In classic Lutheran teaching, the salvation of the believer "by faith alone" does not curtail the need for constant charitable good works, as ill-informed critics allege.
"Those were the days when the professions were not open to women, so there were women of means who to keep themselves busy did charitable good works.
They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and - if married to princes or kings - be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile.
Savile, who carried out the crimes at the height of his fame as a BBC Radio 1 DJ and Top of the Pops presenter, was seen by his victims as a "charitable, good guy" who raised a lot of money for charity, the report says.
"This initiative will see retailers donating the proceeds to charitable good causes.
Alternative-sentencing consultants help convicted defendants prepare pleas for a light sentence, emphasizing charitable good works, lack of a record and so on.
Last week, Taubman, 78, was sentenced to a year and a day in jail, a sentence that was reduced in deference to his age, health and charitable good works.
Help Wounded Heroes figured in one exchange at that Jan . 17hearing between Chapin and U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., who was trying to figure out its nature and whether its expenditures were overhead or charitable good works.
Many balk at the traditional model of doing charitable good only when you have reached a certain level of economic wealth or solely in your free time.
