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Important Viewpoints. Boiled down to resolutions, the ideas went to eleven separate working groups, where the proposals were attacked phrase by phrase as if the participants were drafting a new Nicene Creed. Afterward, each group reported its objections, and the resolutions were once again reworked. "It's impossible," moaned one participant as his group tried to revise three resolutions on the church in society. "We're trying to do in three paragraphs what Vatican II did in one of its longest documents." Yet the results, in the end, were substantial...
Vincent Lombardi set out to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood, but along the way he discovered another religion: football. To it, he brought his special brand of apostolic dedication and evangelical fervor. "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing," was Lombardi's creed, and the scourge was his method. He elevated coaching to the level of mysticism, and his principal disciples-the Green Bay Packers-became the most spectacularly successful team in the history of professional football. Under his messianic lash, the Packers were the rulers of their brutal profession for nearly a decade...
Among the Farmers. Kathryn Kuhlman herself has no elaborate theories about the origin of her apparent gift. The daughter of mixed-creed Protestants (she now belongs to the American Baptist Convention but her services are pointedly nondenominational), Kathryn dropped out of high school after her sophomore year because she "felt a definite call to the ministry." She took to itinerant preaching in Idaho, and for almost two decades "worked in the small places, among the farmers." She hated traditional tent healing services: "the long healing lines, filling out those cards. It was an insult to your intelligence." After visiting such...
...inspired partly by a number of quixotic and unorthodox experiments in social radicalism that have challenged the conservative premises of institutional Catholicism. Her own return began one day in 1967, when she found that her sons' religion class was discussing the inner meaning of the Apostles' Creed rather than the Q. and A. textbook answers of the Baltimore Catechism on which she had been raised. Listening to her children, Francine decided that they were learning nothing she could not accept. She then learned of a new tribe of radical Catholics: priests, nuns and laymen who were challenging both...
...whom this name means nothing will more easily recognize her as the Wicked Witch of the West in the famous movie The Wizard of Oz. My own most admiring recollection of her comes from seeing her play, many years ago, the leading role of the altruistic murderess Ellen Creed in Percy and Denham's Ladies in Retirement that classic of psychological suspense thrillers. It is good to see her in the flesh once again after so long an interval...