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Margaret was a deeply pious woman who was subsequently canonized, and her youngest son, David I (1124–1153), founded a church in her name on the highest point of the Castle Rock (St.
The pious spin: "Oneness becomes a proof of the authenticity of the gospel ," a Lutheran bishop told the Washington Post . The practical spin: The two churches need to pool their dwindling resources and memberships.
New York 's Walter Kirn dissents from the pack, complaining of McKibben's books in general--"his combination of arrogance and sincerity, narcissism and asceticism, is riveting and infuriating at once"--and of this book in specific--"The thesis is ancient and hard to argue with, though something in McKibben's pious manner may make one want to try."
Swift's “Meditation upon a Broomstick,” for instance, impressed the Countess of Stanford as deeply pious instead of hilariously parodic.
After two centuries of religious heresy, the Church needed a spiritual renewal, finding the perfect ally in Francis of Assisi (1182–1226), pious without being troublesomely militant.