[…] adequately the extent and difficulty of the challenge entailed in the Christian ideal of being in the world but not of the world. We find it too easy to be both. We are deceiving ourselves, […]
Non-Catholic religious groups have been increasing at a rapid rate in Latin America since World War II. For example, during the five-year period, 1952-57, the number of Protestants expanded from 2,866,000 to 4,534,000—a fifty-eight […]
[…] put him in the class with the man who said, “There isn’t an honest man in the world.” Unthinkingly, he makes an admission that he, himself, is dishonest.[77] The transfer never took place. Although […]
[…] that I would be true to it all the rest of my life, and I’d fight the world against it if that’s what he wanted . . . [9] The “revelation and assurance came […]
[…] be society’s unnamed norm—unnamed because unobjectivized—that it becomes the object of fear and repulsion from the pluralist world of the Enlightenment.[5] The French philosopher used the term systematically to condemn superstition, various forms of […]
Perhaps others than Helen John, Amy Avery, Golden and Thelma Buchanan, and Spencer W. Kimball might have compounded an equally powerful scheme for blessing the lives of Indians, but to these individuals fell that lot.
[…] would be in the language of the original, but the idea is that the JST gives the English sense of the original Greek or Hebrew texts of the Bible. Many JST passages demonstrate commendable […]
[…] her grandmothers—powerful matriarchs—were town midwives for many years and helped bring most of her contemporaries into the world. Her mother seems pale and invisible before her maternal grandmother but was still a woman with […]
[…] designated friendship as an untapped natural resource and considered it as training for living in a social world. He also viewed nonsexual friendships as a vital means of eradicating loneliness from our lives and […]
[…] my chin, make-up from church still in place, trying to avert a headache by shutting out the world. Sundays became dreadful reminders of what I had lost. Sometimes my very patient and very believing […]