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With blue carpeting and simulated yellow-stained-glass windows, pulpit and miniature organ, the decor of the three tiny chapels is Modern Fundamentalist. What distinguishes the houses of worship is their mobility. Semitrailers with lighted crosses on their tractor cabs, they belong to Transport for Christ, a nomadic nondenominational mission to the truckers of North America. The mobile chapels can usually be found parked smack amidst a clutter of oil drums, automobiles and other semitrailer rigs at spots like the Mid-Continent Truck Stop in Mesquite, Texas, or the Mass. 10 Truck Stop outside Boston...
...evangelistic flair could prove useful in a church that is steadily losing its historical grip on the nation. Although the Church of England claims a baptized membership of 28 million people,* only 2.6 million are active enough to vote on parish affairs, and a mere 1.8 million worship at Easter. An equally important sign of church malaise is the declining interest in church work. Only 373 men entered the ministry in 1973, compared with 636 ten years before...
...bring more misery, degradation, and even death to loved ones than wars, disease and boozeless crime all put together, but loyalty will remain steadfast and true. Those who are dedicated to liquor will worship it, brag about it, shield it from criticism like a doting mother protecting a spoiled and criminal son, even when statistics show John Barleycorn to be probably our most expensive national "luxury...
...they ran a printing press and cultivated their rich farm land. The brothers of Taizé took no formal vows, but pledged themselves to celibacy, community of goods (both property and talents), and "acceptance of authority." They dressed plainly, as laymen, donning their white wool robes only for communal worship. The community grew modestly, selecting only a few of the many who sought to join...
...good and the bad sense. Over a decade of brilliant (obsessive?) research has produced the facts that Faulkner fetishists crave--and who has read Faulkner and is not in a small way a fetishist for facts about this mysterious man? Although I do not consider my own hero-worship of dead authors excessive, I did find it interesting that Faulkner patronized Aunt Rose Arnold's New Orleans whore-house at Chatres and Jackson Square. Similarly, Blotner's account of Faulkner's Hollywood years is as interesting as Time's "people" section...