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...DIED. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR., 81, charismatic, controversial civil-rights agitator who shot to national fame in the late 1960s as the scooter-riding, antiwar chaplain of Yale University; in Strafford, Vermont. The United Church of Christ minister, known for having been arrested in the South during civil-rights protests in the early '60s, rankled Washington politicians with his voluble attacks on the Vietnam War. In 1968, he was convicted with Dr. Benjamin Spock for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion, after Coffin delivered to the Justice Department more than 100 draft cards they had collected at antiwar rallies. (The conviction...
...recesses of the church are home to another sort of faith, one that millions of Americans subscribe to. In a windowless basement office lined with books like “Who’s Who in Hell,” Gregory H. Epstein, Harvard’s Humanist Chaplain, presides over his own sort of ministry—one that doesn’t include the “G” word. “As a humanist, I view God as maybe the world’s most influential and important literary character,” Epstein says...
...than the total before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but officials, who concede that year-long deployments can strain marriages, are working on the issue. The Army has raised funding to $3.6 million a year for initiatives to help troops deal with the stresses, and its "family life" chaplains will expand two programs: "Pick a Partner"?troops call it "How Not to Marry a Jerk"?targets single soldiers, while another aims at couples with teens. Chaplain (Major) Robert Nay says his mission is clear: "If I help the soldiers with their personal lives, it will help them...
...pair are on leave this academic year. Most professors, however, were not invited to the reception of roughly 150 guests. The wedding at Elmwood was an even smaller affair, with no more than 40 of the couple’s relatives and closest friends. Rabbi Norman Janis, a chaplain at the Harvard Hillel Foundation, presided over the ceremony. Summers and New are both Jewish. The bride and groom were driven to the Fogg in the president’s trademark Lincoln Town Car, its “1636” vanity license plates evoking the founding of Harvard College. Their...
...couple should decide to have one religion, to transmit one to their children, otherwise [the children will] feel divided, and it won’t be easy for them to form an identity,” says Jonathan Hernandez ’09, who is Catholic.Catholic Students Association Chaplain Faye Darnall agrees that children brought up with two conflicting religious traditions may not feel truly connected to either of them.But Darnall says that choosing the faith of one parent can pose its own difficulties.“It’s a loss to not raise your children in your...