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Tule Lake as the wartime internees knew it is gone. Only vestiges survive. To the west, there is Castle Rock, a jagged mountain of sand and stone upon whose crest is a cross, a more permanent version of the one Japanese Christians had placed there Easter morning 1943. But the barracks that were frigid in winter, broiling in summer, and crowded always are gone. What remains now are concrete foundations and a few scattered sections of chain-link fence topped with strands of barbed wire, forcing the visitors to search their hearts and memories to evoke what it once...
Kept Apart. As a show of support for the "Hortonville 84" - as the fired teachers call themselves - 500 Wisconsin teachers poured into town over the Easter recess, staging a mass march and blocking traffic with sitdowns. They were greeted by a truckload of self-styled vigilantes and a group of farmers, who met them at the school with canes and broom handles. Police managed to keep the two sides apart, but the ten days of turmoil resulted in 73 arrests (nearly all for obstructing law officers, with a few for disorderly conduct...
...evangelistic flair could prove useful in a church that is steadily losing its historical grip on the nation. Although the Church of England claims a baptized membership of 28 million people,* only 2.6 million are active enough to vote on parish affairs, and a mere 1.8 million worship at Easter. An equally important sign of church malaise is the declining interest in church work. Only 373 men entered the ministry in 1973, compared with 636 ten years before...
...issue devoid of an Easter motif, running an article on St. Thomas Aquinas [April 15] was a good second best to the Resurrection of Jesus. In an era of philosophical and theological hopscotch, it is good to see that many can appreciate the one who transcends lifestyle, hope, change and the rest. The detractors of Aquinas clearly show that they have not read his works, and those who boast of the vacuous labels conservative or liberal do not realize that the pluralistic venture of seeking harmony between reason and faith has no need of such labels...
Each day, beneath the greening hillside vineyards of Burgundy, the tide of pilgrims swelled larger. Along the French country roads warm with the spring sun, they came with their backpacks and sleeping bags, many on foot, others on motorbikes. By Easter Sunday, 20,000 had registered in the olive green army field tent posted as the "Taizé Community Welcome Bureau." They were young-most of them still in their teens-many of them wearing sweatshirts labeled with such slogans as I FEEL FREE!, SONO TUO FRATELLO! (I am your brother) and DIESES JAHR TAIZE (This year, Taiz...