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...Manlys' house over the weekend before the surgery. Elizabeth's grandmother had been thinking about Jesus' instructions for healing. "Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." After dinner Sunday night, the grandparents asked the priest if he would lead the anointing. He did, leaving the consecrated oil for Betsy to use again and again during the next 48 hours until surgery...
...which opened on Broadway last week--is more complicated in the summarizing than in the performing; the staging clarifies a great deal. The action unfolds in a grand English country house. The scenes alternate between a few hectic days in April 1809 when a number of guests, including--perhaps--Lord Byron, have come for a visit, and the present day when the house is invaded by, among others, a pair of literary historians who turn out to be Byron scholars (Blair Brown, Victor Garber...
Noah's never ending findings courtesy of the Harvard University Archives, FM, and Our Lord...
...first film in the series--centered upon the First Commandment, "I am the Lord thy God, and thou shalt have no other God but me," --is a haunting examination of faith. An atheistic father has a quasi-religious faith in technology, while his bright young son, Pavel, shows a precocious aptitude for computers. Pavel's mother is working abroad, and he is caught between his father's influence and that of his Catholic aunt. Although fascinated with computers, Pavel is still questioning; he hasn't made up his mind about God or the world. Opposing faiths...
...Decalogue I" shows the results of man's trying to replace God with an atheistic faith in computers. In "Decalogue 2"--"Thou shall not take the name of the Lord in vain"--a man tries to step into God's shoes. A woman asks a doctor if her husband is dying. She is pregnant by another man and has never been able to have a child before--this may be her last chance. If her husband lives, she must give up the child. She loves her husband, she loves her lover and she also loves the unborn child (although...