Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to make this a place where some people can't worship," she said...
...risk of provoking another letter exposing my crypto-liberalism, I confess that I find the country's present mood of Clinton-worship more inspiring than disconcerting. Quite aside from my opinions of his policies, I welcome the unfamiliar sensation of living in a society which feels that respect and enthusiasm for our political leaders is acceptable behavior even for intellectuals...
...could devotedly nurse his first wife as she lay dying of tuberculosis in a sanatorium a few miles from the wartime Manhattan Project, where he worked, yet later in life could make a sport out of picking women up in bars; a man who despised hero worship yet wrote books in which he was the hero; a man who rarely taught classes or took on doctoral students but is regarded as one of physics' great teachers. If some questions remain about exactly what made Feynman Feynman, and not just a garden-variety genius, that is no fault of Gleick...
...others point to women who have formed separatist "Women-Church" worship, a New Age blend of feminist, ecological, neopagan and Christian elements. One book offers liturgies to celebrate the coming-out of lesbians, teenagers' first menstrual period and cycles of the moon. In an Ash Wednesday rite, women repent not of their own sins but of the sins the church commits | against women. Last month, 30 members of Chicago Catholic Women gathered to chant, "I am a woman giving birth to myself; bless what I bring forth," and then shared eucharistic bread and wine -- without once uttering the name...
...lesser extent in Western Europe, it is an entrenched force in secular society and, increasingly, in Catholic agencies, campuses and parishes. In some liberal Protestant churches, the women's movement is on its way to becoming the single most important influence over how members worship and what they believe...