Word: discordance
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...fact, according to a survey by Ohio's University of Akron, Evangelicals now surpass even Roman Catholics as the largest sector of active churchgoers, though Catholicism has a vast official membership that counts all baptized infants. The Catholic Church remains powerful, but its esprit is being sapped by theological discord, not to mention declines in attendance at Mass, in parochial-school enrollment and in women's religious orders. The priesthood is attracting fewer and fewer new recruits, so that by the 21st century, many church functions will most likely be performed by laymen--and women. Meanwhile, Evangelicals are making inroads...
...under Nazism and communism. He was a philosopher, poet and dramatist, but also a very experienced fund raiser and administrator. His pastoral experience was determinative. In Poland he had founded and run perhaps the most successful marriage institute in Christianity, set up to deal with the problems of marital discord, family planning, illegitimacy and venereal disease, alcoholism, wife beating and child abuse...
...artist's goal seems to be the presentation of the body as a site of discord, the subject of conflicting, often judgmental gazes, all of which is ultimately irrelevant in the face of mortality...
...almost annual ritual of discussions, debates and discord over ethnic studies has begun again. Most recently, the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC) held a panel discussion with proponents for a ethnic studies department...
...Leonard Jeffries to speak at Harvard, the campus erupted in protest. In large part, students were upset because they felt Jeffries, a well-known anti-Semite, homophobe and Black supremacist, should not be given the honor of a Harvard forum to spout his bigotry. That aside, Jeffries' speech prompted discord because of the utterly fictitious nature of his assertions...