Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...society involves two specific sorts of ministry: the education of its members and interested people in the Harvard and greater Boston communities. Thomas L. Matthew '81 says the society's forums provide an opportunity for the group to share Christ with people who might be reached in a forum setting. Saturdays the society holds Bible study sessions during which members and other participants explore further the topics addressed by the forums. Dayna V. Bowen '81, a member, says the small study sessions give interested attendants of the forums an opportunity to discuss more personal and immediate applications of these topics...
...should employ the intellectual as a technician. Professional Black theologians are now transmitting bourgeois values to perpetuate class divisions in the church," he says, adding hierarchies are not appropriate in a Christian church. Bowen concurs, "The church in not an institutional structure. It is a body of believers in Christ." In the final analysis, both Miller and group members agree that the role of the Black intellectual in the church is to interpret and safeguard its Black history and tradition from academics who diminish the Black heritage of Christianity...
...denied his wish to send an uncensored Christmas message to his home archdiocese-was accorded twelve minutes on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to address his countrymen in a taped television spot. Said the Pontiff: "I pray with you for our common fatherland. I recommend to Christ and to his Mother all that has happened in Poland in the past months and, above all, this unity of peace and mutual respect and understanding...
...They had come to Gdansk to honor the memory of 45 workers killed by police and army bullets ten years before in riots along the Baltic coast. At long last a monument had been built: three slender trunks of steel crowned by crosses that bore dark anchors, like stylized Christ figures. To some, the 138-ft.-high sculpture outside the main gate of the Lenin Shipyard symbolized the futile workers' uprisings against Poland's governments in 1956, 1970 and 1976. To others, it recalled specifically the three workers gunned down there early one December morning...
peeling, and all Twelve Apostles eaten away to leprous stumps. Yet, from the head of Christ, like the periscopic eyes of certain fish, two blue glass beads stood out on stalks...