Word: jesus
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...prison, where he was sent for his role in the Watergate scandal, triggered a religious conversion in former White House aide Charles Colson. "Born again," Colson transformed his zeal for Republican politics (he once said he would walk over his own grandmother for Nixon) into a devotion to Jesus. He founded the Prison Fellowship, an organization designed to change the lives of convicts through a combination of practical assistance and relentless evangelism. Colson's two decades of commitment have worn down most of the skeptics who questioned the sincerity of his conversion, and last week he was awarded the most...
PERFORMER: JESUS JONES...
When he sings "This time the revolution will be computerized," on the song Zeroes and Ones, Mike Edwards is not kidding. Jesus Jones -- the British quintet that Edwards fronts -- has chucked the rock guitars, horns, pop-dance beats and radio-friendly hooks that two years ago helped it sell 2 million copies of its album Doubt. Instead the group has plugged its keyboards, synthesizers and drum machines into digital samplers and computers...
...associates this form with birth, spiritual regeneration and her own recycling of past artistic traditions. In "Notre Dame," one of the few paintings on display, a red form emanates from a larger, gray shape. Lichacz says she hoped the image would suggest the birth of Jesus--the blood of Christ originating from the Virgin...
...unusual found objects and shards of ancient pottery. "Our Lady of the Seas" incorporates shells that the artist's daughter collected for her on a Panama beach. "Thirty Pieces of Silver," as the title suggests, highlights coins surrounding a cross, representing the sum of money for which Judas betrayed Jesus...