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The congregants of Corpus Christi are praying on borrowed time. Displaced from their Roman Catholic parish, 550 of them have assembled at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, N.Y. They sit upright in the shiny pews, unused to the immaculate splendor of the organ that frames the altar. But...
And don't say you haven't stumbled upon one of those places in the minivan, children strapped in behind you in those church pews--or maybe in a roadster, top down, the wind laughing through the sparse seedlings of your new plug-a-rug--and wondered how a nowhere...
Inside, seniors packed the pews. Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church Rev. Peter J. Gomes presided over the ceremony, seated in the front of the sanctuary.
Lyons, who won the convention leadership as a reformer, insists he has been a good steward, that he has paid down the convention's debts, that most of the payouts to himself and business associates were legitimate, that the truth will absolve him. "I am solidly resolved to put my...
And so it has been, for years--white guilt and black pain colluding to forget. But periodically the zeitgeist erupts with flashbacks to a tragedy whose costs are still exacted on the street corners of America, at water coolers, in classrooms, along Sunday pews. Now is such a time. Last...