Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like to think that Rasputin stayed dead for a half-century and then, irrepressible, achieved reincarnation, not as one person this time, but as an entire decade--the '60s. This expansive metaphysics would have allowed him to show off all his facets: as holy man and party boy, as faith healer, sexual omnivore, purveyor of mystic salvations and bogus profundities, enemy of soap, hairy narcissist...
...past to mean that its music must have as much intrinsic worth as a Confederate bank note? Every time Rucker opens his mouth and his booming baritone roars out, strong, sure, suffused with history and hidden hurt, it overwhelms the doubts. Nobody is going to take this band's faith away...
...either [RELIGION, April 8]. If it weren't so frustrating, I'd find it amusing that the members of the Jesus Seminar, who call themselves scholars and experts, are arguing about events that took place 2,000 years ago. Christianity and all other religions are in the realm of faith alone, and the best we can do is exercise the freedom to decide for ourselves what is right and believable. MELISSA R. WEBER Atlanta...
...Santa Rosa, California, meeting, "Belief in the Resurrection of Jesus does not depend upon what may or may not have happened to his corpse." But your report noted that in the eyes of a Lutheran layman, the group "said the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was not essential to the faith; and that, in fact, the Resurrection may not have occurred at all." In my view, your readership is ill served by the inability to understand the difference between these statements. I find that most readers do grasp this distinction quite easily, and many appreciate and welcome the insight, believers...
...whom directed Showgirls, have determined that 1.5 billion misguided Christians have an erroneous impression of who Jesus was. A more accurate version of the life of Christ was created by a vote that involved dropping plastic beads into a bucket. Did I miss something? O ye of little faith! ELEANOR MCKEE Honolulu