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Athenians of the 5th century B.C. attended plays by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Londoners in Elizabethan England enjoyed the plays of Shakespeare. Americans in the 21st century watch Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Survivor. Does anyone else find this disturbing and frightening? (THE REV.) FRANK L. HOSS Bourbonnais...
...Charged with manslaughter last week, Junta pleaded not guilty and was released on $5,000 bail. In nearby Lynnfield, 200 mourners paid Costin their respects. At his wake, one of his sons, beset with grief, climbed into the casket. The Rev. John E. Farrell cast blame all around. "We name violence in our society," he said...
...care before welfare reform; by 1999, the number was 21,000. Centers relying on those $85-a-week kids could soon be found on almost every corner of the inner city. For a few local entrepreneurs, it was a windfall. For example, Koinonia Child Care Center, run by the Rev. Roosevelt Joyner, has doubled in size since reform and today receives more than $1.7 million a year in child-care subsidies. Says Joyner: "The reforms put a lot of minority people who would not ordinarily go into business into business...
...last week when she donned the stole and the chasuble of her new office, on the day when her Episcopal bishop installed her as the dean of Cleveland's grand Trinity Cathedral, the Very Rev. Tracey Lind took a moment to think back on Sunday School, which in her case took place in a Reform synagogue. As a child, she had been half-Jewish, half-Christian, and the rabbi, who was teaching about the Holocaust at the time, glanced up shrewdly and asked, "Tracey, you could have passed. Would you have died for your faith or denied...
Slender, California-breezy and prone to corny gay humor, the Rev. Mel White, co-head of the roving protest group Soulforce, seems a bit lightweight at first. But he has a powerful life saga, and was willing to get arrested not just in Cleveland in May and in Orlando, Fla., in June (Baptists), but plans to do likewise in Long Beach in July (Presbyterians) and possibly in Denver a week later (Episcopalians). The only transdenominational figure on the scene, he will establish the nightly-news rat-tat-tat for the entire season of contention. His attitude toward the various denominations...