Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other voices in the land were equally stern. The contemplated marriage, said an Episcopal minister in Scotland, would be "an illicit union . . . adding something very like the sin of apostasy to the violation of Christ's marriage law." The head of Britain's Methodist Conference granted the Princess' right to marry a divorced man. but he was no less firm than the Anglicans in denying Margaret and her prospective issue the right to ascend the throne...
...wives and children with full pockets. On Saturday night, when the sombreroed braceros jammed the streets and shops, Baptist Hernandez sent his preaching teams fanning out through town. Stationing himself in front of the Safeway store, he soon had his Mexican listeners pressing forward to make "decisions for Christ"-though some were just being amiable to the young man in fine clothes who played the wonderful, sad music. None of the Mexicans were baptized during the crusade; their names and addresses were merely taken with the intention of sending them on to the nearest Baptist mission in Mexico. Although most...
...work of an expert at making a good thing out of the Good Book. As the high priest of the Neo-Apocrypha or Bible-improvement school of writing, Sholem Asch, 75, has racked up sales of more than 1,000,000 by gilding such subjects as the lives of Christ (The Nazarene), St. Paul (The Apostle), Mary and Moses. This time Asch has raided the Bible for the story of the second Isaiah, who roused the Jews out of their Babylonian captivity.* The book's religious message is swaddled in what Hollywood calls "production values...
Under this social program, conceived by William Burns of the Christ Child Settlement House, ten PBH workers will organize local teen-age boys into ten groups of approximately ten boys each. These workers will submit reports to a central committee including clergymen, grammer school principals, YMCA officials, the chief of police, Burns and Donlan. "In organizing these boys we will not attempt a rehabilitation of the whole section," Donlan said. "These groups will test the effectiveness of the plan against delinquency...
...Christian Middle Ages at first simply and starkly re-enacted Christ's burial. Later, the ceremonials of death became complicated, e.g., many families employed a "sin-eater" who took the dead man's sins upon himself by eating a loaf of bread and drinking a bowl of beer over the corpse. Embalmers, whose craft the book covers in the most intimate detail, advanced steadily (one notable medieval corpse was preserved in olive catsup). It was Leonardo Da Vinci, the father of modern embalming, who developed the method of intravenous injection which was adopted in 17th century England. There...