Over the last few decades, universities have become the home of contemporary poetry in the United States, where nearly every major poet is also an academic. Poets, like other professors, teach classes, publish in […]
[…] jumped from Brock to the fish in the clotted aquarium. “I’m a small fish in a eat-dog world. Always a bigger fish waiting at the next corner. I ain’t giving my bishop your mo—” […]
[…] was actively baptizing.[3] After His resurrection, Jesus commanded His Apostles in Palestine to go out into the world to preach the Gospel and to baptize those that believed their teachings.[4] When He appeared to […]
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[…] 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.