Word: churchful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ASPIRING CLASSICAL singer Walter Turnbull founded an after-school program for local kids--and soon forgot his operatic ambitions. Launched in a church basement, the Boys Choir of Harlem has performed for Popes and Presidents and on a slew of film sound tracks. It even spawned a music academy. Though the school closed and Turnbull drew criticism following a student's 2001 allegation of sexual abuse by a teacher, the choir continues to educate kids ages 9 to 19. "It's nothing grandiose or big," Turnbull said. "We just try to get kids to understand the importance of simple things...
Karen Tumulty didn't speak of the elephant in the room: the Republican Party. It is bigoted, divisive and hypocritical; it is blurring the lines between church and state, abusing our Constitution, politicizing every agency, bankrupting our economy, flouting congressional oversight, abusing our troops and governing without compassion but with plenty of incompetence. The irony about not speaking about the elephant when talking about the party of the elephant is in itself ironic. Jenna Walden, SEATTLE...
Caroline Kennedy's report on children who volunteer for community service in the City Year Young Heroes program was inspiring and informative [March 26]. But let's not forget the thousands of kids who crisscross the nation every summer to attend church work camps. These teens work in cities, towns and villages, building, painting and just plain helping people. The youngsters pay their own way, take their own tools and buy all the supplies. Theresa Lorbiecki, MILWAUKEE...
...Catholicism and Anne's Protestantism, the faith of a nation depended on a monarch's lust. "Our biggest enemy is terrorism," says Charles Beem, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. "Theirs was the Reformation. You can't overestimate how traumatic the changes in the church would have been." You might get close if you imagined that Monica Lewinsky had been a radical Islamist and Bill Clinton married her and made everyone convert...
...women on the sidelines of the Tudor era. The Other Boleyn Girl depicts Henry's claustrophobic court from the perspective of Anne's sister Mary, who also bedded the young King but apparently wasn't charming, cunning or foolhardy enough to get him to create a new church to close the deal...