Word: faithful
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...where Miller currently lives. That public outcry included several personal threats. “At the time, I worried about the safety of my kids,” Miller said yesterday. As the Reynolds Nieman fellow in community journalism, Miller is currently studying respect for civil law in single-faith communities. He said yesterday that he plans to film a documentary in the near future, and he expressed a great optimism for the vibrancy and watchdog role of the media of the United States. “Journalism that serves people’s personal and civic interests...
...Many supporters and critics of the Pentecostal movement agree that a troubling factor is the recent resurgence of the prosperity theology (known, among other terms, as Word of Faith or neo-Pentecostalism), which introduces a material aspect to worship that could be an inducement...
...Harvard African-American studies and religion scholar Marla Frederick says many of the women with whom Bynum's preaching resonates have seen just as many reversals as in their own lives, and they yearn for a God who will ride the roller coaster with them. "Pentecostal faith is really about the power of the Holy Spirit to instantaneously transform life," she says. But she admits she personally is troubled that "taking a personal story and turning it into a narrative of triumph also becomes something that can be marketed for profit...
...give us exciting heroes. The worlds he sketches are too full of cynicism, decay, and dissipation for shining personalities or unambiguous moral champions. But occasionally he gives us someone that we can get behind, a deeply flawed character who struggles mightily with issues of morality and faith and who eventually sacrifices personal happiness to do his duty. Guy Crouchback, the protagonist of Waugh’s 1950s “Sword of Honor” trilogy, is a specimen of this breed. When the middle-aged gentleman is introduced, he seems unlikely to do anything interesting. The only surviving...
...only to be published posthumously in a heavily censored 1966 edition, the book still feels vibrant and relevant today. Harvard students, living in a relatively atheistic—or, at best, agnostic—community, the questions raised in the book about the nature and need of faith reverberate strongly. And aside from the philosophical scintillation the book provides, it’s just downright entertaining...