Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
What Milton had that Collier hasn't is a sense of sin, and the overwhelming power and beauty of divine order. What Collier has that Milton hadn't is a sense of humor and a delight in the variety of chaos. For Milton the Fall was not merely revealed truth but a towering, tragic parable through which man could imagine how mortality and evil came into the world. Verse after Miltonic verse wrestles with the problem of free will and predestination, and throbs with the poet's knowledge that to survive humanely, men must paradoxically believe they...
...hell. Milton took a dim view of women. (Eve to Adam: "God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.") Collier's Eve is the durable and delicious heroine of the piece. In her innocence she mistakes Sin and Death for Love and Life, but Collier does not doubt her wisdom. She is snubbed by the Archangel Raphael, feels God is unfair to Adam and, wanting a child and the pulsing power of creation, escapes from a passive, vegetarian paradise into the flux of human history...
...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...