Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Archbishop Hunthausen should explain how his refusal to pay half his income taxes complies with Christ's teaching that one should "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." Following the archbishop's philosophy, Catholics in Seattle who do not agree with Hunthausen's position should feel free to cut their financial contributions to the diocese by half...
...that the situation was looking grim. Deaver then convinced the President that policy had to be changed. An order went out through Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, who obediently bowed: a Navy attack submarine initially christened Corpus Christi (which means "body of Christ" in Latin) will be renamed, probably City of Corpus Christi. That persuaded Christian Activist Mitchell Snyder, 38, to end a 64-day protest fast during which he had taken only water and lost 59 of his 185 Ibs. Said Snyder: "We won. We secularized the name...
...ironic that the city in which Christ died to save mankind from its sins is today the center of so much controversy and bloodshed. Your article on Jerusalem makes it clear that talk of bringing Jews and Arabs together so that they can live in peace is wishful thinking. The Israelis are not going to be driven out of Israel, and the Arabs are not going to stop trying to drive them out. I would be very surprised if the world sees Middle East peace in the lifetime of anyone now living. Perhaps the most that can be. hoped...
...powerful, and that is why what he thinks is so important. For the Bible is not a tool to be used by left or right. First must come the belief, and then the action, for truly radical change is internal and individual, and only then is it infectious. Christ, says Leonardo Boff in his Latin American classic Jesus Christ, Liberator, is "the one who disconcerts," the "one who provokes a radical crisis." In white America, though, where oppression at least seems to be somewhere else, it will be much tougher to argue the necessity of a theology of liberation, only...
...rarely been a weapon for justice, and often a tool for subjugation. To answer, there is only the still developing idea that a new sort of Christianity is possible. Or rather, an old sort--a Christianity along the lines suggested by King, by the Latin Americans, and by Christ himself. And then there is this. No other solution, from secular Marxism to rational capitalism, has changed the world too much for the better either...