Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact of immigration lies behind America's worship of origins, its intense if erratic piety about the past--which combines sometimes with a perplexing indifference to its lessons. In America the past becomes totemic, and is always in a difficult relationship to the great central myth of American culture, the idea of progress and newness...
...Sundays Berners-Lee packs his family into the car and heads for a Unitarian-Universalist church. As a teenager he rejected the Anglican teachings of his parents; he can't bring himself to worship a particular prophet, a particular book. But "I do in fact believe that people's spiritual side is very important," and that it's "more than just biology...
...secret that every Sunday the Memorial Church congregation worships God and Jesus Christ. The Church is the house of God, reserved for prayer and worship. We are now in the season of Eastertide, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. What did Liu expect...
Didn't Liu sense that the service might have something to do with Jesus when he saw the archbishop wearing a cross around his neck as he proceeded down the aisle? Maybe Liu sensed that people came to worship God when the congregation read aloud from the Psalter. How about the Lord's prayer? That one is a dead give away: "Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name...
...circumstances that his religion becomes almost understandable. At the risk of drowning in psychobabble, suffice it to say that a combination of unguided passion, spiritual and sexual repression and mental confusion arising from the tag-team influence of socialist-atheist Dad and Bible-thumping Mom lead Alan to worship the mystical horse-deity Equus (Latin for "horse"). It is the intersection of reality with Alan's fantasies that leads the emotionally undeveloped boy to commit such a ghastly deed. As the play progresses, however, it becomes less about Alan and more a commentary on the restrictive conventions of normality that...