Word: rebel
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...Army is on the defensive, and nowhere more seriously-or ironically-than in its home country of Great Britain. General William Booth, its founder, was a rebel-a onetime pawnbroker's apprentice and Methodist preacher who abandoned the class-conscious churches of his day to preach salvation in the desolate slums of Victorian England. His "church" was a revolutionary religious body-a consciously designed "army" complete with uniforms and "Articles of War," dedicated to feeding and caring for the poor, exposing social injustice and lobbying for reform legislation. Now, a century later, the organization itself is under fire...
...blast on the horn of resurrection: chief of the order of virtues, chief of archangels, prince of the presence, angel of repentance, righteousness, mercy, sanctification . . . and, by decree of Pope Pius XII in 1950, the patron angel of policemen. In painting, his main roles were two: driving the rebel angels down to Hell (Michael replaced the fallen Lucifer as chief angel of Heaven) and weighing the souls of the dead, as in Memling's Last Judgment, for virtue and sin. The main reason for Gabriel and Michael's dominion in religious art may be that between them they...
...local population. Nowhere except in Communist China does the church face official persecution, and in some places it receives unexpected encouragement. Though progress is slow in Moslem Indonesia (about 2,000,000 Catholics out of a population of 120 million), missionary kindnesses to the late President Sukarno in his rebel days have long since paid off in a public policy that goes well beyond toleration: Catholic clerics may even teach religion, in any of the schools, on government salaries...
Theologian, reluctant rebel, martyr of the German Confessing Church in its struggle against Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer has become something of a religious folk hero in recent years, credited variously with being both a religious Che Guevara and a founder of secular theology. Eberhard Bethge, Bonhoeffer's student, coconspirator, and literary executor, expands what is already known about Bonhoeffer, but also adds important new material...
Down the Sidelines. In Mississippi, the entire state is in the throes of "Archie fever." The town council of Drew (pop. 2,143) has erected highway signs proudly proclaiming: HOME OF ARCHIE MANNING OF THE OLE MISS REBELS. To accommodate national TV coverage for Archie, the state legislature spent $150,000 to improve the lighting in the Memorial Stadium in Jackson, while at the University of Mississippi's Hemingway Stadium they only half-jokingly call the new artificial turf the "Archie Manning Memorial Carpet." Beyond that, there are buttons (ARCHIE FOR HEISMAN TROPHY), bumper stickers (ARCHIE'S ARMY...