Word: godly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Jim Bakker, who was defrocked by the Assemblies of God last spring, has been ordained as a minister in the Tulsa-based Faith Christian Fellowship International. Bakker, who lost his ministry after it was learned that he had had sex with a church secretary, did not indicate when he will try to return to the pulpit...
...brother's keeper? God answered Cain's evasive question by putting him under an eternal curse, and so the traditional answer has been a cautious affirmative. But what if my brother already has a keeper, one who has a gun and who claims the right to decide whether my brother will get any of the food I send...
...cult of celebrity that has riddled the art world in the '80s. He shuns publicity, permits virtually no photographs and spends most of his time behind the locked gates of his studio in the unremarkable German town of Buchen. "Live like a bourgeois, think like a god" -- if any painter has taken Gustave Flaubert's famous injunction to heart, it is Kiefer...
...while Harvard has tried to teach me of worldly learning, instead I have come to a much different plane of learning. Not of God, and teachings of the higher being, mind you; my moral reasoning requirement remains, at this writing, forlornly unfulfilled. Nor have I come to understand in my heart the clocklike precision and sweeping grandeur of design that marks the natural world. The cerulean dome that arcs above our mortal heads remains, as ever, a mystery to my soul and mind...
...elaborate, he modestly responds, "We've just been coming together as a team." This coach, if he is to avoid the tag of arrogant braggart, must appeal to higher motives--i.e. "the way things are" or "team spirit"--as the reason for his team's triumph, without drawing God or other divinities into it. (God and company only work wonders for true underdogs...