Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then, does the exposure of Boggs, though so much less important, feel so much more plangent than the rejection of Tower? Perhaps because we place more faith in our athletic superstars, and expect more faithfulness in return. Heroism is famously a game of inches: get a little too close to a role model, catch him at the backstage entrance, and the loss can be desolating. Admiration is itself a form of suspended disbelief; turning a blind eye can be as much an act of forgiveness as turning the other cheek. We cannot afford to see our heroes at too close...
Africa is a continent crucified by famine and war, pestilence and poverty. For Christianity, however, it is a continent of resurrection. Even as older churches in Europe and the U.S. are emptying, faith is thriving in the sprawling lands south of the Sahara. As is so often the case, spiritual strength is inspiring -- and being inspired by -- an outpouring of artistic creation. "We are on the verge of a golden age in African Christian art," proclaims Jesuit Father Engelbert Mveng of Cameroon. "The movement cannot be stopped, and it is bursting out in flower all over Africa...
This is why God made image consultants. (Did you think he was going to give us the image and just let it go at that? O ye of little faith...
...paint and canvas, native artists across the continent are giving their own cultural expression to the themes that have inspired some of the greatest works of the Western tradition: the Nativity, the Madonna, the Crucifixion and the tales of the Bible. The results are vigorous, often passionate, testaments of faith...
Konovalchik learned to have faith in his ability to take his opponent down and cling to a lead for a win. He realized he could wrestle aggressively without giving up points, and could usually come back from behind with a take-down or an escape...