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Critics have similar doubts about charcoal Guidon believes came from ancient fireplaces. "Radiocarbon dating is tried and true," explains archaeologist David Meltzer of Southern Methodist University. "The problem is linking the dating of objects to human occupation. How do you know it was a piece of charcoal touched by human hands and not just a piece of burned tree?" Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara is a bit more blunt: "I think Pedra Furada is absolute horse manure...
Yells of joy -- and relief -- rang through the basement of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in south Los Angeles, which had become a kind of command post for efforts to head off a repeat of last year's bloody riots. Dozens of volunteers, gathered at the church to pray before walking neighborhood streets to try to keep order, joined hands nervously as the verdicts approached. At the word "guilty," all leaped to their feet, literally jumping for joy. Some hugged and kissed, others exchanged jubilant high-fives. Outside the courthouse, Rose Brown, a self-described community activist, cried, "Finally...
There was a time in America when a spiritual journey meant a long, stormy crossing of the soul, an exploration mapped by Scripture and led by clergy through the family church. Catholic you were born and Catholic you died, or Methodist, or Jew. Of the generation born after World War II, 95% received a religious upbringing, and had they behaved like their parents before them, the churches and synagogues of their childhood would be thriving...
...group sponsored by a Baptist church where they eventually married. But in January 1990, not long after the birth of their second child, the Sledges decided, after much "heart-wrenching soul searching," that it was time to move on. After long research, the couple landed at Custer Road United Methodist Church in Plano, Texas, which has grown 50% since 1990. "Unlike some of our generation, we could not imagine abandoning church altogether. We just needed something that spoke to us in a different way," says Vicki. The church has adult and youth choirs, classes in everything from Bible study...
Ministers are often the first to see the dangers of supply-side spirituality. "Patterning the church after a mega-supermarket can only lead us to failure," warns Methodist D. Stephen Long of Duke University's Divinity School. "I'm not opposed to the churches using some marketing techniques, but I fear what is happening is that marketing techniques are beginning to use the church. We can't target groups we want for the church simply by locating points of desire. Somewhere there's got to be some judgment about whether these desires are appropriate." He rejects the notion that...