Word: lincolnisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...several months now, the Lincoln's Inn, a social club for some 135 law students has been disturbing the otherwise peaceful street, neighbors say. They say that monthly parties thrown by the group has created excessive noise, public drunkeness, and that garbage around the inn has become a neighborhood eyesore...
...Lincoln's Inn members say the situation is under control. Since the current wave of complaints began earlier this fall, they say, the club has instituted a "management plan." Club members say they are installing storm windows, changing the entryway to the club and instructing the incoming executive board about neighborhood concerns...
...have made a huge amount of changes," said Kenneth B. Mehlman, chair of the Lincoln's Inn and a third-year law student. "People here want to work with the neighbors. I have no animosity [towards them...
While traditional churches are struggling to maintain their relevance, Lincoln and Mamiya believe that, increasingly, American blacks will look to forms of Pentecostalism for their spiritual needs. By the scholars' projections, Pentecostalism could claim half of black churchgoers sometime in the next century. The movement has three variants. There are the traditional Pentecostal denominations such as the Church of God in Christ. There are also independent Charismatic congregations, and Neo-Pentecostalists within the traditional Methodist and Baptist denominations...
...spiritual hope for American blacks, but perhaps their best social hope as well. "In the next 10 years," he predicts, "you'll see the churches growing through the walls because people have nowhere else to go." Whatever its religious forms, in other words, the black church still has what Lincoln and Mamiya call the "institutionalized staying power of a human community that has been under siege for close to 400 years." If the church flourishes, the community will gain strength...