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But the Polish church carries a conservative image overall, and its situation is unusual. One seasoned observer at the Protestant-Eastern Orthodox World Council of Churches considers Wojtyla's election "an expression of nostalgia" by the Cardinals, who see Poland's church as an "obedient" one that "does not have...
Last week's papal inaugural speech contained a noteworthy sentence on ecumenism: "Hopefully, thanks to a common effort, we might arrive finally at full communion" with other Christians. That does not appear to be mere lip service. Just four days before Wojtyla's election, Protestant Billy Graham preached to an...
In 1967 Jordan was elected the first black member of the Texas state senate, which contained "30 White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant men... and myself," she said.
A century ago, Muncie was an isolated agricultural town, the former headquarters of the Northern Ku Klux Klan. By the time the Lynds arrived in 1924, it was industrialized and dominated by the Ball family, who built a thriving fruit-jar industry as well as the local hospital, Ball State...
There are colder, less hospitable places, of course. The tricks memory plays are usually flattering. But one of the surprises to be found in The Stories of John Cheever is that the stories are almost always better than people remember. Never before has it been possible to see so much...