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...fans like to describe our passion in religious terms, as if the places our heroes play are secular cathedrals. It's easy to see why. When you truly, deeply love a sports team, you give yourself up to something bigger than yourself, not just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the mass of the crowd, but because being a fan involves faith. No matter what its current form may be, your team is worthy of blind devotion?or will soon redeem itself. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said in the 1950s: Wait 'til next year...
...fans like to describe our devotion - the word says a lot - in religious terms, as if the places our heroes play were secular cathedrals. It's easy to see why. When you truly, deeply love a sports team, you give yourself up to something bigger than yourself, not just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the crush of the crowd, but because being a fan involves faith. No matter what their current form may be, your team is the best - and if it doesn't prove that now, it will soon. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said...
...ever walked into a church and thought, "That pulpit would look perfect in my garden," LASSCO St. Michael's might be able to help. Based in a converted Victorian church in the heart of London, LASSCO sells everything from ecumenical artifacts to secular statuary. When a developer guts a chapel or strips the original features from a Georgian home, LASSCO's experts will carefully salvage the architectural antiques. The firm's cavernous St. Michael's warehouse is jammed with around $7.5 million worth of curios. A set of elegantly cast stair spindles removed from the Royal Albert Hall (a bargain...
...more than the intellect-driven, dogmatically conservative transitional figure they expect him to be. My first impression of his papacy is that it is promising. Daniel Breitenmoser St. Gallen, Switzerland Praise God for a conservative Pope. The world does not need a Pope who would bend to its questionable secular values. What is necessary is to have leaders who will stand up for what's right and fight for the morals of God's timeless word. Each generation has lowered the bar a little further and been more lenient than the previous generation. It's time we raise our standards...
Your report "Faith and Frat Boys" told of college students who are pursuing a relationship with God [May 9]. You successfully described the courage and faith necessary for Christian students to live their beliefs in a secular college culture that is sometimes hostile to them. As a college minister, I appreciated TIME's accurate portrayal of today's college students, the vast majority of whom are giving serious thought to where they are on their spiritual journey...