Word: godly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mouth. "It's going to be all right," a voice said. "Put it down." Something about the voice must have calmed the boy. He took the gun from his mouth. The voice belonged to assistant principal Cecil Brinkley, into whose arms T.J. then collapsed, shaking. "Oh, my God, I'm so scared," T.J. said...
...evening allows me my first glimpse of Gordon and gives me my first hard evidence that racing fans don't come within 500 miles of normal. These may even be the same people who think Elvis is alive. "Oh, my God!" a woman quivers when she spots Gordon in a shower of camera flashes. (Women tend to like him more than men, many of whose development seems to have stalled in the towel-snapping phase. Gordon isn't manly enough to be their spiritual leader.) "He's so handsome...
...schools. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1990 upheld a law effectively allowing prayer clubs to meet on public school property, if they did so outside of class hours and without adult supervision. Since then, thousands of Bible and prayer clubs have whooshed into what their members saw as a God-shaped vacuum. The new groups are not refuges for dweebs. Unlike their evangelical parents, who often defined themselves as outsiders, today's campus Christians, says Barnard College religion professor Randall Balmer, "are willing to engage the culture on its terms. They understand what's going on and speak the language...
...favorite series of books in the "Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis. In them, Lewis creates a parallel fantasy world with struggles similar to ours, liberally sprinkled with characters derived from mythology and religion, all created and cared for by a child's image of God: Aslan, the great lion. Those very books have been my companions from the first day a quite proper English lady (there's nothing else to call her but that!) read them to my fourth-grade class until now as I am preparing to leave the sanctuaries of college life and childhood behind for good...
Lewis said repeatedly that his stories were not meant to be pure allegory but instead were designed to allow children (and adults) to think about fundamental truths--about God--by making up stories about what might happen were God to come to another world: here, Narnia. George Lucas said recently, in an interview with Bill Moyers, that he hopes the mythology of his movies will make children think about this greater existence, about the possibility that there is more to life than our little world. And it does...