Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poetry but never thought it would be taken seriously, do it now. If you wanted to play intramural softball but the nerds at your school (I'm assuming you were one) were laughed off the diamond, this is your chance. If you never felt comfortable asserting your ethnicity, your religion (or lack thereof) or your sexuality, this is your time...
STUDENTS GET RELIGION...
...evangelical teens, a group with the ultimate superiority complex. They believe that they are God's chosen and that those who disagree with them are doomed to hell. Evangelism and the feelings of inferiority it breeds in people of different faiths are hardly the way to prevent school carnage. Religion in public schools can only polarize a community that needs, now more than ever, to be held together. RAMAN KHANNA Springfield, Ohio...
...tireless traveler and a relentless evangelizer, taking his ready wit and common touch -- and a telegenic quality unlike any other pope?s -- to nearly every corner of the far-flung but fractured Catholic world. "He?s totally hot-wired the global aspect of the church," says TIME religion writer David Van Biema. "No pope before him has had this kind of wattage...
...think they are Jesus or Moses," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. The problem in the Holy Land, however, is that the beauty, the history and the associations of the region can be awesome. "I have never heard of anyone going to the Holy Land," says TIME senior religion reporter Emily Mitchell, "who was not overwhelmed by the emotions it engendered. That can put a severe strain on some mentally fragile people." While cynics may be prone to smirk over the Jerusalem Syndrome, it?s important to remember one thing, says Gorman: "It is not religious experience that makes...