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...celestial bean counter." If God becomes just another parent to rebel against, says Morris, then the 13-year-old's spiritual journey may end before it even begins. Morris' search for a more inclusive Christian curriculum for adolescents led him eight years ago to become a trainer for Rite 13, a program modeled on bar and bat mitzvahs as well as Native American vision quests and African rites of passage. The program began in the early 1990s at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Durham, N.C. Parishioners there were worried that their confirmation ceremonies were functioning more as exit interviews...
...everyone from George W. Bush to Mario Cuomo (not to mention Fidel Castro), it is easy to forget how partisan his memory once was. In the late 19th century, a kind of cult of Lincoln grew up among the party faithful, with banquets on his birthday as a rite, while Southerners licked their wounds and Democrats rebuilt an organization that had been split...
...midnight box offices. But R.H.P.S. is more than a sleeper hit for insomniacs. It is a cross-generational phenomenon, an evocation of '50s monster movies wrapped in the anything-goes spirit of the '60s that found a niche in the '70s and has blossomed in the '80s into a rite of passage for millions of American teenagers. As Richard O'Brien, the 43-year-old New Zealand-born Londoner who wrote Rocky's script, music and lyrics, noted on its tenth anniversary, "The movie is really an excuse for dressing up and having a party." A 3-D, three-level...
...extraordinary two-week-long synod now meeting in Rome to review the work of Vatican II, collegiality was clearly on the minds of many of the 161 delegates. Indeed, one of the most radical proposals to emerge last week came from Archbishop Maxim Hermaniuk, spiritual leader of Ukrainian Rite Catholics in Canada. To carry out Vatican II's teaching on collegiality, declared Hermaniuk, there should be a permanent synod, sitting in Rome as an ongoing body, empowered to act "in the name of the entire college of bishops." This group, said Hermaniuk, would acquire "legislative power to decide with...
People now spend more time sitting down than ever before in history. A minor achievement of modern civilization, maybe, but it could explain why producing a chair has been an obligatory rite for ambitious designers of this century. Charles Eames is still famous mainly for his chairs, and the best-known works of today's European café-society designers--Philippe Starck, Enzo Mari--are chairs. Aalto, Breuer and Mies made their marks in the '20s partly by making chairs, and such contemporary architects as Gehry, Meier, Graves, Hollein, Venturi and Ambasz have all felt obliged to design chairs as well...