Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor homosexuals ... will inherit the Kingdom of God," wrote St. Paul. That attitude has survived the centuries. Christians have been grudging in their acceptance of homosexuals in their congregations, if indeed they acknowledge them at all. This tepid welcome has not deterred gay activists from...
Your story on Harold Lindsell's book The Battle for the Bible [May 10] implies that unity is of greater importance than truth. Yet Evangelicals at the recent World Council of Churches Assembly in Nairobi did not hesitate to challenge this thesis. Nor did those earlier Evangelicals, the Protestant...
The furor stirred up by the most visible reform inspired by Vatican II - the modernizing of the rites of worship, most notably the Mass - seems to have largely died down. In the years following the council, the language of the liturgy became English, not Latin; baroque high altars gave way...
Communion with Protestants is becoming more common, although the Vatican allows it only under special circumstances, and bishops frown on casual intercommunion. At St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Ames, some of the town's many Protestants show up occasionally at Communion and are not turned away ("So many of...
Potato Latke. But Brando does think. When he arrived in Montana for The Missouri Breaks, he had definite ideas for changing his character which he says "was as heavy as potato latke." (Brando's speech is loaded with Yiddishisms, from his days in New York with Stella Adler, the...