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...year-old Spanish priest named Josemaría Escrivá was visited by a new vision of Catholic spirituality: a movement of pious laypeople who would, by prayerful contemplation and the dedication of their labor to Christ, extend the holiness of church on Sunday into their everyday work life. Escrivá's title for the movement was a literal description--Opus Dei means "the work of God"--and his ambition was correspondingly large. He saw Opus eventually acting as "an intravenous injection [of holiness] in the bloodstream of society...
...Sync, dumplings, and God: just three highlights of a Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF) event Friday in Ticknor Lounge. The pious party, dubbed “I’m So Sick of Love Songs: A Christian Perspective on Loneliness,†featured dinner, heartfelt testimonials, and copious Backstreet Boys references, suggesting that knowing all the lyrics to “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely†really does bring you closer to God. AACF kicked off the program’s “preaching to the choir†section with...
...Museum of Fine Arts. He dutifully practiced the organ, but at that point, he definitely wasn’t gunning for the pulpit.“My friends would’ve called me a smart-ass,†he says. “I was not particularly pious.â€It was his attitude that encouraged one of his professors at Bates to push him to do more. “He said to me, ‘You should go where people are smarter than you are,’†Gomes recalls...
...trying to be the breadwinner of a '50s-style household (that would be the 1850s) in the 21st century. And the polygamist compound where Bill grew up keeps pulling him back, Corleone fashion, from the 'burbs, driving the plot in dark, gripping directions. Stanton is perfectly cast as the pious, menacing Roman, who insists on the cut from the second store, although, legally, Roman is an investor in only the first. "There's man's law, and there's God's law," he warns, before the Hummers of his henchmen start staking out Bill's house...
Sunnis and Shi'ites may find themselves joining militias or supporting denomination-based political parties even if they are not particularly pious and would much prefer not to. Something similar happened in the former Yugoslavia when its government collapsed with the fall of communism and nothing replaced it. Ethnic activists--call them identity entrepreneurs--will always form the core of the new militia. These radicals will emphasize symbols, like al-Askari mosque that was blown up last week in Iraq, and hope that followers will react by strengthening their commitments to the group itself...