Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founder and inspiration of the M.C.C. is the Rev. Troy Perry, a homosexual who admits it without embarrassment or shame. Perry preached his first sermon when he was 13, and became a licensed Baptist minister at 15 (a year later he switched to Pentacostalism because he found its kinetic services more to his liking). Though he had his first homosexual experience at nine, he did not accept his sexual orientation until he was 23. By then he was married, the father of two sons and pastor of the Church of God of Prophecy in Santa Ana, Calif. When he finally...
...view, a group of El Dorado's most solid citizens reflects the town's bitter confusion about the war. As elsewhere, there is the danger of turning the conflict into a morality play. Honor, freedom, the future of America, say those who echo the President; crime and shame, say the radicals, quoted daily on TV and in the press. Those in the middle who cannot live with either version are increasingly beleaguered. Most people still talk about making a stand against Communism, though they are increasingly unsure whether Viet Nam represents the right place or the right method...
...height but also by its length. Ingmar Bergman's towering concern has endured a lifetime, and it has centered on a single theme: the silence of God. Of late, that silence has been as clamorous as a scream in such films as The Hour of the Wolf and Shame. With The Passion of Anna the Lord takes discernible form. "This time," the narrator declares, "his name was Andreas." But given the trappings of speech and senses, the earthly incarnation remains spiritually mute...
...between sex and morality. In fact, they do take an implicit stand on sexual morality. They believe in the principle?hardly new but easily forgotten?of "giving in order to get." They also believe that sex is a mutual experience into which both partners must enter without reservation or shame, and that the ultimate goal of sex is communication?the only true basis for marriage. Their entire course of therapy is aimed at expelling from the bedroom two invisible people who do not belong there. Masters and Johnson call them "spectators": the man worrying whether he will be successful this...
...heaven not the same? Why are the angels crying and saying, "It's such a shame...