Word: conflicted
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DIED. Marsh Clark, 56, a TIME correspondent for 22 years whose career as bureau chief in New York City and six foreign countries frequently took him to centers of combat and conflict, including Saigon (1968-70), Jerusalem (1970-72 and again during the October War of 1973), Moscow during the waning of detente (1975-78) and, since 1980, volatile South Africa; of cancer; in Johannesburg...
Such a coalition depends upon whether the Evangelicals are prodded toward Fundamentalism, which could become a major ground for Protestant conflict. By far the biggest prize would be ideological leadership of the huge Southern Baptist Convention. The S.B.C. Fundamentalists last June scored their seventh and perhaps pivotal annual win in balloting on the denomination's president, re-electing Atlanta's Charles Stanley. Through presidential appointments, the well-organized right wing intends to take control of seminaries and other agencies away from moderate conservatives. Such a shift would greatly influence U.S. Protestantism...
...Americans share that style of religion without really being Fundamentalists. At its heart, the movement is cemented by two things: an unbudgeable belief in the word-for-word accuracy of the entire Bible and a spirit of militant resistance to anything in church or society that is thought to conflict with scriptural commands. The Bible is considered "inerrant" as it was originally written. That means the Good Book is free of error not only in spiritual and moral teaching but in all historical details. According to this view, miracles, whether the Virgin Birth of Jesus or the parting...
Even Lebanon, a country that has suffered more than 100,000 dead in a decade- long civil conflict between its Christian and Muslim warlords, was shaken by the vengeful frenzy of violence it experienced last week. By the time a Syrian-brokered cease-fire slowed the fighting on Thursday, the twelve-day death toll stood at more than 300 people, nearly half of them victims of a vicious car-bomb war that made every street a potential deathtrap. Health and Communications Minister Joseph Hasham, a Christian, spoke for a large segment of the country when he said, "Eighty percent...
...hope that conflict is not inherent in the system," said Jewett, who added that he did not think any change in the job's duties was necessary...