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...St. Louis Park, Minn...
...wallowing bulk. Mariners fret about a 1,200-ft. ship that may require half a harbor to slow down, needs miles of room for a minor change in course and in extremis could wreak disaster. Sure enough, disaster occurred last week in waters off South Africa's Cape St. Francis...
Nationally, the Episcopal Church has lost a member every 15 minutes over the past decade. At Darien's St. Paul's Episcopal, though, Sunday attendance has climbed from 200 to 1,200 in less than five years. Observes the Rev. Everett ("Terry") Fullam, 47, a Harvard Ph.D. who is mainly responsible for infusing the local commuter set with Pentecostal fervor: "The church has functioned subnormally for so long that when it becomes normal, it seems abnormal...
...Evangelical Christians can understand the stark conversion of scapegraces and rapscallions, since the history of Christianity is full of agonizing personal reform (St. Paul. St. Augustine). Recalling the anguish of saints and mystics in their lifelong search for a flash from heaven or a sudden touch of grace, some Christians find it difficult to accept the validity of easy Evangelical contacts with God. Still, grace has always been amazing, and that judgment may be too harsh. Whether they wrestled mightily in their souls for a private sense of the divine presence or slipped salvation on as easily as a glove...
Shaw is the autocrat of the blackboard. His writing hand flies furiously across the surfaces of his plays, chalking up social, moral and intellectual lessons for the playgoer-students. The class almost always relishes the talking jags of the sage of Ayot St. Lawrence, for he never created a major character who was not indubitably and ebulliently G.B.S...