Word: steinmetz
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...Indulgences are a handy marketing tool for the church, a way of encouraging people to amp up their spiritual life. But figuring out exactly what they are and how they work can be confusing. "It brings people who aren't Catholic up short," says David Steinmetz, a professor of the history of Christianity at Duke Divinity School. (Read "Finding God on YouTube...
...countryside (he grew up in rural Iowa). "I was like, 'Why wouldn't you go to a rural area?'" he says. Baker-Trinity is an indefatigable local booster. "They're talking about making my whole town wireless!" he says enthusiastically. Equally smitten are his parishioners, like Howard Steinmetz. After decades working his farm--most of them minus a hand lost to a field chopper in 1959--Steinmetz is finally auctioning off the land. Selling, he says, "is tough." But his religious life is supporting him. "Everybody was pretty excited to get a young one," he says, indicating Baker-Trinity...
...Others couldn?t resist skipping a day?s classes. ?This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing,? said Rocio Michquiri, a 17-year-old student at Steinmetz High School. ?There?s more learning out here. So not today, not school...
...Emory University, has long felt a connection between Joseph as patriarch of an unexpectedly blended family and African-American slave history, in which men "found their own wives full with child and at the birth discovered the child was a mulatto." But for the most part, explains David Steinmetz, a religious historian at Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C., "Joseph plays a very small role in Protestantism, aside from cameo appearances in Advent and on Christmas...
...mistake. In a symbolic way, I stopped drawing School Daze: the last panel when I got married was "the end." I was putting away childhood things. I was putting away my dreams. That became obvious to me a few years later, when we had an alumni show at Steinmetz High School. My best buddy Jim Brophy and I wrote and performed in the alumni show. Doing the kinds of things I did in high school brought back to a conscious level what I had given...