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...books, Obama says he might not have become a Christian - his mother was a skeptical secularist and his absent father an atheist - if not for the special character of the black church. "Out of necessity, the black church had to minister to the whole person. Out of necessity, the black church rarely had the luxury of separating individual salvation from collective salvation," he writes in The Audacity of Hope. It also matched his intellectual curiosity. "Perhaps it was out of this ... grounding of faith in struggle that the historically black church offered me a second insight: that faith doesn...
...While even the most inveterate atheist could no doubt appreciate the adhan for its cultural value—and the warm, oriental Eurus it breathed through the Yard, liberating, if even for only a moment, a campus oppressed by vestiges of a Western and patriarchal past...
...evolve from writing about vampires to writing about the life of Jesus? -Tonya Solomon Flushing, Mich.It was a personal conversion. After 38 years of being an atheist, faith came back to me. I had to stop writing about vampires, because they had been a metaphor for lost souls. Instead, I made up my mind to concentrate on Jesus Christ...
...talking about queerness by itself,” says Donahue of BGLTSA’s recent move toward hosting hybrid events aimed at educating populations who may not be initially receptive to homosexuality. “It’s a lot different growing up gay in a liberal, atheist family in Cambridge than it is in a Hispanic, Catholic family in Mexico.”Lam, the Coalition’s treasurer, is half Chinese, and says that students who have made friends with people in generally unreceptive ethnic groups might feel conflicted joining the gay community...
...more book." Those are the words Anne Rice fans have been dying to hear about the Vampire Chronicles ever since her shocking - and dismaying to many of his followers - turn to religious writing. Long seen as a committed atheist, four years ago the best-selling author drove a stake through the hearts of her followers when she vowed to abandon her sinister stories and instead write only of the Lord...