Show 212002 — Cj' The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday March tasnimess to©©© WOnem ©©afl ds SDa© ©E® By David Yount Scrlppe Howard News Service By this reckoning every time we prey for something for ourselves we are implicitly acknowledging that like Robin Hood we are stealing ' Political economists are inclined to believe that we live in a zero-susociety a society in which nothing good happens in one sector without depriving another In certain obvious respects the theory goes even when we prey we are seeking personal advantage The fanner whose prayer foe rein is answered deprives the vacationer of a sunny holiday The team whose prayer to win is satisfied ensures that its opponents will be losers During wars whole nations prey for victory yet all enemies cannot prevail For every winner there is a loser from someone else — Commentary ‘ That surely explains why some prayers are not answered and it also suggests better objects of prayer If all nations prayed for peace instead of victory for example no one would suffer If we all preyed for prosperity and then worked to increase It everywhere everyone would win and no one would lose When businessmen and women paign A1 Gore promised that if elected he would conduct die nation’s business by asking himself “What would Jesus dor In 1976 at the age of 30 Mitchell a Christian fcas the president of Applied Ceramics wholly focusing his life on profit “I had compartmentalized my life” he told The Washington Post Deciding that he could no longer serve both God and mammon he invited 70 Atlanta-are- a business leaders to agree on a plan to operate their companies according to Christian principles The movement spread and there are now ISO Fellowship chapters across the nation What do business people pray for? prey we assume it is for their own profit even at another company’s expense But the 2000 members of the Fellowship of Companies for Christ International beg to differ They prey instead for divine guidance in their business dealings Doesn’t God have better things to do than increase a company’s profit margin? Yes these capitalists acknowledge but God is in the details however trivial they may seem to the rest of us Fellowship chairman Bobby Mitchell argues that “God has numbered every hair on If he cares about the your head hairs on your head he certainly cares about the minutiae of your life" During die last presidential cam Ollie Thomas owner ofMary land’s Thomas House Coffee Service preys for better quality control and better training for his employees Gary Williams of Greenbelt Md whose firm manages 23 hotels in eight states prays to make business deci- - born-aga- in people After the business plummet- ed but he resisted laying off his work force Now he has three new contracts That’s the answer to prayer he believes '' The businessmen and women meet over brown-ba- g lunches every other week to consult God as their CEO At a recent meeting with reporter Parker they concluded by praying for her and The Washington Post i Authors dispute meaning of Crucifixion cross s Rldupd N It’s the mbst familiar sym- bol you can imagine but ponder for a moment how odd it is that Christians display an “emblem of suffering and shame” as the hymn says The cross reminds us that Jesus was executed as a common criminal hardly the upbeat message a publicist might choose Yet two decades after Calvary the Apostle Paul wrote “Far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Galatians 6:14) Under this mysterious emblem the early Christians vanquished the empire that had crucified Jesus The symbol holds power Two days after the World Trade Center attack a rescue worker wept as he discovered a cross two fused metal beams buried in the rubble This cross provided comfort to impromptu worshippers amid the mourning Yet the cross is spumed by Christian liberals Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebec1 ca Ann Parker They find -- 21st-centu- in hailing the authors’ attack upon what he considers “the most unfortunately successful idea in the history of Christian toevil ‘To say that Jesus’ executhought” And the current Unitarian Universalist magationers did what was historically necessary for salvation is zine features Brock and Parkto say that state terrorism is a er in a cover story headlined and that “Violence and Doctrine: How torture good thing murder are die will of God" Christianity Twists the Meaning of Jesus’ Death” they explain in their book ' “Proverbs of Ashes” By contrast another current author joins Paul in glorying Brock a Harvard Divinity ' in the cross Fleming Rut-- 1 researcher has chaired the board ministries joint global ledge a traveling Episcopal of die Christian Church and preacher who lives in Port Chester NY embraces the United Church of Christ and Book of Common Prayer’s was a theology speaker at the Communion affirmation that Disciples' national assembly Jesus Christ made “a foil perlast year Parker is a United fect and sufficient sacrifice Methodist Church minister oblation and satisfaction for and president of die Unitarian Universalist seminary in Berkeley Calif Roman Catholic leftist John Dominic Crossan has joined belief in Jesus’ saving death repellent saying this sanctifies violence and submission Osdlng Religion Writer ry 20-fo- ot the sins of die whole world" Rutledge has collected seasonal meditations in her book “The Undoing of Death” (Eerdmans) Though sermons often fall flat on the printed page this book is unusually readable devotional fare She believes the cross is misunderstood if we forget that Jesus the Son is equally God along with the Father (which liberal Christians and Unitarians deny) And some conservativesportray “a wrathful Father piling condemnation on an innocent victimized Son This mistake must be strenuously resisted” she writes The heart of the atoning sacrifice on the cross Rutledge insists is “die fact that the Father's will and the Son's will are one This is an action that the Father and the Son are taking together” They are “accomplishing our redemp- tion together" acting in united love for humanity However her Good Friday sermons worry less about such liberal or conservative theories than about peoples’ inclination to pretend their sins aren’t all that bad 2450 North Main 2K)925SrflSui2a rat The Time Machine 23 70S Dragonfly km 4XHD9XSalSi210 Wb Ware Soldwrs n &15tl5SlSui215 Sat 12 Noon Praviow Shewing of ICE AGE CINEMAi3 4:30 700 9:30 ‘Sat A Sun 210 40 Days and 40 bfighlsn ' 4:30 705 Sa& Sun 210 A Beautiful Mind 4:35 7:10 945 Sal & Sun 200 C ACH El VALLE 300 North Main Bahind John Q io-- 'Hffctf 38 OCEANS 11 9:25 pa Vnlu 9I9N 4J0 700-- See Page A6 Evfl m 430 70S 930 Sc tew er Ctewe movynora dch ' 00 ft Siv 205 Ttetee n 925 -- SdASul 200 REELiTIME 'iidiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMid MAINS ranrttlUHMn Goafot H Qaorga Ctogmy i OCEANS BEUBfpa-- Daly MS Randan! 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