Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps to compensate, some admirable men are striking out on their own. First, we have the Promise Keepers (PK). PK is a mass, Christian-based movement of men known for filling football stadiums with men who repent their sins and shortcomings, and then promise to be stronger husbands, fathers and spiritual leaders. Tomorrow, in its largest event ever, PK will attract hundreds of thousands of men to the Washington Mall. Those (improved) men will then return to their homes and churches, joining the small, PK-influenced men's groups that now populate one-third of churches nationwide. Second, we have...
...that chapter, Gould retraces the history of malfunctioning Christian calendars back to a monk named Dionysius Exigus who began the A.D. calendar at the year 1 rather than the year zero. From there sprang the simmering academic debate over whether the new millennium begins on Jan. 1, 2000, or one year later. Based on extensive research of fin de siecle newspapers and magazines, Gould observes that pop culture has generally favored the 1999 New Year's Day as the dawning of the new century. The other view "has always been over-whelmingly favored by scholars and by people in power...
...short, there was a scary layer of cultural ignorance underlying Pacheco's letter. The kind of cultural ignorance about his own American society that leads him to talk in almost jocular terms about the white supremacist and anti-Semitic prone World Church of the Creator-a core Christian identity group-as if it were just some silly old bunch or "group of horrible people." -Martin Kilson, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government
...Christian Coalition and Alabama Governor Fob James mobilized to support Judge Moore. Having commanded national attention, the controversy has yet to be resolved...
Leverett House Committee, Co-Chair; H-R Students of Operation Smile, President/Co-Founder; Chamber Music at Mather; Uni-Lu Homeless Shelter; Christian Impact...