Word: churches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend in my House played organ at a small gospel church on Sundays. More and more I spent Sundays on Columbus Avenue in Roxbury. I never joined--I have too many metaphysical doubts ever to be a fundamentalist. But the instinctive comfort in gospel or blues remains with me to this day whether I know the song...
...mind, but were struck by the sudden upsurge of debate over the highly emotional issue of whether drugs should be legalized. On Thursday we switched to the story that appears in the Nation section. It was reported by all our domestic bureaus and written by Senior Writer George Church. Accompanying the main story are examinations of the military's new role in the war on drugs and the Administration's "zero tolerance" campaign against drug consumers...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
Ogene Davis of Atlanta faithfully attended a black church through high school but became deeply troubled that "good" Christians could tolerate a socially and racially unjust world. "Christianity was not working for blacks," he concluded. Karima Omar Kamouneh (nee Virginia Marston) of Burbank, Calif., was raised by devout Episcopalians but felt plausibility was somehow lacking. "I had milked everything out of Christianity, and it still didn't make sense," she relates. Dawud Wong Chun, a Chinese American in Brooklyn, says simply that he thirsted for a "pious, virtuous, fruitful life...
...signs that the Soviets may finally be willing to put more pressure on the Arabs. Gorbachev has publicly urged Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization to recognize the existence and "legitimate rights" of Israel. A Soviet consular delegation is now in Jerusalem, sent officially to discuss Russian Orthodox Church property in Israel but also as a possible prelude to the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, which Moscow broke off during...