Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to me that we should ask the Iranians in the U.S. if they are patriotic and would like to return to Iran to help fight against the invading Iraqi army. Christ P. Zivalich Jr. Honolulu
Southern Baptist Conference President Bailey Smith is right. God does not hear the prayers of any person who says Jesus Christ is not the Messiah [Sept. 29]. Nor does God listen to the needs of every person who calls on him. It has nothing to do with racism, culture or class. (The Rev.) Norman Koop Deerfield Street...
...brings little in the way of creativity or technical resources to his film, only a lot of self-conscious artiness which he takes to its furthest extremes, directorial touches which never coalesce. It all starts with the opening credits, white letters on black background, no sound: "Oh, Christ," you think--"not another American Bergman." Throughout, Redford blunders like the typical autodidact, smothering whatever intuitions he might have about film with a congeries of tony cliches: an aerial shot of a breakfast table, for example, or a shot of a license plate as the family car pulls into the garage...
Your article on Wheaton College [Sept. 22] illustrates what Wheaton and the other members of the Christian College Consortium have so long proclaimed: Christianity does not turn the brain to mush; rather, surrender to Christ results in the freedom to develop fully one's mental, emotional and physical talents...
...widely, mostly according to differing definitions of who should be considered to be an evangelical. Pollster George Gallup uses a three-part definition: someone who 1) describes himself or herself as "born again"; 2) regards the Bible as the literal word of God; 3) encourages others to believe in Christ. On that basis, Gallup calculates 30 million Americans of voting age, or 19% of all U.S. adults, are members of the group...