Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that posits a tyrannical government as its main adversary, the 124-year-old organization is at peak power. Annual revenues for 1994 stood at $148 million, up 16% over the prior year, and membership has surged to a record 3.5 million members. "That's twice as many as the Christian Coalition," boasts Arizona sheriff Richard Mack. At the same time, the N.R.A. has developed a grass-roots network of political activists that, at a time of low voter turnout, is inspiring a new level of fear on Capitol Hill. "We have a political system that rewards intensity," says Thomas Mann...
Meyer, a 44-year-old South African who taught at one of the Christian colleges that gave funds to Bennett, became skeptical after reading a letter out-lining the matching fund-raising offer. He discovered New Era was not actually registered as a foundation. Then he wrote to the Internal Revenue Service office in Philadelphia, requesting New Era's return. He didn't like what he saw, so Meyer took his concerns to college administrators. "I was told it's tough raising funds, and they didn't need my meddling...
...firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon." Cautions Weeks: "I'm not saying that we'll prove the validity of the Bible." But scholars are hungry for any new information about this crucial time in Judeo-Christian history...
Philip Weiss's article on extremist movements, "Outcasts Digging In for the Apocalypse" [COVER, May 1], while attempting to alert your readers to some of the darker elements in our society, ironically generates its own form of paranoia. Most disturbing is the simple insertion of "Christian home-schoolers" into the list of members of the far-right coalition. Of the families I know who educate their children at home, all do so with the goal of providing the best possible education for their children, not as a contribution to some seedy plot. Come...
...tight restrictions on those allowed to attend seminaries. Protestant church leaders who hold unauthorized meetings have been hit with staggering fines. In the past three years, the Puebla Institute, a human-rights group focusing on religious-freedom issues, has documented the detention of more than 100 Buddhist monks and Christian leaders...