Washington last October. But that spectacle belied the organization's bleak finances, and P.K. soon announced it was shredding a projected $117 million budget. At the end of March, it laid off its paid staff of 345. At the Washington rally, the head Promise Keeper, Bill McCartney, boldly announced that P.K. would...