Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interest in the place or religions in modern societies led Eck to formulate the Pluralism Project, which, unlike her earlier, is focused on religious life in America. The project is an ongoing research endeavor designed to coordinate and examine various religious communities and centers throughout the United States...
...chafe him, including football, rock music and especially cities: "Flee from the lethargy and waste, the poison and boredom and yawning. Flee from the nightmare city," he writes. People, also, are a problem: "Your breath chases me like a rabid dog, its saliva dripping in the street of your modern city of insanity." Movie rights, apparently, are still available...
...centuries such calculations were confined to a few learned theorists. In the minds of most people, time was vague; the future was tomorrow's sunrise, the next harvest, the coming winter or the inevitability of death. The more distant future belonged to the realm of religion. The modern concept of the future did not begin to develop until the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, with the gradual consolidation of calendars, the spread of clocks and the stirrings of new forces. Both science and commerce needed to anticipate things, whether a chemical reaction or the expiration of contracts...
...Jesus appreciated the need of modern man for solid evidence of the Resurrection. The shroud is that evidence and a basis for our faith." BENJAMIN A. WIECH North Tonawanda...
...good science to continue to ask good questions. There are speculations that the shroud's image may have been created by a "burst" of energy at the time of the Resurrection. Could such a burst have altered the fabric in a way that would affect the outcome of this modern dating method? JONATHAN SMITH Calico Rock...