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...middle-aged mother of three, on behalf of the National Council of Missionary Societies. Although the Dutch hierarchy had tried to screen out dissidents who might challenge the Pope, Wasser departed from her text, which had been cleared in advance, to ask John Paul, "Are we preaching the liberating gospel in a credible way . . . if we exclude rather than make room for unmarried people living together, divorced people, homosexuals, married priests and women? . . . Developments in the church in recent times have forced many of us, because of our faith in and obedience to Christ, to be critical and disobedient toward...
...Adler's newly published Ten Philosophical Mistakes (Macmillan; $12.95), which takes to task a Who's Who of the major philosophers since Thomas Aquinas. In the process, the book tells the rest of the world not only what to think but also why it should follow the latest gospel according to Mortimer...
...China. It is a subject that is close to home. Hersey was born in Tianjin, the son of Roscoe and Grace Baird Hersey, missionaries serving with the Young Men's Christian Association. Before returning to the U.S. in 1925, when John was eleven, the couple preached a social gospel that emphasized literacy and reform. It was a monumental labor complicated by floods, famines and warlords. Hersey provides the necessary historical overviews, but it is the abundance of detail that reawakens the sorrows of Old China. A short list of levies: "pig-rearing tax, firecracker tax, opium-smoking lamp tax, marrying...
...only does Brandt give us a comprehensive and entertaining history of venereal disease in America but he draws valuable comparisons between the hygiene gospel" and current fears of AIDS and herpes. He says, "Contraction of a venereal disease represented a failure of self-control, a central tenet of progressive ideology." This is the same message being offered by the popular media today. Time magazine calls herpes the new scarlet letter and herpes sufferers "unusually dishonest and unusually promiscuous. Professor Brandt shows that even today, we are still getting the same mixed messages about sexuality be a libertine but take...
...said gravely, "I've got to start guarding my health." In fact his health is under pretty tight security already. Among other medicinal regimens, he doses himself every night with Metamucil, a fiber laxative. He is a confessed fiber zealot. "I've probably saved 500 lives by spreading the gospel," he says. For Lent he has given up smoking his daily two or three Monte Cristo Havanas. At home on weekends, he crews a rowing machine for half-hour stretches. Every weekday at 11:15 a.m., he begins 45 minutes of sweating in the gym he had built...