Word: sinned
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Before the period was over, the Big Red hadsealed the series with another power-play goal.With McCormack in the sin-bin for holding, a KevinSneddon clearing attempt hit Weisbrod in front ofHarvard's net. Cornell forward Ryan Hughes slammedthe loose puck past a screened...
Avarice, arrogance, sleaze, fraud, carnal sin. Various American televangelists have already been accused of almost every imaginable transgression. What more could media-star ministers possibly be charged with? Answer: sloppy theology. That is precisely the theme of a new anthology, The Agony of Deceit, published by Chicago's fundamentalistic Moody Bible Institute (284 pages; $12.95). The book's twelve contributors (including former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who criticizes faith healing) have scoured books and sermon tapes and found the TV preachers guilty of egregious doctrinal heresy...
Among the more prominent evangelists coming under attack are Robert Schuller (Hour of Power) and Pat Robertson (700 Club). Both are portrayed as distorting the traditional Christian doctrine of original sin, which holds that each person is born sinful and thus requires redemption by Jesus Christ. Schuller, for instance, states that "the core of sin is a lack of self- esteem" -- not quite what St. Augustine had in mind...
...arrogance, avarice, sleaze, fraud and carnal sin were not enough for the industry, various televangelists are being charged with sloppy doctrine by fellow Bible Belters...
...political novel, Full Disclosure, which can be read as a parable on the conflict between high-minded intentions and moral blindness in the White House. But these days, Safire jokes, "Some guy broke into Watergate. I wrote Nixon's wage-and-price-controls speech. Where is the greatest sin...