Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homes, hospitals and hostels of Sydney's Central Methodist Mission, which Walker also heads. It even conducts group therapy for many of the disturbed people who come its way, although Walker and Life Line's volunteers believe that "the greatest therapy of all" is worship...
Perhaps Orthodoxy's greatest complaint against Rome is the existence of the so-called Uniat churches-some 12 million Catholics who accept the Pope as the Vicar of Christ but observe Eastern forms of worship. Orthodox church leaders unanimously regard these Eastern Catholics as spiritual fifth-columnists, seeking to subvert their people from the true and ancient faith...
...Girl from Boston. Lachaise loved all women through his worship for one. He was 20, and an art student in Paris, when he met Isabel Dutaud Nagle. She was American, ten years older than he, married, and the mother of a small boy, but nothing could deter their romance. "She became the primary inspiration that awakened my vision," wrote Lachaise, and gave up a promising career in France to follow Isabel home to Boston...
...lost his power sometimes assumes an aura of gallantry. Biographer Isaac Deutscher seems especially susceptible to this gallantry. An ex-Trotskyite and a respected writer on Communism, Deutscher has turned out an exciting, exacting biography that is very likely definitive, but he cannot prevent a touch of hero worship from creeping into his prose. Trotsky, Deutscher says, "strove to rally his fighters to the most impossible of causes. He sought to set them against every power in the world: against fascism, bourgeois democracy and pacifism; and against religion, mysticism and even secularist rationalism and pragmatism. He demanded unshakable conviction, utter...
Walking or Crawling. Do jazz and modern dance really have anything to do with the worship of God? Glenesk believes that any creative art is somehow touched with the divine. Moreover, drama at the altar attacks what he regards as the greatest enemy of meaningful worship: habit and routine. "You should not go to church out of habit," he says. "I am all for the idea of enjoyment. You should go because it is exciting. One week you can come out walking on air, another time crawling on the ground...