Word: convert
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...Lower East Side who rises to become a Cardinal. The actor, a lapsed Episcopalian, spent seven weeks taking Catholic instruction from Paulist priests. For one location scene in Sicily, he performed a Communion rite for 300 extras. Recalls Reeve: "My mother said, 'Call me if you convert.' That didn't happen, but I developed enormous respect for the ritual I was performing." Does this mean he has put away childish things like playing comic-book characters? Lois Lane and other fans of Krypton's finest surviving hunk can relax. Reeve will shortly pull...
...event. "I call myself a Christian," he says, "and if I'm really serious about the religious commands of peace, then I felt I had to do something about nuclear weapons." At Yale, 1,000 people filled the university chapel to hear Evangelist Billy Graham, a very recent convert to the cause, denounce nuclear war as the ultimate sin. In Rochester, Mich., a well-to-do Detroit suburb, a crowd of 500 paid $10 apiece to be enlightened by four speakers, including SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke...
...mother Marita, she was taken 400 miles south to Cedar Bluff, Ala. There, in a secluded lakeside vacation cottage outside of town, Riethmiller says she was subjected to seven harrowing days of harassment and rape. Her parents say she was being deprogrammed. But their daughter was not a convert to some bizarre religious cult. Her parents believed that she had become estranged from them after falling into a lesbian relationship with Thiemann, a friend from high school days. Her daughter was under a form of mind control, said Marita Riethmiller, and "had become like a robot, glassy-eyed." When several...
...eight regions of the world or the fact that fully 605 million Christians must currently struggle against political restrictions on their religious freedom. Nearly two-thirds of the book consists of detailed statistics on religions in countries from Afghanistan (where it is a capital crime for a Muslim to convert to Christianity) to Zimbabwe (where 40% of the people still practice tribal religions...
LIKE EVERY GOOD POLITICIAN, he is trying to convert what may be his weakest point into a strength. Common sense tells most people that experience in a field is essential for success. In what we like to think of as a meritocratic society, people "work their way to the top" of their field. Not always so in politics. Distrust of career politicians is always latent, especially now: Lakian is playing on it for all he can. "I'm going on 40. [former Governor and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate] Michael Dukakis has been running for office since...