Word: christly
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Crossroads Jumble. The ancient city has seen the glory and decline of two empires. Founded by the Greeks six centuries before Christ, and chosen as the site of a new Rome by the Emperor Constantine in A.D. 330, the city was known first as Byzantium. As Constantinople, it was a world capital for 1,100 years until it fell in 1453 to the founders of a new empire, the vigorous Turks of the Ottoman Conqueror Mohammed...
...Churches of Christ are the result of a split from the Disciples of Christ in 1906 over questions of how literally the New Testament picture of the church should be followed. Says Young: "Each generation must interpret the Bible for itself. We believe that in this way each generation can remain nearer pure Christianity. If our generation were to write down its interpretation of the Bible, in another 100 years we would be just another denomination." Young's flock calls him Brother rather than the "Doctor" to which he is entitled (he has an M.A. from Vanderbilt University...
Binding Force. Today the Churches of Christ number some 1,200,000 baptized members in 15,000 fully autonomous churches. Brother Young is the nearest thing to a binding force among them; he edits Twentieth Century Christian, a monthly magazine promoting Churches of Christ beliefs, writes and edits (with his wife Helen) a bimonthly of daily devotional reading called Power for Today, and a weekly column for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal. Next week he leaves Lubbock for Los Angeles, where he will head George Pepperdine College, one of four senior colleges run on Churches of Christ principles and supported...
...Charles I of England was beheaded in London's Whitehall Palace. British Author Hugh Ross Williamson has joined the round-by-round school of writers who have lately described what happened on the night the Titanic went down, the day Christ died, and other fateful brief moments in world history. Like the others, he has brought nothing new to his main story, but his detailed preoccupation with dramatic incident has concocted in The Day They Killed the King a captivating capsule of history, one easy to take at a single gulp...
...sent a signed blank sheet of paper to Parliament agreeing to anything that would save his father's life, and a similar document to Charles, the King tossed it into the fire. Always a religious man, he found comfort in the thought that he would soon be with Christ, and always a meticulous one, he dressed for his execution as if for an occasion of state. Instructing his barber, he said: "Though it has not long to stand on my shoulders, take all the care you can of my head...