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...came in as a champion of conservative Synod members who believe staunchly in the "inerrancy" of the Bible, including its factual accuracy. Thus Preus and his followers hold that Adam and Eve were historical individuals - a position, they contend, that is vital to such doctrines as original sin...
...Houston, some 250 people, many of them wearing black armbands in memory of the aborted unborn, gathered to protest the legality of such operations. Outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, a crowd demonstrated against the Roman Catholic Church's position, which holds that abortion is a sin. In a display of bad taste that could only weaken their case, the demonstrators crowned a woman "Pope," who issued a mocking benediction to the crowd that had assembled...
...Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, Drury (2) 3-I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Craven (10) 4-Postern of Fate, Christie (9) 5-The Honorary Consul, Greene (3) 6-Theophilus North,Wilder (4) 7-The Loo Sanction, Trevanian (8) 8-The Hollow Hills,Stewart (7) 9- The First Deadly Sin, Sanders (6) 10- Tuesday The Rabbi Saw Red, Kemelman...
...from the way the world looks on the evening news. Only there it is the government that appears a maze of fraud and deceit, its machine a mystery run by mad men. Watergate has given even greater cause to conspiracy theory; it wrecked public trust in the powerful, spotlighted sin among the elect. But not, for many, brightly enough. Nixon could be neither caught nor convicted. And a lesson was that nothing in the government is what it says or appears to be. Now nobody believes that the Energy Crisis is for real, but they can't be sure...
...hate that foolish game we played And the need that was expressed And the mercy that you showed to me Who ever would have guessed I went out on lower Broadway And I felt that place within That hollow place where martyrs weep And angels play with sin...