Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seaport town," said Clough, "prostitution is a biological necessity." Christ tried to stop prostitution and failed, he said, "so why should I?" One-armed piracy, however, is not a sporting thing, thought the mayor: "I don't approve of slot machines. Most of them are fixed so they don't pay off anything...
...Mark 3:32-33 Christ's famed question has long been a poser to Biblical scholars. Roman Catholic teaching holds that Mary was perpetually a virgin, and there is an additional Roman Catholic tradition that Joseph was perpetually chaste. If so, who were Jesus' "brothers," named (together with unspecified "sisters") as James, Joseph, Jude and Simon...
...greatly abashed by Father Stowe's joshing of our "anomalous situation." He seems to accuse the Queen of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury of merciful intentions toward Princess Margaret . . . Nevertheless, we do not consider mercy a crime but rather an obedience to a law which Christ considered took precedence over most others. Perhaps mercy does lead to "logical absurdities." God's mercy to us is not logical. How can God at the same time be utterly just and still merciful? It isn't logical; it just happens to be true...
...apparently thought too old-fashioned to keep. The ancient Madonna gazes with Byzantine intensity from eyes wide and dark as night. She has the classic profile and small, thoughtful mouth of late Roman art. Experts agree that the picture must have been painted only four or five centuries after Christ's birth...
...About that time, Biddle took over a Bible class, started a movement called Athletic Christianity that soon won some 200,000 followers around the world. Mixing Bible lessons with boxing bouts, Biddle would tell his young disciples: "I want you boys to go in there and fight as if Christ were the referee...