Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole milk. No butter. No fatty meats. Fewer eggs. That has been the gospel of the healthy heart for nearly a quarter-century, and millions have heeded its teachings. Yet each time a believer resolutely pushed away his plate, there was the niggling doubt, or at least the hope, that perhaps the skeptics were right: there was only circumstantial evidence that abstaining from cholesterol-rich food actually protected the heart. No longer. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute last week released the findings of a $150 million study tracking the incidence of heart disease in 3,806 men over...
...while forgiveness introduces a transcendent element: love. Weighing the injunction in the Sermon on the Mount to turn the other cheek, Martin Luther concluded that an individual ought to obey the command, but a government should not. There are two orders, that of the law and that of the Gospel. One forgives in one's heart, in the sight of God, as the Pope did, but the criminal still serves his time in Caesar's jail. And yet if one assumes that the claims of God and Caesar are parallel lines, and do not connect with each other...
Across the East River from the Great White Way, some 60 gospel shouters are shaking the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the soaring sounds of religious fervor. The Gospel at Colonus is an unlikely enterprise: the story of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus as it might be enacted by a black evangelical congregation on a splendid Sunday morning. Sophocles' theme was man's acceptance of the inevitability of death; Adapter-Director Lee Breuer's is the black man's and woman's reconciliation to a hard life in these United States. If Breuer...
...American bishops do not deny the traditional Catholic teaching that the state has a right to execute criminals, but they oppose the exercise of that right. Some individual bishops have gone further. Florida's seven bishops declared this year that capital punishment is "not compatible with the Gospel." They enlisted John Paul to join in an extraordinary appeal for clemency in the case of Robert Sullivan, whom they believed to be innocent of murder. Despite the Pope's plea to Governor Bob Graham, Sullivan was executed on Nov. 30. The staff of the U.S. Catholic Conference in Washington...
Over the past ten years, the treatment of insulin-dependent, or Type I,* diabetes has undergone a quiet revolution. D.S.C.P. is one of several programs that have sprung up around the country to spread the gospel of this movement. Its watchword is tight control, or keeping a close rein on the disease so that the body can function as normally as possible at all times. In practice, this means a lot of hard work...