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...homosexuality a manifestation of sin? Is it a sickness?" So go the questions that lead off the July-August issue of Trends, a bimonthly adult education journal produced by the Christian Education staff of the United Presbyterian Church. The answer? A resounding and very un-Presbyterian...
Trends editors Dennis Shoemaker and Florence Bryant include a statement that the issue does not represent the "official position" of the United Presbyterian Church. They also print a declaration of the denomination's 1970 general assembly that "the practice of homosexuality is sin." But having bowed to the official position, the magazine then goes its own way in order to "stimulate inquiry...
...Pelosi has almost no other silence alumni to look to-except Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Silenced during his first year at the Point-1932 to 1936 -Cadet Davis survived to become a lieutenant general in the Air Force. An encouraging example, but not all together analogous: Davis' only sin was presumably his black skin...
...attitude in my parish," says Father James Czachowski, 46, of St. Ignatius Church, "is that Watergate is so far removed, we can't do anything about it. Pope Pius XII said, The greatest sin is that we do not recognize sin.' Watergate is so big that we don't recognize...
...gives him a chance to project the kind of dead-eyed savagery he has nearly patented as his own. He has the proper cunning and just the right kind of careful menace and restrained violence. He is not like a Graham Greene operative, haunted by guilt, shrouded in original sin. John Le Carre's world of moral acrostics would be alien to him. Lancaster plays a thug, an opportunist for whom commitment is solely a matter of expediency. But the movie does not give him much scope to develop any of this. Sometimes, standing on a dark street...