Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...qualities may be called common to Andean art, they are perfectionism and power-worship. The current exhibition abounds in exquisite craftsmanship, and seldom, outside a zoo, have so many round, staring eyes and sharp, bared fangs been shown in one place...
...Donald Soper, 51, such strenuous witness is the only hope of Christianity and Methodism. When he was elected president of the British Methodist Church last July, he called, in his acceptance speech, upon his fellow Methodists for "greater adventure in open-air evangelism . . . lively, informed, joyous . . . work and worship." He continued the lunch-hour meetings at Tower Hill, where he has been preaching his vigorous version of socialist-pacifist Christianity for the past 26 years, and did his best to follow founder John Wesley's example of making all England his parish...
...would be canonized at once. Explained Ecclesia: "In the eyes of the church, martyrdom is obtained only when a life is given in defense of faith or Christian virtue." ¶ In Nashville, a group of leading executives organized a movement called "Businessmen for Religious Action." With the slogan "Worship God More in '54," they set about plans for selling religion like a new product, with film strips, pamphlets, window posters and car tags, speeches to civic clubs and printed inserts for electric and telephone bills...
...President Eisenhower's pastor, the Rev. Edward Elson of Washington's National Presbyterian Church, credited Ike with leading "one of the great periods of religious renaissance in our national history." Said he: "There is a fresh naturalness and manliness to prayer ... By his regular participation in Christian worship, by the maintenance of his personal spiritual disciplines and through his public utterances, the President is pointing America to the way of faith...
...distilling weird comedy from sex, religion and primitive passion. But his new novel (his sixth) is neither weird nor comic. It shows what happens when the laws of the jungle are replaced by the codes of the suburbs, and it portrays with grimness the lives of colored people whose worship of ancestral ju-jus has changed into keeping up with the Joneses...