Word: faithful
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...stubborn willfulness; to impose such conditions on children should be considered criminal. But Pennsylvania, where the Nixon children died, and 45 other states have religious exemptions in their child-abuse and -neglect laws, denying the 14th Amendment right, equal protection under the law, to children of members of the Faith Tabernacle, the Christian Science Church and various other sects. When child-protection groups have petitioned legislatures to remove these exemptions, the legislators have bowed to church lobbying and refused. If parents of children dead for lack of medical care have "suffered enough," legislators have not. MARION S. COOLEY Wyoming, Ohio...
...trusting parishioners with rubbish and for distorting Scripture. Nowhere does the Bible say that sick children should be denied proper medical treatment or that it's "God's will" for children to die. "Freedom of religion" doesn't mean condoning murder. How many more children must die before the Faith Tabernacle Congregation is shut down and the pastor defrocked? (The Rev.) SALLY L. CARPENTER Seelyville...
...such nice people [on the staff]. They add a lot to the Harvard community. You think I'm kidding, but I'm not," says Sarah N. Glass '97, who says the HDS are the best administrative group at Harvard. "The food is important but they make a good faith effort and it's as good as you can expect...
...culture raised in immigration, through the piling of arrival upon arrival in an adopted land, cannot escape feelings of alienness. A faith in redemptive newness is what makes up for the whisper of unease at the loss of origins. Both are present in the growth of American art and architecture, which begin weakly and derivatively in the 17th century but acquire seemingly irrefutable power by the late 20th...
...settlers in the Northeast, the Quakers, led by William Penn, despised most arts. Music was a distraction, poetry (beyond the simplest hymns) a snare. So the lack of Quaker painting is hardly a surprise, though some artists--most conspicuously Benjamin West--came from Quaker families and left the faith. The only painter who lived and died a Quaker was the Philadelphia "primitive" Edward Hicks (1780-1849), and he felt moral qualms about...