Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the book includes only Christian authors, Monroe said, "it's a celebration of diversity in a lot of ways...
Spirituality is not necessarily other-worldly and fey, although it is frequently portrayed as such. As your report suggests, spirituality manifests itself in some enormously practical ways, such as physical healing. But you make it sound as though Christian Scientists consider spiritual engagement merely a "paramount medical technique." To us, spirituality is the natural outcome of an understanding and loving God, whom we believe to be the Spirit. ENID M. GORMAN New York City...
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana: Trying once again to shrug off his former titles as Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, David Duke is hoping for a new label: U.S. Senator. Duke entered the U.S. Senate race on Wednesday, promising to fight for America's white, Christian heritage if he's elected. "I am not a racist and not a Nazi sympathizer," Duke retorted angrily to questions about his past. Duke said his main focus will be to restore and protect "the prosperity, the heritage and freedom of this country." According to Duke's home page on the Internet, heritage...
...program will probably never be implemented. And maybe that's not such a bad thing. One could successfully argue that once a mandatory moment of quiet has been approved, it will be considerably easier for the religious right and their political sympathizers to obtain their aim of compulsory Christian liturgy. Politicians can ruin anything, even something as simple as 60 seconds of silence...
Whatever its provenance, Elizabeth Dole's Christian commitment also yields political dividends. Charles Black, former chairman of Senator Phil Gramm's presidential campaign, affirms that "she has tremendous appeal to Christian conservatives and people in the evangelical movement because they know she's active in the movement." They may have doubts about Bob Dole, who sometimes seems to regard God as a junior Senator from an unimportant state, but they don't harbor any about his wife. Even within the Dole household, politics and religion have not mixed perfectly. When a new minister joined the Foundry Methodist Church...