Word: rev
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Because of rising community complaints about off-campus parties, the Rev. Edward J. Hanrahan, dean of students at B.C., has been making frequent visits to the gatherings off-campus to make sure the festivities don't get out of hand...
Christin Theology and the Holographic Model: Explorations in Swedenborg's Religious Thought: Ecclesiology and Ethics, Rev. Dr. George F. Dole, Swedenborg School of Religion, 48 Sargen St., Newton...
Outside the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, some 50 miles from the Mexican border, the Rev. John Fife nailed up a neatly painted sign that reads: THIS IS A SANCTUARY FOR THE OPPRESSED FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. Fife is now facing the consequences of that proclamation. This week he and an ecumenical group of ten others, including two Roman Catholic priests and a nun, will go on trial in Tucson on charges of conspiring to transport and shelter Central American aliens. If they are found guilty, the sentences on the conspiracy charges could be as severe as five years in prison...
...crusade, acting as an unwitting supplier of cheap labor in the U.S. (Many of the refugees do end up working as janitors, maids and dishwashers.) Others complain that Sanctuary is abetting Marxist movements by giving a platform to some left-wing refugees who want to denounce U.S. imperialism. The Rev. Richard Neuhaus, a Lutheran minister who is director of New York City's Center on Religion and Society, says of Sanctuary: "It's political theater...
...some Sanctuary activists, morality can override politics. Gary Cook, associate pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Massillon, Ohio, says, "We're a very conservative group of folks politically. But once we encountered the refugees face to face, we couldn't justify not taking them in." Notes the Rev. William Sloane Coffin of Riverside Church in New York City: "We don't apologize for the political aspect. God is concerned not just with your sins and my sins, but with the sins of the nation...