Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tolstoy tried to resolve the first through a homegrown faith that amounted to a churchless Christianity. He shunned organized religion and city life for rustic self-sufficiency among the muzhiks (peasants) at his estate, Yasnaya Polyana (Bright Glade). He preached against the evils of meat, alcohol, tobacco and fornication. He believed a Christian should make his own shoes and empty his own chamber...
...many believers, the problem with all this is that Scorsese is not tinkering with a minor historical figure, as Gore Vidal did with Aaron Burr, but with the founder of their faith. "This is an intentional attack on Christianity," concludes Joseph Reilly, national director of Morality in Media. The group is particularly incensed by Jesus' anguished comment, "I am a liar, I am a hypocrite. I am afraid of everything . . . Lucifer is inside...
...author's best-known work of fiction is the novel The Light in the Piazza (1960), in which an American mother takes her beautiful retarded daughter to Florence. There the girl is wooed and eventually wed by a local boy. As a bastion of faith, culture and family traditions, that city seems a good place for a helpless young woman, and an evocative locale for a writer...
AUNTS, UNCLES AND COUSINS from faraway places came to celebrate the last bar mitzvah of the generation. Balloons danced in the early summer air. That morning Josh Maisel, then 13, entered Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville, Me., as a child, and he emerged, in the eyes of his faith, a man. Serious duties replaced the weightlessness of his younger years. As a child, Josh had listened to Scripture and learned; as an adult, Josh is allowed to read from the Torah so that he can pass on his family's faith to a new generation...
Larry and Joy Nelson's Fundamentalist Christian faith imposes strict rules on their children. What they watch on television is strictly monitored: no soap operas, no shows with a hint of sex. The children will not be allowed to date until 16, even though many girls in Nancy's seventh grade already wear boys' rings...