Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the pronouncements from the left fringes of contemporary scholarship. The efforts of moderate theologians to find new meanings in Scripture are burdened by the decrees of such groups as the Jesus Seminar, which seem determined to offend at all costs. The seminar is the invention of onetime Protestant clergyman Robert W. Funk, who now runs a Bible think tank, the Westar Institute. Since the mainstream press rarely covers the esoterica of New Testament criticism, he set an irresistible trap: he would gather "eminent" scholars, and they would put the events in the Bible to a vote. He passes around...
...These religious-right legal groups have done a very effective job of convincing people there is a war against religion in this country when there is not," says Barry Lynn, a lawyer and clergyman who is executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "In most parts of this country, institutions like public schools are getting along fine with religious people. In Texas alone there are 500 Bible clubs meeting before and after school. If we saw children being arrested for praying-a phrase they always use-or denied the right to carry a Bible...
YOUNG KEVIN REEVEY HAS RUN away from St. Vincent's orphanage in Newfoundland, and when the police bring him back, Brother Peter Lavin, who runs the place, is there waiting. Full of forgiveness, the clergyman brings Kevin into his study and sits the boy on his lap. "You're home now, child," he says, kissing Kevin's cheek, his neck, his bare chest. His passion spilling into parental devotion, he whispers, "Mama loves you." Finally Kevin dares to mutter, "My mother's dead and always will be. You're not my mother." Poor little fellow, he must be punished-flogged...
...ironically, by a black dancer.) The second half explores the nature of religious faith in an age plagued by evils like AIDS. It includes gospel singing, minstrel-show dancing and an improvised, unscripted conversation on whether the disease is God's punishment for homosexuality, conducted between Jones and a clergyman recruited from the local community. The piece concludes with the entire cast, along with previously selected volunteers from the audience, standing nude and silent onstage...
...antidrug raid gone awry leads to the death of a clergyman...