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Even doctors who aren't familiar with Kristeller's script are finding it easier to combine spiritual care and medical care. HealthCare Chaplaincy is an organization of Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Zen Buddhist board-certified chaplains affiliated with more than a dozen hospitals and clinics in the New York City area. The group routinely provides pastoral care to patients as part of the total package of treatment. The chaplains, like doctors, have a caseload of patients they visit on their rounds, taking what amounts to a spiritual history and either offering counseling on their own or referring patients to others...
During the question-and-answer period of yesterday’s meeting, professor of Christian morals Peter J. Gomes approached the podium, righting himself against the wall as he stumbled a little...
...local advertising company found out what would be on the sign. "Once we sent one advertising group our artwork for the sign, [the firm] cut off all communications with us," Gaylor says, adding that a company representative told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that he was a Christian and would not take money for any sign that supported Darwin or his birthday. In the end, the FFRF purchased a billboard on the outskirts of town from a company not based in Dayton...
...overwhelmingly Christian and conservative small town less than an hour's drive north of Chattanooga, Dayton landed the Scopes trial in 1925 after the American Civil Liberties Union announced a search for a teacher willing to challenge a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. Town leaders, eager to boost the local economy with the media attention a trial would bring, came up with a 24-year-old science teacher named John Thomas Scopes, who was willing to teach Darwinist theory instead of creationism...
Instead, at the end of the month, the nearby Bryan College (founded in 1930 and named for the victor of the Scopes trial) will be holding a symposium called "War and Peace: 150 Years of Christian Encounters with Darwin." The symposium will explore how Darwin's On the Origin of Species challenged creationist views. Retired professor Dick Cornelius says the town is committed to hearing all sides of an argument, "even if it doesn't favor our position." The motto of Bryan College is "Christ above...