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...WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, the kids sing Christian songs, discuss Scripture and work to memorize the week's Bible verse, John 15: 5 ("I am the vine and you are the branches"). Hours pass. As night falls, the group enjoys one last mass hug and finally leaves its makeshift chapel--room 133 of Patrick Henry High School. Yes, a public high school. If you are between ages 25 and 45, your school days were not like this. In 1963 the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling banning compulsory prayer in public schools. After that, any worship on school premises...
Suddenly, after the puzzling signals began to billow [from the Sistine Chapel chimney], the Vatican's ranking Cardinal-deacon in the Sacred College, appeared at the Window of the Benediction in St. Peter's Basilica. His Latin words boomed out over loudspeakers: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!" (I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope!) "He is the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Cardinal Albino Luciani, who has taken the name of John Paul the First...
...conflict between the University and the Swedenborgians is a little more complex. The parishioners are concerned that the construction of the new Harvard office building will dwarf their small chapel and keep light from streaming through their stained glass windows (Harvard denies that the structure will be so intimidating). Of course, there's nothing new in the idea of the commercial and secular overpowering the sacred; a look at Manhattan shows us any number of churches dwarfed by skyscrapers, and even on Fifth Avenue, it's not clear that St. Patrick's Cathedral is any taller than Bergdorf Goodman. Well...
...concern. Reaching out has been as much a motive as reaching up. They have been able to move horizontally--if not vertically--into the Cambridge community in a number of ways that are less religious but more social, educational and political. Within a mile's radius of the Swedenborg Chapel, we can find a history of such outreach that more than compensates for any physical restrictions. Consider the following three examples...
...churches are either boxed in by hotels (the Sheraton Commander borders one side of the First Church property) or apartment buildings and parking areas (which surround Holy Trinity), yet their influence extends far beyond Sunday morning services and the physical limits placed upon their structures. Likewise, the tiny Swedenborg Chapel on the corner of Kirkland and Quincy streets and its founder have influenced the Harvard community. Henry James, Sr. 'was an avid reader of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Swedish theologian who was the inspiration for the Church of the New Jerusalem. Henry in turn influenced his eldest...