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...Ashcroft notes in his 1998 book, Lessons from a Father to His Son, Kings Saul and David were anointed in much the same way. So are England's monarchs. Yet the ad hoc ceremony hints at the kind of enthusiastic, free-wheeling worship that has historically marked Ashcroft's branch of evangelical Christianity. (Some Pentecostals anoint their houses and TVs.) It also happens to be a style his denomination has downplayed as it has moved into the mainstream, a move that no one exemplifies better than Ashcroft...
...Angeles. Participants fell into trances, spoke in tongues and otherwise experienced what they said were the gifts of the Holy Spirit, like those bestowed on Jesus' Apostles. Separate black and white denominations soon formed, but Spirit-soaked, "experiential" Christianity took off. Globally, it is the fastest- growing Western worship style, with up to 500 million adherents. Nationally, its largest white-majority denomination is the Assemblies of God based in Springfield, Mo., into which John Ashcroft was born a kind of upwardly mobile prince...
...cathedral built in 1960 that looks like a huge brown traffic cone. Inside, the pews are semicircular in shape, radiating from the center like wooden ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. In the 1800s, despite the supression of Afro-Brazilian religions, followers of such faiths would secretly worship West African deities during Roman Catholic rites. For example, someone might act as if they were praying to the Virgin Mary when they were really praying to Iemanja, the goddess of the sea. The tour guide doesn't tell us any of this. She does point out that Sao Sabastiao...
...look at Cristo Redentor I think of Catedral de Sao Sebastiao and then all those Afro-Brazilian worshipers thinking about their own gods during Christian ceremonies. I wonder if it's possible, just possible, to come to Rock in Rio, to worship at the temple of the Gods of Pop, and really be praying to wilder, more radical spirits. Or if this whole Rock in Rio thing is just another big piece of unredeemable commercial crapola and we are all going to hell anyway...
...barrio of San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican immigrants, he found the church to be a refuge. "The parish was the only institution in the city where we felt fully at home," he recalls, "fully free to express ourselves in our own language, our singing, our festivities, our worship." As rector of his city's historic San Fernando Cathedral for 12 years, Elizondo became a leader in bringing Mexican religious customs and traditions into the Catholic service. His annual Christmas posada, for example, re-enacts the pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph, with the couple trekking through the neighborhood...