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...HRES from former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who was apparently concerned that such a business would not break into an environment in which, seemingly, attracts only banks and national chains. For the last year and half, HRES has leased the vacant space at the corner of Brattle and Church streets at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars until they could find a grocer to occupy it. This sort of “surgical intervention” as James W. Gray, associate vice president of HRES, termed it could not simply be left up to other landlords. Although HRES...
...bombing of16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killed four little girls and galvanized the civil rights movement. If not for pastor John Cross Jr., who dug through rubble to discover the victims after hearing the explosion, it could easily have sparked further immediate violence. Cross, who hadmade his church a center for the movement, calmed angry protesters and officiated before 8,000 at a funeral for three of the girls, during which Martin Luther KingJr. delivered the eulogy. Cross was forever haunted, saying recently that "hardly a day passes I don't think about...
...Sunday mornings, most parents who don't believe in the Christian God, or any god at all, are probably making brunch or cheering at their kids' soccer game, or running errands or, with luck, sleeping in. Without religion, there's no need for church, right...
Maybe. But some nonbelievers are beginning to think they might need something for their children. "When you have kids," says Julie Willey, a design engineer, "you start to notice that your co-workers or friends have church groups to help teach their kids values and to be able to lean on." So every week, Willey, who was raised Buddhist and says she has never believed in God, and her husband pack their four kids into their blue minivan and head to the Humanist Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif., for atheist Sunday school...
...nurturing environment. That's why Kitty, a nonbeliever who didn't want her last name used to protect her kids' privacy, brings them to Bishop's class each week. After Jonathan, 13, and Hana, 11, were born, Kitty says she felt socially isolated and even tried taking them to church. But they're all much more comfortable having rational discussions at the Humanist center. "I'm a person that doesn't believe in myths," Hana says. "I'd rather stick to the evidence...