Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revelations from Yalta again remind me of Christ's prophetic pronouncement: ". . . Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy" . . . And F.D.R.'s pious preachment: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity (love), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal...
Lloyd George, Wilson and Clemenceau were the Big Three at Versailles. Years later, Lloyd George, according to Australia's war time Prime Minister William Morris Hughes, had this apology to make: "I did my best, but seated as I was between Jesus Christ and Napoleon Bonaparte . . ." How we progressed in the 25 years between Versailles and Yalta! I wonder if Churchill will live to say: "I did my best, but seated as I was between Pontius Pilate and Attila...
...brought up in a devout (Brethren in Christ) family, later considered himself a non-sectarian Christian. He was formally baptized in Washington's National Presbyterian Church in a private ceremony two weeks after his inauguration (TIME...
...world's chief repository of early Byzantine art, surpassing even Istanbul, the capital of Byzantium. The ancient churches and chapels of the sleepy Italian town (pop. 35,000) are lit by windowpanes of translucent alabaster and by the glitter and blaze of great mosaics such as the triumphant Christ opposite. Ravenna's mosaics, made of innumerable bits of glass, gold and marble chips stuck in plaster, have neither the drama of Gothic church art nor the human warmth of the Renaissance masters. Yet they are equally great, and gayer than either. Their gaiety expresses the exuberant youth...
When Belisarius and the Eunuch Narses conquered Italy for Justinian in 540, they re-established Ravenna as the Western capital of the Byzantine empire. Justinian and Theodora, his empress, ordered it suitably adorned. The rendering of Christ in armor for the Archbishop's Chapel, a rare phenomenon in art, may reflect the warlike nature of the Byzantines, who held the view that Christianity could and should be spread by the sword. But the Ravenna Christ looks more loving than awesome. A beardless youth, He lightly treads the lion and the serpent while presenting His eternal promise...