Word: rev
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Precisely because of its influence, the RSV is now a target of Protestant feminists and other critics who want to purge it of the male chauvinism that they find running all through its pages. Says the Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, a United Methodist mission official: "People are becoming increasingly sensitive to language that renders half the human race invisible." As it happens, such sentiment is strong in the National Council of Churches (N.C.C.), whose education division is overseeing the RSV revision. But the N.C.C.'s leaders have hesitated to alter the RSV radically, partly because the organization gets...
...Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, said that many Blacks believe that the recent murders of Black children in Atlanta, the rash of incidents on college campuses, and the Greensboro acquittals are part of a "nationwide conspiracy" against blacks. This sentiment, Jackson says, coupled with the election of Ronald Reagan, has resulted in "hysteria" in some Black communities...
Someone ought to inform the Rev. Jerry Falwell [Nov. 17] that if Jesus had wanted his followers to support Republicans, he would have ridden into Jerusalem on an elephant...
Religious dissidents have also suf fered. So far this year, 45 Evangelical Baptists have been arrested, including three prominent pastors. The Christian Committee for the Defense of Believers in the U.S.S.R. has been slated for extinction by the KGB. The committee's founder, the Rev. Gleb Yakunin, an Orthodox priest, was sentenced to five years in a labor camp plus five years of exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." On television last June, the widely revered Father Dmitri Dudko confessed to having slandered the Soviet system. The priest reportedly yielded to threats that all his parishioners would...
Denton sounded some other concerns. Strongly supported by the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, he wondered if teen-age unhappiness and suicides were not the result of excessive emphasis on sex in popular songs and TV shows. The salty-tongued admiral made light of his opponent's age ("too young") and intelligence ("I'm sure there are some 31-year-olds in the state who are smarter than me, but he's not one of them"). But in general, the candidates agreed on the issues: a balanced federal budget but greater defense spending and less...