Word: gracefulness
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...Pentecostals tend to be forgiving of their preachers' lapses - both Bakker and Swaggart are back in the ministry, for example - because of a theological distinction between Pentecostalism and more austere forms of conservative Christianity. Says the University of Rochester's Butler: "Calvinism is [God's] grace, one time. This is grace after grace after grace. You can mess up a thousand times...
...even sided with the rowdy Sandinista rebels, hoping that the overthrow of the dictatorship would allow them to reclaim lost power. But the Sandinistas had other ideas: After seizing power in the insurrection of 1979, they systematically dismantled the power of the oligarchy in subsequent years. The coup de grace, Nunez says, came last year when the Sandinistas formed a political alliance with the Catholic Church, the oligarchy's last institutional bastion...
...points over the two-day contest, was just one point better than fifth-place British USA, and two points in front of Penn in sixth. Harvard, which ended its first day of the regatta in eighth place, used a key performance from freshman skipper Teddy Himler and freshman crew Grace Charles in B-division to boost the Crimson in the overall rankings. “[They] had a really fantastic Sunday afternoon,” senior captain Kyle Kovacs said. “They’re the main reason we rallied to end up fourth.” Kovacs...
...This weather is what climatologists predicted, and it is happening even faster than expected," says Grace Akumu, executive director of the Kenya-based Climate Change Network. "We are overwhelmed." The immediate consequences of climate change in Africa? Countries will experience either torrential floods or severe drought during a season. Akumu says that the unpredictable climate will threaten the food supply in Africa and potentially eliminate key crops. Africans are expected to face a severe lack of food and drinkable water by the end of the century...
Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace...