Word: confessionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Safire is widely acclaimed as a stylist. Indeed, his weekly columns on language in the Sunday Times Magazine and more than 100 other newspapers evoke more mail, much of it combative, than his weekday political "Essay." Says Safire: "When people notice I have made an error, their eyes light up...
The major difference between the two churches involves doctrine. The faith of Southern Presbyterians is summed up by the Westminster Confession, laid down in 1647 by an order of the English Parliament. Since 1967, the Northern Presbyterians have broadly accepted a number of creeds as their standards of faith, in...
James Andrews, the Stated Clerk (chief administrator) of the P.C.U.S., says that for Southern congregations the bailout provision is "an invitation to play five years of hardball to see if we can make this church work. If not, then we'll just kiss one another goodbye." Southern conservatives will...
Though she says she has stopped writing to teacher her course, Bok seems to have wasted little time before planning future projects. Secrets contained a chapter on the ethics of religious confessions, and this subject has attracted Bok further. Her next book, she says, will be about "literary confessions," and...
According to published reports of his confession to Italian Judge Ilario Martella last year, Agca contended that during a seven-week stay in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia in 1980, he was offered $1.5 million to kill the Pope. The man Agca said made the proposition is Bekir Çelenk...