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...years ago, Russell J. Schlecht felt a sudden urge to move to Boston and start a church...
...We’re not highly evangelistic,” says Russell J. Schlecht, the pastor of Grace Street Church, a Protestant congregation that rents space in Old Cambridge Baptist Church and has attracted some of the converts interviewed. “We have a lot of faith that God is actually the one pursuing people. We take a great step backward in that. However, when someone is ready to commit to Christ, we’re right there...
Germer began meeting with Schlecht and reading religious texts by authors like C.S. Lewis and Simone Weil. “I was really hungering for a spiritual aspect of my life,” she says. “Because I’d been studying it. And I liked watching it in other people…I just didn’t know if I could get past my belief that the knowledge of God is really beyond human understanding...
When it was over, the audience chattered excitedly. This part of the show was prima; that part schlecht. The whole was like a nightmare to them. The tragedy of Naziism was still too close for laughter-and so was the time when Germans had cheered the Great Dictator. In a poll taken by the Army they voted against further showing of the film in Germany now. Wrote the Tagesspiegel next day: "It seems as if reality had only to be copied and satire was readymade...