Word: christians
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...nothing sacred? After church leaders set about updating the United Methodist Hymnal in 1984, their most controversial acts were to excise one of the most popular hymns in the Protestant repertoire, Onward Christian Soldiers, and to strip verses from The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The literal-minded rationale: a pro-peace church should not use "militaristic imagery." Outraged parishioners would have none of it. The two hymns were restored -- banners, watch fires and all -- after the revisionists were inundated with 11,000 protest letters...
...dwell" becomes "pleased with us in flesh to dwell." In Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, "sons of men and angels say Alleluia" is recycled as "earth and heaven in chorus say Alleluia." As for other hymns: God of Our Fathers is now God of the Ages; Good Christian Men, Rejoice metamorphoses into Good Christian Friends, Rejoice; and O Little Town of Bethlehem's angels promise peace to "all on earth," not "men on earth...
When she was appointed in the fall of 1987, Schussler Fiorenza says, she was the first woman to have an endowed chair at the school. The author of 12 books, including In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins, she joined the faculty only last year...
Only later did he learn that the Tarazis were a prominent Christian family of intellectuals and professionals in Gaza and that his father's cousin, Zuhdi Terzi, was the PLO's observer at the United Nations...
...relationship that survives survives because you have different activities and do different things," Valerie A. Bogdan '89 says. Both she and her boyfriend, Christian F. Liles '89, play rugby, and as a result, they spend many of their weekends apart...