Word: communion
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...questions have plagued me ever since budgetary concerns exiled me from the glossy, dust-jacket-rich world of new books, and seem especially pressing as shelves of used books line the Coop at the beginning of a new semester. New books had always seemed to me a means of communion with the author and his ideas; used books transform that communion into a conference call...
...education and accounting. She taught high school business and authored sample problems for McGraw-Hill textbooks on the side. When Watkins was 14, her parents divorced. While they weren't the first Tomball couple to split up, it was a move radical enough that their church had refused communion to another divorce. But Harrington was hardly fazed. "I am going up there and kneeling, and I dare them not to give me communion," she told Watkins at the time. The minister did not pass...
...Certainly my mother is still setting the example for me to follow. My parents divorced when I was 14. Divorce wasn't that common back then, especially in the Lutheran Church. [My mother] said, "I am going up there and kneeling, and I dare them not to give me Communion...
...wear a collar or give Communion, and he may be formally stripped of his status. If he maintains his innocence, he can appeal to the Vatican...
...tonight's little gaffes and unexpected epiphanies, at this moment, for their art and your pleasure. At its best a play restores, for a few hours, the age of belief. It gives you the shiver of a sacred rite, in a secular cathedral, and what you experience is communion. Can't get that with a book, where it's just you and the words. Can't get it at the movies, where the performers have been caught in aspic, and the snowman is cryogenically preserved. Only theater traps and enfolds you in the present tense - and then it is past...