Word: exception
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...theological problems can arise when Africanization uses symbols and myths from the pre-Christian faiths. Fearing syncretism in a continent where communion with the spirits and ancestors remains a powerful belief, most Protestants are exceedingly cautious about all the visual arts. Zaire's indigenous Kimbanguist Church strictly forbids decoration except on preachers' and singers' robes. But many Anglicans, once hesitant, are enthusiasts for the new church art. Methodist theologian Dkalimbo Kajoba encourages art so long as it is for "decoration," not "adoration...
...lost among the choices. The first sweater he bought with Henderson's help struck him as so ugly, so splotched with color, that he left it hanging in his room for a week. But people loved it, people who'd never looked at him twice, except in dismay. So he is meekly agreeable when Henderson puts him in a midnight blue Giorgio Armani suit with tone-on- tone striping. "To me, that's a front-of-the-room look," she declares...
...Basically, after losing the first game, a close game, it was all downhill--except for the awesome third set," Crimson hitter Bennett Johnson said. "We were playing with our heads down. It was our attitude, not [the lack of skills], that destroyed...
...body builder myself, I don't mean to disparage the muscle beach culture. Except when it begins to obscure the reality of true fitness. Any body builder will point out that diet is about 70 percent of intensive training...
Meet Take 6, the hot new gospel group whose performers, all devout Seventh- day Adventists, are as much in the business of preaching as entertaining. The six men, who perform with no instruments except their heaven-sent voices, count themselves among the world's more unusual evangelists. "Our mission," says bass Alvin Chea, "is to take the word of Christ into places it doesn't ordinarily go." Founder Claude McKnight III says of the group's Christian message, "It's not a gimmick for us. It is our lives...