Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says much of the course is devoted to trying to understand a culture in which the gods are presented visually, "since most of us--Christian, Jewish, or secular--grew up in a context in which the gods didn't have 5 heads and 10 arms." Eck adds that Hindu myths are "not abstract stories that you learn at your mother's knee, like Greek mythology, but are actually imprinted on the landscape...
Blue laws are a vestige of Massachusetts' Puritan heritage, intended to protect the Christian Sabbath as a day of rest. In today's secular and diverse society, they are increasingly irrelevant. Clinging to these laws not only fails to recognize the changing religious practices of the state and the country, but also fails to recognize the proper limitations of the laws themselves...
...result is an appeal that permeates Christian and secular worlds both. Gomes' sermons compel his audience to capitalise on their talents--even if they are unsure about what those talents are. As Gomes likes to tell his undergraduates, "You all have a future. You just don't know what it is yet." The contagion of his passion is unavoidable; we emerge from his sermons feeling inspired, not just about spirituality, but, remarkably, about who we are. Gomes knows that "words influence. Words are power." In his new books Sermons, he concentrates the power of 40 his most compelling homilies...
...capacity to speak to our ever evolving set of our circumstances." His book adapts and interprets these truths for all parishioners. And he adds the welcomed reassurance that "We have no right to expect all of you to become like Mother Theresa." In instructing how to be a Christian without being a saint, Gomes writes about the universal struggle that puts spirituality at something more than familiarity with the Bible: "In an anonymous and indifferent world, it is...our hope to make something more of our time here than mere survival or existence...
Blumenthal said his remarks were based on a New Yorker article. The article suggested that Ewing prosecutes "with a presumption of guilt" and believes religion is a motivating factor in his life. It also described Ewing as a "born-again" Christian who prays daily and does not drink...