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...religion that ultimately led Blair to politics. Interested mostly in the social gospel, he was heavily influenced by John Macmurray, a Scottish philosopher who wrote that Christians have a positive obligation to work toward improving society--the communitarian notion he still trumpets regularly. Blair nevertheless rarely speaks about his faith in public, refrains from ending speeches with "God bless you" and never attends high-profile prayer breakfasts with prominent religious figures. When asked by TIME if he is religious, Blair, who normally speaks in well-constructed, seamless paragraphs, became inarticulate: "I am, but I don't...you know...every time...
DIED. LAURA NYRO, 49, intense and lyrical singer-songwriter whose free-form musical emotionalism captured for many the passions of the 1960s and 1970s; of ovarian cancer; in Danbury, Connecticut. Her unique blend of folk, soul, gospel and Broadway influenced many artists, some of whom turned her tunes into hits. A brief playlist: Wedding Bell Blues (Fifth Dimension), And When I Die (Blood, Sweat and Tears) and Stoney End (Barbra Streisand...
...Mead) are entrusted to care for over a long winter, and 'Stephen King?s The Shining' is no different from the standard movie-of-the-week that reminds us?in a third of the time?just how destructive substance abuse can be to an otherwise decent family." BOOKS . . . THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON: You needn?t be a Christian to find Norman Mailer's new novel (Random House; 242 pages; $22) purporting to be a first-person memoir written by Jesus a dubious and ultimately failed enterprise. Conceivably, imaginative literature at its highest pitch could do what tons...
Perhaps Finer did not object to the "preaching" religious nature of the event, but instead found questionable that the Living Stones "covertly" sprung the message of the Christian Gospel on "a potentially unsuspecting audience." This implicitly singles out Christianity in the free marketplace of ideas as an idea that should given a warning label exante...
...talk publicity had neglected to mention that a free message accompanied the free speech: the message of the Christian gospel. I distinctly heard "Jesus" being said aloud, even though no hint of this was given on the posters ahead of time. I have no objection to the presence of religion on this predominantly secular campus. What made this event different from other religious gatherings on campus was that a significant portion of the audience was unaware of the religious nature of the event. I and several others went to hear a "free talk," not to be preached...