Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...During his last illness, Michael courageously came to work, sometimes walking with a cane. On a day when he didn't need it, he commented wryly, "No pain, no cane." In the latter months of 1990, Michael was conducting interviews for a future story about the resurgence of Goddess worship, talking to people around the country who could help assess the movement and put it in historical perspective. The story appears in this issue, and after the final paragraph you will see the words "Reported by Michael P. Harris/New York." It is his last byline...
...mark Earth Day last week, four women and two men stood on a hilltop outside Mount Horeb, Wis., literally praying to Mother Earth. "Sacred Earth Power, bring healing to planet Earth," intoned barefoot Selena Fox, priestess of Circle Sanctuary. Worshipers responded with a crescendo chant, "Clean soil. Clean soil," then pledged to do a variety of ecological good deeds and joined in a hug. Similar nature worship was part of Earth Day festivals from Boston, where the Goddess Gospel singers performed on the waterfront, to Berkeley, where devotees drummed and sang for a crowd...
...ceremonies were part of a growing U.S. spiritual movement: Goddess worship, the effort to create a female-centered focus for spiritual expression. Most participants are women who seek a deity other than God the Father, and a faith less patriarchal than the Judeo-Christian tradition seems to offer. Adherents claim the movement involves as many as 100,000 U.S. women...
...attend school and learn math, history, and English, Fauth's life involved a lot of juggling; at the end of each school day he returned home to his father, a priest, and a household in which the number one priority was God. His home life mainly involved worship and working on his family's alfalfa farm...
...always agree with other Queer people, and even though people like Mr. Gonsalves may try to tell me what to do. In the same way, I am not going to abandon the Catholic Church, which is a source of strength and peace for me, and a way of worship that I love, simply because I don't always agree with its policies and because people like O'Connor try to tell me what...