Word: protestantism
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Darnum's small congregations don't bother lay preacher John Watson, 73, who addresses tinier ones in neighboring towns and isn't one to agonize about making his sermons electrifying. "I'm what I'd call an expository preacher," says Watson, who came to Australia 54 years ago from Northern...
I FEEL AS IF IN THE PAST 10 OR 15 YEARS YOU'VE BEEN IN A RESTLESS, EXPLORING MOOD, PUSHING YOURSELF BEYOND THE REALM OF THE TRADITIONALLY UPDIKEAN BOOK. YOU'VE WRITTEN MAGIC REALISM AND SCIENCE FICTION AND NOW A THRILLER. Part of my setting up shop was the idea...
Even the president’s conservative Protestant religiosity finds its way into the novel—Barker freely quotes Scripture, complete with chapter and verse citations—and, indeed, an emphatic and annoying self-righteousness underlies Thomas’ political posturing.
Imagine if Jesus were alive today. How might he react to the plight of an impoverished Mexican worker living just miles from America whose wife and two children are beginning to display signs of malnourishment because the worker’s wages are so paltry? If only the worker could...
But the killing may have been about much more than settling old scores. Donaldson was killed two days before the Prime Ministers of Britain and Ireland, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, were due to launch a joint plan for reviving the faltering political process in Northern Ireland. Thanks to continuing...