Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Manon" at 5:30 p.m. A bold taleof faith and faithlessness between two strangelyrestless young lovers in the vortex of postwarFrance...
...profusion of couples breaching once impregnable barriers of color, ethnicity and faith is startling. Over a period of roughly two decades, the number of interracial marriages in the U.S. has escalated from 310,000 to more than 1.1 million; 72% of those polled by Time know married couples who are of different races. The incidence of births of mixed-race babies has multiplied 26 times as fast as that of any other group. Among Jews the number marrying out of their faith has shot up from 10% to 52% since 1960. Among Japanese Americans, 65% marry people who have...
Christianity still claims nearly nine-tenths of the populace, according to a City University of New York survey of 113,000 Americans. But talk of a "Christian" nation from the likes of Pat Buchanan and Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice is increasingly misplaced. More accurately, the country's traditional consensus faith is biblical monotheism, which comfortably includes Judaism. Now, however, there is a major new player. Islam, the third great monotheistic faith, is expanding through both immigration and the conversion of African Americans and is bidding to supplant Judaism as America's second largest faith. In 1978 the Interfaith Conference...
...Other faiths are no less assertive in protecting their traditions in the larger society. Hindus have discovered that they must inculcate their faith in their young much more consciously and aggressively than in India, where it could be taken for granted. As new religions find their footing and become bolder, some analysts believe that surprises are in store. Devout adherents of Asian religions, for example, are as uncomfortable as Middle American Protestant Fundamentalists with the sort of secularization that U.S. intellectuals have fostered in education, law, politics, entertainment and the arts. Phong Nguyen, leader of a Vietnamese Buddhist congregation...
...another brief filed in the same case by the National Council of Churches (and other organizations representing more than 100 million Christians in America) it was stated: "the accusations of brainwashing leveled against the Unification Church would indict nearly all religions, because at its core, the theory implicates religious faith itself...