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...response to Randy A. Karger's piece in the Opinion section of the Crimson (Feb. 3). My first objection to this piece is quite simple. There is no need to write such a chastising piece, nor to put the subtitle "Council Means to Push the Homosexual Lifestyle on Christendom." All the Undergraduate Council did was pass a resolution that said that it, as a body, supported the rights of homosexual couples to have "same-sex blessing ceremonies" in Memorial Church. This is certainly not binding on the administrative board of Memorial Church--that was quite acknowledged in the discussion...
...blessing ceremonies but also stop discriminating against non-Christian religions and Jewish and Muslim services as well. In passing this resolution, it is doubtful that the council meant so much to urge enforcement of Harvard's nondiscrimination policy. It meant to urge acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle within Christendom...
Armstrong's step-by-step march down the years shows how a succession of spiritual decisions and political circumstances passed the city from faith to faith. The rise of Greco-Roman power opened the way for the followers of Jesus to remake Jerusalem into Christendom's holiest place, a development she regards with little sympathy. Christians were taught to worship God's presence in Jesus rather than a specific place, she says; only in the 4th century with the archaeologically suspect "discovery" of Christ's tomb within Jerusalem's walls did the church project ideas of the divine onto...
While traditional churches treat miracles gingerly, it is surely no coincidence that the fastest-growing movement in Christendom places miracles squarely at the center of worship. The growth rate of the "postdenominational" churches--the Charismatics and Pentecostals--now surpasses that of the Southern Baptists. Loosely structured, informal, led by powerful "apostles," these churches reject rigid hierarchies and sedate theology. "People don't come to listen," explains Peter Wagner, a professor of church growth at Fuller Theological Seminary, "They come to do." The miracles take many forms: besides healing, there are members who have visions, or speak in tongues, or collapse...
Such speculations inspire fury and passionate denunciation among scholars and believers from the center and right wings of Christendom. To them, the Resurrection, is not just a story about comfort, or power, or hope. It represents the promise that death can be defeated, that hatred cannot ultimately prevail. "If I were an enemy of Christianity, I'd aim right at the Resurrection, because that's the heart of Christianity," the Rev. Billy Graham told Time last week. Graham rejects the idea that Jesus rose only as a spirit. "I believe he rose bodily. Otherwise you'd have to throw...