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...compassionate and eloquent cook in both stage and screen versions of The Member of the Wedding. In 1951 she published His Eye Is on the Sparrow, a frank, resentful, sordid account of her life and religiosity ("The Catholic religion gives you a beautiful image to cuddle"). Rededicating herself to Christ, she sang regularly for Evangelist Billy Graham's crusades during the '60s. Although Waters made millions during her career, she was a soft touch and died poor. Said she: "Where I come from, people don't get close enough to money to keep a working acquaintance with...
...Christ as Myth...
...decidedly inaccurate to refer to Unitarianism as "a sort of vague Christianity without Christ." Although its early historical roots were in the Judaeo-Christian heritage, Unitarian religious philosophy has increasingly become a process of the rational-ethical-universal-mystical, and especially of the humanistic. These many tentacles represent a strength, not a diffusion...
LeBaron, an imposing (6ft. 4-in.), darkly handsome man, seems almost totally obsessed by his religion. Rather than accept his brother Joel's view of a charitable, merciful Christ, Ervil bases his belief on a preference for the wrathful God of the Old Testament. Says Polygamist Harold Blackmore of Utah: "He's always preaching this blood and thunder stuff-you know, if people don't live the civil law [of Ervil's God], cut their heads off. He is very pugnacious, but is also a smooth-tongued type." Residents of the Mexican villages where LeBaron...
Time has mercifully left many places untouched, including the Mediterranean island of Rhodes, which seems virtually unchanged from the days when it was a medieval cultural center. A center of commerce in the centuries before Christ, Rhodes once housed one of the seven wonders of the world, the magnificent Colossus, which fell in an earthquake in the third century...