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When TIME asked, "Is belief in Jesus the only way to get to heaven?", Jefferts Schori said, "For us to assume that God could not act in other ways is ... putting God in an awfully small box." She implied that there are several roads to God. But faith is not cherry picking. The Presiding Bishop is in the wrong profession...
...view that it was "intolerable" to meddle with a woman's "right to control her own body," wrote his biographer, John C. Jeffries, Jr., derived not so much from his view of the law as a belief that forcing women to have unwanted children was costly for the kids, as well as the mothers. Various sources shaped his thinking, said Jeffries, but one was particularly persuasive: Molly, "the most outspoken" of Powell's three daughters...
...Sarah M. Allen, a professor at Brigham Young University who has researched this family dynamic. It turns out that both men and women share some of the blame. According to Allen and her co-researcher, Alan J. Hawkins, moms turn into gatekeepers when they secretly hold a core belief that women are simply better nurturers. They agree with the principle that men should be equals at home, but they don't actually believe men can do it as well...
Rusty Yates denies contributing to her mania and maintains the strongest belief that she is innocent, that insanity led her to kill. "Andrea is a victim here. She has lived in a different world for weeks and weeks, months and months," Rusty says. "She is waking up, and this is her life now. Think of the trauma she has been through. What a cruel thing to do. Where's the compassion...
...accepted, finally, by Israel's old warrior Ariel Sharon, although he ultimately lost faith in negotiations and adopted a policy of unilateral "disengagement" from the Palestinians. As Sharon's heir and successor, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also knows that one day a Palestinian state will come. The belief is nearly universal. "We know we can't wind this up with guns and tanks," Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told TIME. "The final solution has to be done diplomatically...