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...intends men and women to play in his service. Catholic officials insist that they recognize women's gifts and full spiritual equality but want to preserve distinct roles for each gender. All sides note that for his time, Jesus bestowed uncommon dignity upon women and that in the New Testament church they were remarkably visible as speakers, teachers and deacons...
...close reading of the Old Testament reveals that Adam, Solomon and many other major Biblical characters were ancestors of the African people, the Rev. Dwight McKissic said to a gathering of more than 25 people at Boylston Hall last night...
This religion had a deep impact on his music. For those outside its mysteries, Rastafari seemed to combine Old Testament mysticism and a kind of pan-African call to arms with a liberal indulgence in sacramental ganja, or pot. Ganja has a fearful potency, but it isn't as strong as Marley's music. Rastafari remained arcane to most off-islanders, but Marley's devotion to it produced the last great soul music...
Selections were taken from the Bhagavad Gita, the Greek New Testament, works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and New England's First Fruits. The latter is the earliest account of the work of Harvard College students and faculty...
There's an undeniable tingle about 1,000 years. Some of it stems from the magical allure of special numbers, and some of it from Scripture. The 20th chapter of the New Testament book of Revelation (or Apocalypse) inscribes a famous vision of martyrs who "reigned with Christ a thousand years." This is the origin of the celebrated capital-M Millennium (from the Latin for thousand...