Word: ezekiel
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...fledgling company employed a 19-year-old engineer named Ezekiel Straw, who would later become Governor of New Hampshire, to lay out a brand-new town. Straw produced one of the most cohesive urban designs in the country. With the millyard as the heart of town, he provided for a commercial district, corporation tenements, housing lots, a cemetery, public buildings and six public commons. The company donated land for schools and churches. The first building-which is among those to be wrecked-went up in 1838, the last in 1915. Over the century of Amoskeag's existence, the architectural...
...Roman equivalent of a UFO wave in 218 B.C. Several drawings show tubes and spheres seen over Nürnberg in 1561. Saucer advocates even read UFO sightings into Shakespeare's King Henry VI ("Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns") and into the Bible, where Ezekiel describes a strange craft coming from the sky and landing close to the Chebar River in Chaldea. During World War II, Allied pilots had numerous encounters with "foo-fighters," mysterious luminous globs that flew alongside their airplanes. In 1946, there were thousands of sightings in Sweden of what were first...
...Common Task. When they consider the teachings of the churches, many theologians today are inclined to ask themselves the question put to Ezekiel: "Can these bones live?" How, in the secular era, can the church proclaim Christ in words that the world will hear? There is no easy answer, although many churchmen agree on some qualities that any theology of the future must have. It will be ecumenical. "Renewal is the invitation to a common task," says the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Küng. "Everything today is interdependent." It will be existential. "Theology is overdeveloped in systems and arguments...
...Besides Mills, who weighs 170, the all Democratic delegation includes Senator J. W. Fulbright, 165, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; Senator John McClellan, 180, chairman of the investigation-prone Government Operations Committee; Representative Oren Harris, 165, chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; Representative Ezekiel C. Gathings, 168, noted mainly for his investigation of obscene literature; Representative James W. Trimble, 155, the delegation's No. 1 liberal...
According to Williamson, the Bible points out other sins that led to Sodom's destruction, such as idolatry and refusal to "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49). "The correct understanding of Sodom," he says, "is of a proud, self-satisfied, materialist society, acting with callous inhospitality to man and at the same time rejecting the true worship...