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...Taos Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, the land is both religion and church. Since the 13th century they have particularly venerated Blue Lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. For them, Blue Lake is roughly analogous to Catholicism's Vatican or Judaism's Zion. But the tribe has owned neither land nor lake since 1906, when Teddy Roosevelt took them over as part of Carson National Forest. Although the House of Representatives has passed legislation in the past two years to right the old wrong, the measure has always been killed in the Senate Interior Committee...
...momentous church mergers are in the works. One would merge the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church, the United Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., the United Church of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the AME Zion Church, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S., and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church into a 25-million member Church of Christ Uniting. The other would merge the Episcopal Church with the Roman Catholic Church. Thus, the Episcopal Church stands as the pivot for the possible creation of a single church within Christendom of mind...
Cabalistic Wisdom. Agam was born Yaacov Gipstein in Rishon le Zion, when Israel was still Palestine. The son of a cabalistic rabbi, he never entered a school until the age of 13 and even now credits much of his thinking and visual vocabulary to cabalistic wisdom. Since Judaism forbids the creation of graven images, he searched for ways and means of producing a "living" art, one that while not depicting reality would yet approximate its changing character. After moving to Paris in 1951, he developed an interest in science and technology, which in turn led to his experiments with optical...
...German Department will offer a full-year course in elementary Yiddish next fall. Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society, will teach the course which is limited to 20 students...
...What the proxy challengers are asking is that CommEd take action on both these fronts, using low-sulfur fuel and finding a different way to cool Zion...