Word: christiane
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...Communist student group required leaders of the group to subscribe to the ideals of the Communist Manifesto, we probably wouldn’t accuse the Harvard Communists of discrimination. And yet, because the constitution of the Asian American Christian Fellowship’s (AACF) parent organization—the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF)—requires that officers “subscribe without reserve” to articles of Christian faith, the Undergraduate Council (UC) deems the AACF a discriminatory group. This is at best an error in consistency and at worst a manifestation of intolerance towards Christians...
...hasn’t been pinched, cut, filed, painted, sloughed, blown dry, or moisturized. [...] Because I don’t look a thing like Mia Thermopolis. Mia Thermopolis never had fingernails. Mia Thermopolis never had blond highlights. Mia Thermopolis never wore makeup or Gucci shoes or Chanel skirts or Christian Dior bras, which by the way don’t even come in 32A, which is my size. I don’t even know who I am anymore. It certainly isn’t Mia Thermopolis. She’s turning me into someone else...
...full person simply by having or by achieving, but by giving. Still, the act of faith can only be a free personal act. A faith that's imposed would not be a proper act of faith. And you'd be deceiving yourself to think there can be an imposed Christianity in today's world. Is that why church attendance has dropped? We still have the structures of managing mass Catholicism but that's not the reality anymore. I find people are sensitive to a religious message that's in dialogue with the way they're thinking. If I meet with...
...basis of this restriction, the UC has occasionally denied funding to officially recognized Harvard student organizations, most notably the Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF), which requires its officers to be Christians, and single-sex a cappella singing groups, which require their members to be of a particular sex. Even though these organizations have passed muster with University Hall’s Committee on College Life (CCL), which vets student groups for official College recognition, the UC has sometimes insisted that they not be funded because of the discrimination written into their constitutions...
Khoury also injects as much early Christian history as possible, name-dropping the Gnostic gospels discovered at Nag Hammadi every couple of pages...