Word: communion
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They turned their faces toward Brezhnev's head for a moment of silent communion, then filed out, past the honor guard...
Northerners should watch Wallace with his people. The process is tribal, a rite of communion. Only by watching it can one begin to analyze the disconcerting news that a fairly large number of Alabama blacks have, in 1982, joined the Wallace tribe...
...A.E.L.C.) in Cleveland, the three Lutheran churches voted by thunderous majorities to agree, in principle, to unite. After applause and some tears, the conventions then used long-distance telephones to pray together: "Call us now to ever deeper levels of unity; gather us as long-dispersed Lutherans into richer communion...
Extending their ecumenical spirit even further last week, the three Lutheran conventions authorized occasional "interim" sharing of Communion with Episcopalians, making official what already often happens unofficially in some parishes. Significantly, the Episcopal Church at its New Orleans convention overwhelmingly passed a companion measure. The actions neither establish full intercommunion nor resolve outstanding doctrinal differences. But in history's long run they could prove even more important than the moves to unite the Lutherans...
...being a commodity eagerly sought in the Top 40-but it receives reverential notices. It also gets the Thompsons to America, Richard's first real visit in ten years, Linda's first ever. Their appearances become events. They are rites of passage for novitiates, acts of communion for initiates. The Thompsons in performance put on shows of acetylene brilliance, but these events for them are something else entirely. They are an ending...