Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most uncomfortable around open homosexuals worry that such impulses are part of their own nature. Moreover, many young men think that having another man show sexual interest implies something unwelcome about their own sexuality; often they feel obliged to answer with violence rather than polite refusal. Sexuality also has profound religious implications. Expressing it outside heterosexual marriage is, for millions of Americans, a flat-out sin; many believers feel they should carry those values into the workplace, especially a workplace that is itself a life-style, like the military...
...when George entered the killing field of presidential politics, he gave it a good amateur's try, but he never went the full distance. And when the returns came in on that soft November night and told him he had lost, he emerged from his profound disappointment and made a special effort to honor his conquerors...
...only men can serve as representatives of Jesus Christ at the altar. In its 1976 Declaration against women priests, the Vatican said that although the incarnation "took place according to the male sex," this does not imply superiority of gender. The document added, however, that there is a "profound fittingness" in having priests with "natural resemblance" to the male Jesus Christ, since they represent him in the Mass. "If you were staging a Nativity play, would you have Cary Grant or Nick Nolte play Mary?" asks Ronda Chervin of St. John's Seminary in California, one of two women advisers...
...Christ, the Son of God and Son of man, is incontestably male, what about addressing God as the Father? The debate over inclusive language touches Protestants and Catholics alike. An inclusive-language Mass will soon be proposed for Catholics in all English-speaking countries. Churchgoers of many traditions find profound comfort in singing hymns and reciting prayers that are shared across generations. Many are not prepared to sacrifice majesty in the name of fairness, to replace the resounding "Our Father . . ." that opens the Lord's Prayer with this rendition from the United Church of Christ press: "God, our Father...
...Malcolm X should not be limited to a contrast between the philosophies of Dr. King and Malcolm X, peace and violence or integration and separatism. Although these are important themes to be examined, these are only surface issues. They are the most readily evident, but not the most profound...