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Lord of the Flies. William Golding's widely read novel of human frailty and the force of sin in society has been translated into an adventure story about castaway boys on a desert island that is often shocking but never frightening. Golding's harrowing allegory has been lost, and all that is left is an ineptly acted movie that will anger the book's partisans, perplex the uninitiated...
...solemn protest against the departure of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod from the historical position of the Lutheran Synodical Conference," the delegates voted overwhelmingly to leave the conference and end co-sponsorship with Missouri of several joint welfare and missionary programs. Missouri's sin: working with more liberal bodies who belong to the National Lutheran Council, which Wisconsin regards as a center of downright heresy...
...plane-wrecked on a desert island during a nuclear war, and describes how they regress from summer-camp camaraderie into savagery, sadism and murder. Between Golding's lines lies a frightening parable of evil, a strong case for the revival of the unfashionable concept of original sin, and an attempt, as he says, to "trace the defects of human society back to the defects of human nature." Students like it, Golding believed, because "here was someone who was not making excuses for society...
...best universities to come out of modern missionary work: St. Paul's, in Tokyo. Its mission roots first established by U.S. Episcopalians in 1859, the church has had only a tiny impact on the country-in large measure because Japanese cannot comprehend such Western theological notions as sin. "A sea of good material," mourns one priest, "and yet we can scoop up so little...
...known in officialese as "substandard housing," but they are figures in a land scape of hell. Wallant writes with lyrical affection of falling plaster, the colors of linoleum, the awful caprice of electrical fixtures, and the ebb and flow of cruel plumbing. He sniffs the eternal odors of poverty, sin and despair on stairway, landing and daybed. The flaking walls about his creatures are a barometer of the damp weather in the soul. His theme is the pursuit of grace among the abounding roaches...