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...creatures elsewhere in space, he asked, how could mankind be so arrogant as to think itself uniquely favored by God? What worried Lewis was that earthly man might some day send his missionaries out to other planets, pressing salvation upon creatures who have no need for it, denouncing as sin differences of behavior that God had created and blessed. Thus the witty skeptic proposed
...marriage. Jesus even condemned lustful thoughts, saying that the man who indulged them had "already committed adultery in his heart." But in recent years, pressed both by changing sexual behavior and by liberal theologians, the churches have reluctantly come to grips with a "new morality" that questions whether any "sin"-including adultery or other nonmarital sex -is wrong in all circumstances...
...LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA is contemplating an 85-page booklet on Sex, Marriage and Family, written by 21 eminent churchmen. "Premarital and extramarital sexual intercourse may well be-and more frequently are than not-acts of sin," says the booklet. But it adds that these acts are sinful not because they are intrinsically wrong, but because they are often engaged in for selfish reasons by men and women who are sinful by nature. A church convention has urged Lutherans to study the booklet, while also passing a statement affirming that "sexual intercourse outside the context of marriage union is morally...
...Basses--storm up that chromatic scale on "Sie noch so brummen." Brummen means, well, movement, confusion, like the French brouiller, boulverser. Make beautiful German vowels people: "Sie noch". And sopranos, pull that C-natural in measure 15 for everything it's worth. It makes the most ghastly chord for "sin...
...wages of sin have been marked PAID for John Profumo. The British War Minister, who was forced to resign in disgrace from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet in 1963 for having lied to Parliament about his affair with Party Girl Christine Keeler, was greeted warmly by Queen Elizabeth II. The occasion: the opening of Attlee House, an extension of London's famed Toynbee Hall, a rehabilitation center in the East End where Profumo has been working full time helping alcoholics, drug addicts, parolees and ex-convicts. Said Social Worker Profumo afterward: "It has been a wonderful...