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...Ensign Peak Advisers, the investment firm owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), failed to file quarterly investment disclosures known as 13F forms and set up more than a dozen shell...
...But for all the specificities of this story — and there are momentum-draining dramatisations of the early days of the LDS church for context — its aim doesn’t seem to be to pour scorn on mainstream Mormonism...
...to the history, heritage and folklore of the United States....
...The historic visit of Pope Francis to Iraq this week was freighted with symbolism, designed to lift the morale of what he called a martyred church in a martyred land and, above all, to raise the banners...
...So we have an extensive archive of congregational hymns, worship and choral music that has suddenly become a resource of incalculable value....
...No woman had previously served in the episcopate of any church tracing its lineage from the first apostles consecrated by Christ....
...The chasm between Christ’s gospel of poverty and the palaces the bishops inhabited proved too great for the unlettered masses....
...Zurab Tsereteli, the sculptor Luzhkov favoured, became Moscow’s de facto official artist, commissioned to design the reconstructed Christ the Saviour Cathedral, Russian Orthodoxy’s main church....
...Moscow Outwardly, Putin and the head of the Russian church, Patriarch Kirill, have presented a united front....
...In 1952, Franco Pinna travelled to the region of Basilicata, the grim and isolated setting of Carlo Levi’s memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli....
...Lots of churches. I counted about one a mile. A few hundred yards from Daniel’s valley, there is a Church of Jesus Christ with a large billboard you cannot miss....
...A man of God welcomed me into his home, poured us both cups of English tea and talked about what has been happening to Jesus Christ in the land of Donald Trump....
...Horrified, yet having been taught that a husband is master of his wife just as Christ is leader of the church, she accedes....
...John Dryden’s poem inspired from Handel a 13-part work shared between soprano, tenor and chorale, spiced with a series of delightful instrumental obbligatos, all of which claim their place in the music of...
...“In Italy wine is an important part of everyday culture and the Catholic Church,” Frescobaldi explains. “It’s the blood of Christ.” But at times relations were thorny....
...It is for Christ to decide who the Christians are, who has in fact done the will of his Father....
...“Henry Moore [the modernist sculptor] would always walk on the other side of the street so as not to suffer contamination,” he said. “The membership now is a much broader church.”...
...His father, Frederick Christ Trump, was already a wealthy man. Others made more money — and won greater fame — from the protean business of constructing postwar middle-class New York....
...Mr Obama is accused of being a secret Muslim, a false prophet or the anti-Christ. Google the words “Obama” and “anti-Christ” and you will see what I mean....
...The idea of cryonics first took off in the United States in the 1960s after the publication of a book called The Prospect of Immortality by Robert Ettinger, a Michigan college professor, which argued that...
...Beyond the fun element, the intention was to recapture something of the congregational nature of a Lutheran church service....
...United....
...I really believe that in buying this baroque art I have acted out Christ’s true meaning of that verse.”...
...An invisible helper turns off all lights save for a single spot that is directed at the body of Christ on the cross, along with the hands of the priest holding aloft the wafer....
...As anyone who has read Carlo Lévi’s searing memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli will know, these were places of terrible suffering, poverty and hardship....
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