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...spirit-based. God, faith and salvation are ideas that regularly hover around Kennedy's fictions. But in Paradise, He's suddenly everywhere: in the form of a swan; shining erotically in her lover's skin; serving coffee in Hannah's nightmares. And even though Kennedy was raised a Methodist and is now a Quaker, there's no evangelism here. God is in Paradise to do literature's work: to throw light on why we do what we do. "I was interested in the idea of self-martyrdom," Kennedy says. "In what happens when you're in a place very close...
...commitment, theologically or evangelistically, from congregants, whose enthusiasm waned accordingly; denominations that started out aggressively courting members turned to other tasks, such as social activism; and mainline birthrates lag behind the national average. Most mainline leaders claim their plight may hold hidden opportunities. The Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar, a methodist minister and general secretary of the National Council of Churches USA (whose membership historically has had a strong Protestant presence), notes, "the [Hebrew] prophets never had a majority, and yet they had important things to say. Maybe this is a positive wake-up call for us to worry less about...
...makes a certain kind of cosmic sense that a writer of fantastical literature should come from a relatively mundane background. Clarke, the daughter of a Methodist minister, was born in Nottingham, went to Cambridge and then took a series of publishing jobs in London. The first glimmers of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell came to her during a year she spent teaching English in Bilbao, Spain. "I had a kind of waking dream," Clarke remembers, "about a man in 18th century clothes in a place rather like Venice, talking to some English tourists. And I felt strongly that he had some...
DIED. JEFF SMITH, 65, white-bearded United Methodist minister who became public television's popular Frugal Gourmet and wrote a series of accompanying best-selling cookbooks; of heart disease; in Seattle. He was forced off the air in 1997 after seven men filed a lawsuit alleging that he had sexually abused them as youths. He denied the allegations, and was never charged with a crime...
After I became a doctor, one of my more satisfying achievements occurred in the 1960s, when my colleagues and I performed the first successful coronary-artery bypass, at Methodist Hospital in Houston. Some 30 years earlier, as a medical student at Tulane University in New Orleans in 1932, I began work that helped launch the field of cardiovascular surgery. I devised a pump for blood transfusions, which paved the way for open-heart surgery--still two decades away...