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...American reformist Christian sect, the Mormon Church bases much of its teaching on an additional gospel called the Book of Mormon. Converting others to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is an important part of the religion...
...coming judgment of God. This Jesus, unlike the more secular versions, had a keen sense of his mission and knew that his death would fulfill it. He was clearly influenced by John the Baptist's preaching of repentance and perhaps by the apocalyptic warnings of the Essenes, the Jewish sect that produced the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...lacked "good faith." He then announced that he would consecrate four of his disciples as bishops on June 30. Since Roman Catholic canon law requires papal authorization to create new bishops, the step would automatically excommunicate Lefebvre and his newly minted prelates. By making possible the perpetuation of a sect with its own hierarchy, the consecration of illicit bishops would produce the first schism since the 1870s, when the Old Catholics rebelled against the First Vatican Council's proclamation of papal infallibility...
Anthropologist Stan Binstead is en route from New England to the African bush to search for a lion-worshiping cult. In London a friend dismisses the sect as "just an old-fashioned protection racket." Stan insists it could be the start of a new religion. Ordinarily, the safari would also enable Stan to indulge his favorite pastime, philandering, but his drab wife Millie insists on coming along. In Rachel Ingalls' tale of transformations, the ill-used wife falls in love with a dashing game warden who is believed to possess the qualities of the lion he once killed...
Cultural differences also prompt some students to live off campus. Jessica A. Zern '88, an Orthodox Jew of the Lubavich sect, lives with a rabbi's family in Brighton because she says it is difficult to be a religious Jew living in the Houses. Samer Nadir '89, a native of Lebanon who lives with his parents in Arlington, adds that Americans and Lebanese think differently about living off campus during college...