Word: devouting
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Students who are religiously observant here sometimes participate in groups that provide fellowship and common worship, while others often do so quietly, but decisively. My first-year roommate, a devout Mormon, took seriously the commandment "to keep the Sabbath holy." She never did school work on Sundays. Even before final exams, she would study for the first part of the weekend then would rise early on Monday morning to finish whatever she had left undone. She used her Sunday as a day of reflection, prayer, church activities and "catching up" with family and friends...
...nation where nearly three of four people support the death penalty and far fewer than one in four is a devout Catholic, another sermon is unlikely to change many minds. Worse, the pope's words were further undermined by his actions. Both in person and through an aide, he lobbied the Missouri governor to grant clemency to Darrell Mease, a coldblooded killer of three...
...death-wish fantasies go, none of those is anywhere near as satisfying as our fading images of nuclear war, which had the great advantage of plausibility. By comparison, most religious versions of Armageddon (the biblical episode) seem as unreal as Armageddon (the sci-fi film). Even most devout Christians don't expect that any time soon they will see the seven-headed beast from The Revelation of St. John, the New Testament's dense and cryptic vision of the last things. But in these final days of the 20th century, religious millennialism has once again found a real world problem...
Months ago, doctors told Nkem Chukwu they couldn't be sure, but they thought she was probably carrying seven fetuses. She and her husband--devout Christians, Nigerian-born U.S. citizens--refused to abort any of them. "I wasn't even going to give it a second thought," she said last week as she was dismissed from St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston. God had blessed her, she explained, and she declared her babies "unique...
...then, her image was always shaped by his needs; don't be too visible, too feminist, too liberal. But however willing and complicit she was in all her physical and ideological makeovers along the way, the crisis in August went directly to the soul of her identity as a devout, practicing Christian. In the days following his confession, Bill Clinton left her with an excruciating choice. She might want to kill him for what he had done to her and their daughter, refuse to let him get away with it--but she could not do that and still call herself...