Word: repentance
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...mathematics prize was awarded to the Southern Baptist Church of Alabama for its county by county estimate of how many Alabamian citizens will go to hell if they don't repent. And the physics prize was given to the Japanese Meterological Agency, for its seven-year study on whether earthquake are caused by catfish moving their tails...
...Solzhenitsyn's message to Russians can be summed up in one word: Repent! He believes deeply that Russia cannot move into the future until it has exorcised its communist past. "In this country, there are murderers and victims, the persecutors and the persecuted," he says. "The murderers and the persecutors must personally repent for what they have done." But when a handful of Russians told him they regretted not speaking up for him and asked for his forgiveness, Solzhenitsyn said he "responded with a laugh that this was the smallest possible reason for them to come up with for repentance...
...others point to women who have formed separatist "Women-Church" worship, a New Age blend of feminist, ecological, neopagan and Christian elements. One book offers liturgies to celebrate the coming-out of lesbians, teenagers' first menstrual period and cycles of the moon. In an Ash Wednesday rite, women repent not of their own sins but of the sins the church commits | against women. Last month, 30 members of Chicago Catholic Women gathered to chant, "I am a woman giving birth to myself; bless what I bring forth," and then shared eucharistic bread and wine -- without once uttering the name...
...emphasize the error of his ways, Bush felt compelled to apologize for the tax increase at the 1992 Republican National Convention, telling the party faithful he had made a mistake and would repent with a tax cut if he were re-elected...
...call certain things art, and how the mainstream of popular culture looks at and effects artistic progress. He raises similar questions about popular attitudes toward money (large $-signs on blank canvases), sensationalism (silk screen paintings of car crashes and electric chairs) and fundamentalist Christianity (a painting that says simply "Repent and Sin No More...