Word: faithfully
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That might have come naturally to Dole; but instead he tried something harder. He tried to change. For the entire first half of the race, his fear of Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan was enough to shake his faith in running as himself, a pragmatist against the ideologues, one who was willing to "downsize government, [but] not devastate it," as he said in May 1995. When Buchanan started peeling the paint off the walls with his talk of America's greedy corporations, Dole was suddenly George Meany, denouncing corporate layoffs. Soon his campaign was a battleground state...
...will be no issues at all. Fundamentalists, Evangelicals and Orthodox Jews are well aware of the moral flaws of the book's human characters. But since they regard the entire book as the saga of God putting humanity on trial rather than the reverse, these imperfections will not challenge faith. Nor would they have perturbed the work's original audience, maintains Southern Baptist professor Kenneth Mathews, an Old Testament scholar at Alabama's Samford University who has just published his own commentary, Genesis 1-11. "Moses' Israel would come to read the opening chapters through their eyes of faith...
...there are many in America who will accept only a God who approaches them, or can be approached, within the context of their own culture. And there are others of traditional faith who will forgive Moyers' lack of orthodoxy for the opportunity he provides to mine for Scriptural treasure. A Living Conversation, Moyers says, "is aimed at anyone who finds these subjects and this kind of conversation worth their time," and he thinks that number is growing. "I find in my own life and in the lives of other people a yearning for an authentic experience. This series may pass...
DAVID VAN BIEMA reread the Book of Genesis three times--in three different translations--in preparation for writing this week's cover story. He was impressed not only with the book's importance as "one of the ultimate faith statements in our culture" but also with its power as "the granddaddy of family sagas." The reaction was typical of Van Biema, who is fascinated with how issues of faith affect both the secular and religious communities in America. In this, he was guided by the expertise and reporting of TIME's longtime religion correspondent Richard Ostling. The revival of interest...
...every ten ideas that cross L.B.J.'s desk,' says a colleague, 'five must be Bill's.' He is the editor who hands out assignments to several speechwriters and gives their effort the penultimate polish (Lyndon, naturally, has the final say)...Perhaps the greatest measure of the President's faith in his judgment was the role he played when Lyndon Johnson underwent surgery...Somebody had to be empowered to decide whether to transfer the...presidency to Vice President Hubert Humphrey in case of a crisis. That somebody was Moyers...