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...little of Ethan Tucker's recent article, "Student Journal Ceases of Shock," (March 7, 1994) suggests that Peninsula has gone the way of Laodicea...
...tentatively opened the door to the "party. "In the literature of our synod with respect to the question of the dance," said the committee in a resolution before the conference, "we found quotations of theologians and conferences as far back as Chrysostom and the Council of Laodicea [ probably 4th century] with constant and consistent warnings against the dangers [of dancing]." But through the years there has also been a minority report. The committee conclusion: If, after consideration, a Lutheran group finds social dancing "in accord with its objectives and to the best Christian interests of its members ... it may permit...
...vesper service yesterday afternoon, Rev. Phillips Brooks preached, taking as his text the fourteenth to the twenty-second verses of the third chapter of Revelations, in which the angel of Laodicea is rebuked for being neither hot nor cold. He showed how this passage is a warning to all that are at ease, and say "I need nothing." We must always seek something greater and fuller, always stive for nobler things, and finally, when we have come to deserve God, He will come to us. We should find some task which human powers have failed to do, and which...
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