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...MESSIAEN: THREE LITTLE LITURGIES OF THE DIVINE PRESENCE (Columbia). Scored for soprano chorus, strings, and a miscellany of soundmakers including a vibraphone, Chinese cymbals, gongs and the electronic instrument called Ondes Martenot, this 20-year-old work is a reminder of Messiaen's Orient-tilted talents. Like a preacher shaking his fist, the French composer uses wild, sliding sounds, surprise rhythms, and his own effusive text to insist that God is omnipresent. Leonard...
...Senator Goldwater is a direct lineal descendant of the great Puritan preacher Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island. There are remarkable parallels in the careers of the two men. though three centuries separate them. Individual freedom is the primary concern of both their lives. Williams wrote The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience (1644), and Goldwater wrote The Conscience of a Conservative (1960). Williams led the fight against religious regimentation in his day, just as Goldwater leads the struggle against government regimentation in our times. Both were special friends to the American Indians...
...permitted in other states and is religiously more crucial than polygamy, without which modern Mormons are thriving. Since Peyotism "presents only slight danger to the state," the court voided the Navajos' convictions. Balancing its dictum, the court simultaneously rejected the appeal of a white, "selfstyled 'peyote preacher'" who made the same claim as the Indians. He must stand trial again, ordered the court, because he "has not proved that his asserted belief was an honest and bona fide one." How far a court should go in exploring the good faith of religious belief may itself raise further...
...years after his ordination, he took a private vow of chastity-which he kept for only a year and a day. But in the casual atmosphere of the Swiss Church, Zwingli's sin was no bar to advancement, and in 1519 the canons of Zurich Minster appointed him preacher of the cathedral; his chief rival for the post was a German priest who admitted to fathering six children...
...eight favor it; two years ago, a big majority of the same papers attacked the Supreme Court's ruling on the New York State Board of Regents' prayer. Meanwhile, the church leaders who oppose the court decisions are fewer, although they still include Billy Graham, Fundamentalist Radio Preacher Carl Mclntire, James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre of Los Angeles*and New York's Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen...