Word: repentant
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...there someone you wouldn't want to bring home?" Larson said. "Is there someone you wouldn't want to marry? Is there someone you wouldn't want in your neighborhood? If there is, you repent...
...million black men, who will gather to listen for five hours to such speakers as Jesse Jackson and Rosa Parks, and to engage in an exercise in equal parts humility and pride. Farrakhan calls the gathering (there will be no actual march) a day of atonement. Participants are to repent for their mistreatment of one another and of black women, for their abandonment of positive family values and their failure to put God first. But the Nation of Islam leader also envisions a day of muscle flexing. He and his co-organizer, ex-N.A.A.C.P. head the Rev. Benjamin Chavis...
...lavish ceremony last week to welcome ex-heavyweight champion Mike Tyson home from prison, despite howls of outrage from black feminists who charged that the much hyped ceremony was tantamount to enshrining brutality toward women. If blacks harbor such forbearance for a convicted rapist who has yet to repent his crime, it stands to reason that they will forgive fellow Christians who confess their sins, even if that admission seems too little and too late...
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS REPENT...
Keeping incidents quiet provides an offender with a second chance, an opportunity to repent and mend his ways without attracting the scorn of the rest of the student body. Finally, the unavailability of "dirt" on other students ensures that political campaigns and heated debates do not sink beyond a certain level of decency. What do you think the U.C. presidential election would look like if, say, Randall A. Fine '96 had access to potentially embarrassing information about his opponents' pasts...