Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Criticizing the inward orientation of the group, Minister A.G. Miller of the House of the Lord Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn, who spoke at Harvard Epworth Chapel at the society's first forum, warns the Black Christian intellectual not to get caught up in personal betterment alone. "Personal growth through the sort of activities the society sponsors precedes one's being able to help someone else. I don't, however, take the perspective that study is something that is done only for personal growth. This kind of dialogue would be totally meaningless if it isn't expressed in some kind...
Clearly the idea of revolution does not dominate the discussions of the Seymour Society members. Instead, it continues, in its first year, to focus on the inward processes of Christianity. People may try to handle problems solely on the basis of a mental and emotional self-examination, but Bowen says, "it always seems to come back down to personal transformation, accepting Christ as one's personal Savior. Unless there is a mechanism for doing that which the Bible clearly offers, unless there is an underlying principle to which you can be committed, you're getting nowhere...
...same breadth and intensity as the reaction to the killing of a world figure: some bold and popular politician, like John or Robert Kennedy, or a spiritual leader, like Martin Luther King Jr. But Lennon was a creature of poetic political metaphor, and his spiritual consciousness was directed inward, as a way of nurturing and widening his creative force. That was what made the impact, and the difference-the shock of his imagination, the penetrating and pervasive traces of his genius-and it was the loss of all that, in so abrupt and awful a way, that was mourned last...
Mule, clearly the more skilled of the two, fought off a case of shin splints earlier in the week, only to have them return to haunt him while going into the press for the inward one and a half. Not wanting a balk scored against him, Mule continued the dive and lost points trying to regain form in midair...
That remarkable journey inward now has a fitting companion. Kingston's new book is a voyage out, an attempt to understand others by inhabiting them. The others are men, China Men, heirs to an ancient tradition of oppressing women. A scene early in the book sets Kingston off on her imaginative quest. As a young girl, the author watches her father at work in his laundry in Stockton, Calif. Trained as a scholar in China, he is subject to black moods and bitterness over his low estate. His angriest curses vilify women's bodies. The girl both understands...