about the divas, as Sir Charles Mackerras quoted: “...There has to be something unusual as well as competent about a diva, something compelling about her personality, whether you like it or not, whether it be charming or repellent… or both at the same time”. (Quoted in Matheopoulos,
An Olive Branch in Troubled Times On January 20, 1961, President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous inaugural address in the middle of the cold war. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union had caused much division in the United States election, resulting in his narrow victory. Kennedy, at the time he took the presidential office, was the first Roman Catholic and the youngest president to ever hold the position. These two factors caused even more speculation on whether Kennedy
I have seen in a few ministries, individuals find difficulty in incorporating Christian witness into their development work. Forcing individuals to resort to strictly development or witness in their minds. However, I have always come away a bit perplexed. In my personal experience, once Jesus entered my life, it was transformed and I am not alone in this experience. In fact, everyone can experience this transformation and as much as people like to think about how difficult it may be to experience
Theological Seminary ("Jim Berg"). The University itself was founded by an evangelist named Bob Jones Sr. in 1927 and created as a "thoroughly Christian college" supposed to follow a program which would follow the "absolute authority of the Bible" to shape American students ("History of BJU"). Both, Author and publishing house come from a firmly Christian background, following evangelical and Baptist traditions. These conditions make the product, Quieting a Noisy Soul, a program aiming towards sufferers
4.1 THE SOCIAL GOSPEL AND EVANGELICAL REACTION IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY The nineteenth century saw Evangelicals in England playing a major role in the social justice issues of their time: the abolition of slavery, the establishment of volunteer societies working among the poor to alleviate suffering, and political advocacy for improved working conditions in the new industrial economy. As well, there was unprecedented momentum in foreign missions. The pattern set by British evangelicals was
1. Lord Baltimore Lord Baltimore was the first of the English elites who received a proprietary colony from Charles I to populate, administrate, and protect. The king at the time was rewarding noblemen shares of the Virginia Company’s surrendered territories to create English colonies. Baltimore acquired his portion in 1632, with alleviation from royal taxation, the authority to employ judges, and the privilege of assembling a resident nobility. Baltimore intended the colony he named Maryland to
The short story, Candide, or Optimism, was wrote by Voltaire, who was a renegade author amidst the Enlightenment time period. This author questioned the mainstream ways of life from his childhood through adulthood writing with boldness, wit, and rebellion as his protesting voice (Puchner, 421). Holding such strong opinions landed him in exile on more than one occasion. It was during his first imprisonment that he launched his writing career (Puchner, 421). His first play won him notoriety and wealth
place around 1922 in the aftermath of the 1921 Settlement and the midst of the Civil War. A degree of Irish independence had been won, but at the cost of splitting Ireland into the Free State and the six northern counties. The play is an immediate response to utterly contemporary events, reflecting a period of huge political and social upheaval in Ireland. In addition to these political factors, Ireland, like so much of the industrialized world, was in deep economic depression. This resulted in unemployment
The Salvation Army was formed in London’s East End in 1865 by one- time Methodist Reform Church minister whose name was William Booth and his wife Catherine. In reality, Booth named this institution the East London Christian Mission. 150 years ago The Salvation Army was formed to function as a religious and charitable corporation. Whose purpose “is to lead men and women into a proper relationship with God” (What Is the Salvation Army? pp.8-9) the organizational structure of the Salvation Army does
communist takeover. The Soviets established the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan as the new communist government. This new government was very unpopular among the Afghan people. Jimmy Carter was the current president at the time in the United States. The Carter Administration was troubled by the recent invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets because of their interest in the Persian Gulf. Carter addresses this issue in his 1980 State of the Union address by establishing the basis for his foreign policy on