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...once infamous city of Sodom,* which has been pretty much out of the news since Lot's Wife turned into a pillar of salt and the whole sinful citizenry got its comeuppance (Genesis 19), was back in the limelight. Tel Aviv's Chamber Theater Company arrived in Sodom to perform for the local miners and settlers-among them, Israel's former Premier David Ben Gurion, now a sheep farmer. On a stage set up near the Dead Sea, 1,200 ft. below sea level, the actors put on a new play, Casablan, dealing with the social...
...Nashville, came an urgent invitation from the Ministerial Alliance of Phenix City, Ala. Would Preacher Graham bring his crusade to Phenix City for a "sin-killing, old-time revival, reaching into every soul?" This, to many, was just what the doctor ordered, since Phenix City, once known as Sodom, was in the midst of a political upheaval following the murder of a candidate for attorney general and the revelation of a pack of other high crimes (TIME, June 28). But before Graham could reply, the answer came from a different quarter. Announced Major General Walter J. Hanna who with...
...state. In reply, he declared: ". . . As they excommunicated me for the sacrilege of heresy, so I excommunicate them in the name of the sacred truth of God. Christ will judge whose excommunication will stand." He also said: "Why do we not . . . assault . . . the whole swarm of the Roman Sodom . . . and wash our hands in their blood?" Then for a year he went into hiding in the Wartburg, there to begin his translation of the Bible, a work as fundamental to the German language as the King James version is to English...
...Small wonder that attendance at the worship of God has suffered and with it knowledge of what constitutes genuine fellowship. The state of Sodom and Gomorrah was a teddy bears' picnic compared with the viciousness of the average parish life and its tribal customs, which in some cases are shockingly primitive...
...Often the last kick of indomitable individuality is against the accepted meaning of words, it is none the less a kick even if it misses its mark, like the legendary old lady who had always been under the impression that Cherubim and Seraphim were 'man and wife like Sodom and Gomorrah...