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...Edington, 22, the adopted son of a Presbyterian minister named Howard Edington, was driving home through an Orlando, Fla., downpour when he lost control of his car and ran into a tree. He died instantly. The tragedy was mourned deeply in lofty reaches of the evangelical world because the Rev. Edington is an extremely respected minister and at the time was the personal pastor to Bill Bright, founder of the megaministry Campus Crusade for Christ...
...Family Father, the Worker, or the patron of the entire church. It is a varied cavalcade, and it can be hard to imagine all those Josephs meshing into a single personality; but then, a certain capaciousness is practically a job requirement for a biblical figure. Notes the Rev. Joseph Chorpenning, editorial director of St. Joseph's University Press in Philadelphia and director of the university's annual St. Joseph's Day Lecture: "To the extent that the Gospels are spare on Joseph's details and he seems to disappear from the scene somewhat unceremoniously, I think this prompted a kind...
...this was not exactly the exciting makings of mass devotion, and for a long time, says the Rev. Joseph Lienhard, an expert in the early church at New York City's Fordham University, "Joseph was not a popular saint." That's an understatement. His name did not pop up on any Western saints lists until 1000. The Koran, which dates from the 600s, dedicates a chapter to Mary but omits Joseph. According to Sandra Miesel, a Catholic journalist with a specialty in medieval history, a list of 30,000 Florentine men of the officeholding class before 1530 contained precisely...
Paine Hall. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $6 student/senior, $10 general. Imagine what it would have been like if, as a child, Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and The Memorial Church’s Pusey Minister, had read to you before bed in his booming, mesmerizing oratory style. This possibility can be experienced on Saturday, Dec. 10, as Gomes narrates the Bach Society Orchestra’s (BachSoc) performance of Prokofiev’s classic composition “Peter and the Wolf.” In addition, BachSoc...
...tree.” This move has sparked controversy over the role of religion in municipal holiday celebrations. In addition to local outcry from Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, who has said he doesn’t support the change enacted by the Department of Parks and Recreation, the televangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell has ridiculed the city and threatened a lawsuit over the incident. “There’s been a concerted effort to steal Christmas,” Falwell told FOX Television last week. Meanwhile, some members of the Christian community at Harvard criticized the notion...