Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonderful thing happens when you encounter images of your cultural self in a book at an early age. That happened to me at 14 when an Episcopal priest gave me James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. I felt like Baldwin was naming me in a way that I didn't even know I needed to be named. It changed my life. That's where I first got the inkling that I might want to be a scholar, to serve my people through print. How could anybody deny -- left, right or center -- the importance of that experience in shaping...
...greatest fiction spanned the years 1938 to '51: Brighton Rock (1938), The Heart of the Matter (1948), The End of the Affair (1951) and, most hauntingly, The Power and the Glory (1940). The pilgrimage of the nameless "whiskey priest," on the run in a Mexican state from a sectarian tyranny, remains a thrilling adventure of despair and irrational redemption...
...surprise arrest stemmed from a takeover attempt led by former Duvalierist strongman Dr. Roger Lafontant after the populist Roman Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide won the presidency in the Dec. 16 vote. Pascal- Trouillot has said that she was kidnapped from her home and held hostage for 10 hours before loyalist troops stormed the National Palace and ended the siege. But Lafontant contends he is not guilty of trying to oust the government, because Trouillot willingly handed power over to him. Many Haitians believe that Trouillot and other members of her government stole millions from the national treasury during...
...during those younger years, when he was required by law to attend school and learn math, history, and English, Fauth's life involved a lot of juggling; at the end of each school day he returned home to his father, a priest, and a household in which the number one priority was God. His home life mainly involved worship and working on his family's alfalfa farm...
After the eighth grade, Fauth worked as a day laborer on the farms in the area, he says. At age 17, he moved, along with his parents, to Jerusalem, where his dad became the pastor of a church at which Fauth's grandfather had been the priest...