Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis of faith has overtaken the churches more rigorous, perhaps, than was ever true before. Structures of church life and congregational worship are under serious questioning. The Bible has increasingly ceased to be a book to be listened to. It is asked whether even Jesus points beyond man to God. And yet, just because this is the situation, God's promise to make new must become explosive in our midst...
...Uppsala (of a total of 750) represented the most powerful single bloc. The ecumenical movement has slowed in the face of continued differences over fundamental issues of faith. Potentially most serious of all for the WCC is the emergence of "underground churches," in which growing numbers of Christians worship in far-out manners and modes that represent a revolt against the more rigid religious superstructure of the World Council...
...problems therein, Polanski stopped looking for solutions with Cul-de-sac which ends hopelessly with all relationships breaking down and everyone left in their own tortured hell. Not content to leave his films in limbo, Polanski seems to offer a solution to isolation by affirming the brotherhood of devil worship and the black forces, rather than warning us of their existence...
...good. Grown-ups shouldn't want the bad guys to win. They can erase the black-and-white division between good and evil, or make it tougher for the good guys, or even cloud everything in ambiguity. But there are too many reasons around for not affirming devil worship to allow us to accept Polanski's recent films without pausing for thought...
Levin was technically correct about such details as kosher slaughterhouses and religious services, though from all accounts, these are severely limited, and he conceded a "shortage" of Jewish articles of worship. Many U.S. Jewish observers are convinced that their Russian brothers are suffering persecution, or at least discrimination. Underlying this conviction is bitterness about Soviet Russia's anti-Zionist foreign policy and refusal to allow Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel. The very fact that the Moscow rabbi was in the U.S. trying to "establish contact" with U.S. Jewry suggests that some of the charges of anti-Semitism were...