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...After a few years of wandering in Asia, Lee's family settled in Pennsylvania in 1964, and his father became a Presbyterian minister. Behind My Eyes is steeped in Lee's religious upbringing. "I doodled in the church bulletin on Sundays/ while my father offered the twenty-minute Pastor's Prayer," he recalls in "Cuckoo on the Witness Stand." Elsewhere in the poem, he recounts that "I sang in a church choir during one war/ American TV made famous." Lee also likens his own poetry to "a mission," but he's no firebrand proselytizer. His tone throughout this collection...
Americans should not fear the rise of developing nations, said Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, at an event sponsored by the Harvard Book Store Thursday evening. The discussion, held at the First Parish Church, featured questions by history professor Niall C. Ferguson and focused on what Zakaria described as the “rise of the rest,” particularly China and India. Zakaria—whose new book “The Post-American World” was released this month—said that the modernization of developing countries could actually benefit the U.S. Zakaria...
...conviction, carolers sang Joy to the World outside Belfast's city hall, where a Union Jack hung limply from its pole and a signboard listed the latest number of military and civilian deaths?1,140 since 1969. Even the seasonal slogan jointly adopted by Ulster's Catholic and Protestant church leaders had a desperate quality about it: "For God's sake, let peace begin in our land this Christmas time...
...always, Christmas services will subtly reflect a seemingly irreconcilable dispute between two inimical bodies of partisan Christians: Christ the Catholic will be honored in one church, Christ the Protestant in another. As both sides hymn Christian peace, they are also hesitant and fearful about the prospect of Christian war. For if the truce does not hold and violence erupts on a large enough scale, it will be a religious war as well as a political one, a throwback to the bloody Catholic-Protestant battles that followed the Reformation...
...flee Obama in Pennsylvania - the sort of people who would run out and buy a hybrid before they'd support a reduction in the gasoline tax - decided to vote their faith that Obama was running an honorable campaign rather than their fear that his membership in Jeremiah Wright's church would render him radioactive...