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Although Protestant sisterhoods are now a permanent part of the church, only a handful of orders and mother houses require candidates to take permanent vows. The Kaiserswerth deaconesses, for exam ple, are asked only to serve a minimum of three years, and many sisters do leave to marry or take jobs as laywomen. But thousands of others are permanently enthralled by the call of community, and spend their lives in Christian service...
...Sample lines: "God . . . God . . . Hey God! Can you hear me? 0 God, sometimes talking to you is like talking to a brick wall . . . Hey, Fa ther, look at the world - will you look at it, Father?" Churches are constantly experimenting with new ways to bring prayer to the peo ple. On their own initiative, dedicated Christian laymen are experimenting with new forms of corporate worship. In some business firms, the prework prayer service is now almost as customary as the coffee break. Oklahoma City has at least 100 separate groups of Protestant businessmen and factory hands who gather during...
Professor Scott Elledge ruthlessly ripped apart the teachers' compositions-the first creative writing for some of them since adolescence. "Full of hazy thought," he snapped. "This kind of rhetoric we don't need-it's unliterary." The teachers, who tend to see correcting essays as sim ple proofreading rather than criticism of meaning, giggled nervously, or sat in stunned embarrassment...
Change is not limited to the cities. In the hungriest part of Spain, the forsaken valley of Las Hurdes. a few thousand peo ple for generations had no contact with the outside; their inbreeding was said to produce malformed children, and to all Spaniards, Las Hurdes became a synonym for decadence. In the region today, riggers are laying a power line across the valley, a hospital is being built, fruit trees grow in the irrigated fields near a power...
...strict parents. If you disobeyed, "you got yourself whipped-with love, but you were torn up just the same." The color bar was as strong in Laurel as anywhere in the South, but the children were not aware of it at the time: "We were taught to judge peo ple as individuals, not on the pigment of their skin," says George. Today some Southerners use the Price success story to bolster their arguments. Says Laurel's Leader-Call Editor J. W. West: "This gal is a good example to other nigras. She wasn't hurt by attending...