Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lemuel Sears is "old enough to remember when the horizons of his country were dominated by the beautiful and lachrymose wineglass elm tree and when most of the bathtubs one stepped into had lions' claws." From his comfortable apartment on Manhattan's East Side, he regards contemporary life...
While more women than ever are seeking ordination as Protestant ministers, problems still exist for women in the curriculum and in religion at large. Although some men who graduate from the Div School study at Catholic seminaries and later become ordained as priests, this option is not open to women...
Though husbands and wives living far apart seem to be a recipe for extramarital sex, researchers insist that commuters do not have any more affairs than stay-at-home couples. The reason seems to be that so much concentration is poured into work and marriage that little time, or energy...
Adam S. Cohen's review of The Pope's Divisions: The Roman Catholic Church Today by Peter Nichols was so blatantly anti-Catholic that I have no choice but to respond. Mr. Cohen reveals his bias immediately when he says, "the book's dust jacket...features two Catholic clergymen praising...
Ruskin was the precocious child of doting parents, as Historian Joan Abse relates in this vigorous, compassionate biography, and his life through middle age was a struggle to free himself from their loving tyranny. "My mother had never let me play cricket lest it should quicken my pulse, step into...