RD Laing, "half-Lucifer, half-Christ", filled her full of LSD and then "sent me packing with an opened scream".
The inside of the cover has a circular enamel medallion with worked gold borders, showing a half-length Christ making a blessing gesture and holding a chalice with a host inside.
At Harding University in Arkansas, which like Abilene Christian is affiliated with the Churches of Christ, half a dozen current and former students posted an online magazine in early March featuring personal accounts of the travails of gay students.
"It was almost fetishistic". After the loved one had actually passed, women were expected to follow a complex code of mourning that lasted for two and a half years, said Christ.
After Honey unveiled his prize wall for us half decorated with tributes to Jesus Christ, half with rooster memorabilia and trophies we spent the afternoon surveying his chickens to see if there were any worthy of purchase.
Somehow, dazzled by the genuine magnificence of the Backstreet Boys' downbeat comeback single Incomplete (the music video for which featured the Boys walking away from a variety of near-death experiences; brilliant!), I decided that the just-OK accompanying album was worthy of a four-and-a-half star review – Christ, it might actually have been five.
The contours of a twisted, punctured and morbidly beautiful half-naked crucified Christ by the Spanish baroque painter Alonso Cano can be traced in Bacon's spectral crucifixion for a secular society, or the warped flesh of his hunched animal nudes.
Eventually the music drew to a merciful close and a pastor came out and couched his demands for donations, or "demonstrations of faith", in some of that half-assed, "Jesus Christ is a pretty cool cat" humour that all Bro-Christians (Anglicans) use to charm and disarm anybody stupid enough to listen to them.
In countries with a substantial Christian presence, at least half the Christians thought Jesus Christ would return in their lifetime.
"Sometimes, I do watch our show and think, 'Christ, to half the country this must look like a total mystery,'" says Buxton.
On the other hand, he finds the play saturated with the book of Revelation, and sees the half-brothers Edmund and Edgar as Christ and Lucifer.
