Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have studied your issue of June 14 from cover to cover, and nowhere do I find your weekly report of Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr's marathon prescription for the elimination of sin and wrong-thinking. You have so accustomed us to this treatment, week in & week out, that no longer can we find peace without our regular dosage...
...Testament. Jesus sanctified marriage by His first miracle at Cana. And Christ said: ". . . What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Saint Paul, however, urged Christians who were unmarried to stay single. Marriage, he believed, was only for those in whom the temptation to sin was too strong...
...Bainton: "Marriage, said Augustine, is good. Sex as such is not evil. But the purpose of sex is propagation, and anything in excess of that intent is evil. It is an evil, however, from which no married couple is ever free . . . That which outside of marriage is a mortal sin, within marriage is but a venial sin, provided no artificial device is used to prevent offspring...
...couple's future was highly uncertain. In the view of her church, Anne had fallen into "grave sin." Gossip around Michael's peripatetic court had it that his assets were only $30,000, two cars and one jeep.* "Michael wants to buy a farm in the States and earn his living," a member of his entourage said. "Do you think he has enough...
...states, to Utah as the state "where men have as many wives as they can support." In Nevada, the "two principal cities are in competition. In Las Vegas people get married and in Reno they get divorced." New England, said the scripts, was "founded by hypocrisy" and Texas "by sin...