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...councils to counter prevalent heresies that threatened to split the church. Those councils insisted that Jesus was really a man, not some sort of divine apparition. But they also asserted that he was the Son of God, part of the eternal Godhead. The first two councils crafted the Nicene Creed, which was formulated by A.D. 381 and has been recited at every Sunday Mass since the llth century: Jesus is "eternally begotten of the Father ... true God from true God ... one in Being with the Father." The Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) refined this further, decreeing that Jesus Christ...
...backs against a wall, a wall of failure. They have nothing more to lose than their farms, and since they will lose those anyway if the cost-price squeeze continues; there is nothing preventing them from following through on their threat, and plowing under their fields. The Farmer's Creed reveals their desperation: "We the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful; have done so much for so long--with so little--we are now qualified to do anything with nothing...
Over 20 centuries, all branches of Christianity barred openly committed homosexuals from the clergy and from lay offices. Virtually all major U.S. churches still do. But the increasingly organized and vocal campaign by homosexuals to be treated just like everyone else poses particular problems for Christian churches. Their creed commands brotherhood and forgiveness, but it also obliges them to defend specific standards of conduct based on the Bible...
...small world of opinion magazines, creed is usually constant. Rarely are readers surprised by where the New Republic, for instance, National Review, Commentary or Atlantic comes down on a given issue. Harper's is something else. The 128-year-old monthly has changed editors three times since 1967, creating a slight zigzag effect. Now the magazine once known for its cheerful progressivism appears to have taken a tendentious turn to the right...
Aiything the rest of the world can do, Dallas can do bigger and better is a local creed that pervades everything from the palatial mansions of Highland Park and the outrageously expensive bagatelles of Nei-man-Marcus to the ample, amply displayed busts of the famous Cowboy cheerleaders. Other teams have cheerleaders, but none has chosen them with so much care as Dallas?and then put them in uniforms with so little cloth. Nearly 700 women try out each fall for the 36 low-neckline, high-kicking jobs. While the Chosen Ones receive little pay ($15 per game), they...