Word: theodosius
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...learn biology, as the subject is understood today. The relation of science and morality is an important matter. Creationism may belong in social studies or the history of religion, but it should not be pushed into biology classes or textbooks, especially not by legislative fiat. As celebrated Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky put it: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution...
...boycott gives those committees around the world all kinds of apocalyptic visions: the sacred grove in ruins, the Games destroyed as surely as they were in A.D. 393, when the Emperor Theodosius proscribed them. If the Americans and others boycott Moscow, they say, then the Soviets might withdraw from the Olympic movement, denouncing it as a "tool of the imperialists." The 1984 Games in Los Angeles will be a forlornly restricted drama without the Soviets and their friends. The Olympics will cease to be a world movement. The Olympic torch will...
...full title is His Beatitude, the Most Reverend Theodosius, Archbishop of New York, Metropolitan of All-America and Canada. Theodosius, 44, was born Theodore Lazor, the son of a Slavic immigrant who worked in a steel plant in Canonsburg, Pa. (pop. 11,400), for half a century. The election of the last primate, Russian-born Metropolitan Ireney, in 1965 exposed a division between Russian speaking elders and younger members anxious to Americanize the church...
...bishop in New England. In choosing a successor to Ireney, now 85 and ailing, the delegates in Montreal nearly gave a first-ballot victory to Hartford, Conn.'s, popular Bishop Dmitri, a Texas-born, former Baptist who converted to Orthodoxy as a teenager. But the bishops instead chose Theodosius. He comes from an Orthodox family in the church's Pennsylvania heartland and thus would be easier for older members to accept than a convert like Dmitri...
...Theodosius, who graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., and St. Vladimir's, the church's growing seminary in Crestwood, N.Y., is not fluent in Russian. An open, easy man, whose main passions besides the church are music, gardening and cars, he is more a pastoral than an intellectual churchman. Among other assignments, he revived once-flagging Orthodox parishes in Alaska, where the Russian mother church set up its first North American outpost in the 18th century...