Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where do you stand on abortion? Politicians are routinely "asked" this question. "Confronted" might be a better description because for many voters the issue of abortion is a litmus test for separating candidates. Two extreme views on the issue, represented by the Christian Coalition on the right and the National Organization of Women on the left, have dominated the national conversation on abortion. But where does that leave moderates? Where does it leave those struggling to find a satisfactory solution to this mess...
...Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and minister in the Memorial Church, who serves on the Faculty Council on Religion and the Board of Ministry, has said that Memorial Church does not have a definite policy on commitment ceremonies...
...opening scene of the ART's latest production, a boorish captain implores his barber-orderly, Johann Christian Woyzeck, to slow down while shaving him: "Not so fast, one thing after another. You're making me quite dizzy." The orderly, a fidgety and anxious troll of a man, paces back and forth in the spotlight, etching out the confines of the circle. Surrounded by darkness, he nervously darts to his washbowl and glances out into the audience with a fearful and ominous visage. Woyzeck cannot and will not slow down...
...very real history that also shapes how blacks in America react to various issues and experiences (such the O.J. Simpson trials, the Million Man March, and the Crown Heights incident). Danilewitz's own example of Jews being killed in Russia in response to an allegation of murdering two Christian children, for example, strikes me as analogous to the lynching of blacks in the South as a result of far less serious allegations (such as merely looking at white females or operating a successful business). That is to say nothing (as most Americans would prefer) of 244 years of enslavement...
...that's not what you call Christian forgiveness, I don't know what...