Word: worship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following the elections of new leaders last November, all three elected members of the Hillel steering committee attend the Conservative worship services, causing some members to wonder whether there is a trend away from the traditionally Orthodox leadership of the past...
...career, the equivalent of an experimental novel. Updike uses overarching themes to bind up the threads of his lengthy story: the decline of religious faith and the corresponding rise of the movies. "The novel's central thesis--that movie theaters have become modern America's houses of worship--is never really demonstrated in action," notes TIME's Paul Gray. "It is fascinating to watch a writer of Updike's dexterity cram and mold some tremendously diverse material into a single book. He renders, as tellingly as ever, the magic of individual moments. But for all its author's labors toward...
Quoting King, Kristal C. O'Bryant '98, president of the Black Students Association, said that "we can no longer afford to worship a god of hate. We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation...
...time is a convention. We decide when our day begins--half a solar period past the sun's zenith (not counting daylight savings time). And we decide when our year begins. It's our excitement at our own conventions that annually brings half a million of us to worship drunkenly the descent of a shining ball in Times Square...
...Galilee. It was there, according to the Gospels, that he began his public ministry, probably in A.D. 28. Archaeologists have uncovered a 1st century house in Capernaum that according to tradition was the home of St. Peter. The building contains a meeting room that might have been used for worship. Some experts speculate that this was the synagogue where Jesus preached, as recounted in John...