Word: confessionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opinion polls, the nation's favorite medium of public confession, document the erosion of Americans' faith in their system. Pollster Louis Harris has been asking over the years how many citizens believe in a series of statements like, "The people running the country don't really care...
As my hands were being tied behind me, I asked for time to pray. I made a full confession before God, occasionally speaking in French and English to confuse the guards, cataloguing my good and bad deeds and begging him to have mercy on my soul. As they blindfolded me...
Why had I been spared? I can only speculate. The mullah and guards who singled me out were obviously acting on behalf of one of the many factions that exist within the militant clergy, a group trying to discredit Ghotbzadeh. They had no official authorization to do anything to me...
The traditional statement of Presbyterian faith had been the lengthy Westminster Confession of 1647. It includes the ancient definition of Jesus Christ as "the second Person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance and equal with the Father." At the second examination last March, Kaseman was...
What had happened in 1967 was that the church broadened its body of creeds and loosened the vows required of new clergy. Presbyterian ministers formerly had to pledge that they "receive and adopt" the Westminster Confession and catechisms. Since 1967 they have only had to promise to be "instructed" and...