Word: faithful
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Clairmont isn't alone in her troubles. Another keynote speaker was hospitalized for depression, another lost two of her sons, a third was abandoned by her father. Their burdens differ, but they are all Women of Faith, adherents of an evangelical Christian movement that is rapidly becoming both complement and antidote to the all-male Promise Keepers. And despite the problems, the tenor of the weekend becomes resolutely cheerful. "Joy" is invoked almost as frequently as God. Members of Women of Faith don't trade promises or admonishments; they swap stories and compliments. Since 1996, when the for-profit enterprise...
...Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, toward which Catholic and Lutheran theologians have been toiling since 1967. Some of the Vatican's fine print was shockingly critical of the text, but it let stand without objection the Declaration's grandest statement: "Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works." Half a millennium of strife is not instantly undone; last week's participants, unlike...
...Testament, Luther considered St. Paul's letter to the Romans. Human "works," preached Paul, could not affect anyone's eternal life; "Justification"--the state of being right with God --was based on a single principle. "On the principle of works?" Paul asked. "No, but on the principle of faith." And faith resulted not from human striving but from God's grace...
...grace alone; through faith alone" became the slogan of Luther's followers. In the short run its consequences included his excommunication by a furious church, much of whose power derived from "works"; and the formalization of additional grievances by Catholic and Protestant sides into anathemas, or catalogs of heresies. In the long run differences over justification can be seen as shaping the subsequent divided character of Western Christianity: Catholicism's continuing emphases on hierarchy, communalism and good works, and Protestantism's intense individualism...
...while finding a good device is relatively painless, getting cellular service, I quickly learned, is about as easy as picking a cardiologist: be ready for lots of critical choices, often involving leaps of faith and a disturbing amount of fine print. (Did you know that "free weekends and nights" often means after you use up your monthly allotment of prime-time minutes...