Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dean said the reverend preaching the sermon illustrated an analogy between the struggle for equality and baseball, naming first base faith, second hope, third charity, pitcher Christ, shortstop love, catcher the holy ghost, batter the devil, and the umpire God. The reverend then said that theumpire would call the devil out, and slavery out,and segregation...
...being caught up in the singing." Listening to Aretha Franklin's graceful flight through the softly powerful hymn Never Grow Old, or the Barrett Sisters' vocal exodus through the redemptive gospel song I Don't Feel Noways Tired, one cannot help being caught up, regardless of one's personal faith. Wade in the Water is a deluge of joy that sweeps the listener away...
When people describe Collins, they do so in oddly contradictory terms. Thus he is said to be one of the most compassionate people in the world, and also one of the most aggressive. He is a skeptical prove-it-to-me scientist but is also capable of deep religious faith. He is as intent on the impression he is making as any politician up for re-election. Yet he appears to be utterly unpretentious, preferring to dress casually in jeans and, when he rides his Honda Nighthawk 750 motorcycle, a black leather jacket. (On one of his motorcycle helmets...
...important to him, he had become a devout Christian, focusing on what had previously seemed an irrelevant corner of life. While living in the campus town of Ann Arbor, Collins and his wife helped start a Baptist church. The congregation -- and his marriage -- has since dissolved, but his faith, which he describes as basically nondenominational, endures...
...feverishly with that risk. The mobs on the casino floors are in a kind of murmuring trance, each middle-aged housewife or young lawyer at the slots or the poker tables mentally grappling with a nonstop flow of insane hunches and wishful superstitions, continuously driven to unworthy leaps of faith that result in unwarranted bursts of self-esteem (Blackjack!) or self- loathing (Craps...