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Kluger maintains that "you live longer if you go to church." The reason for this might well be that church attenders on average come from more fortunate economic groups. One also needs to know the ethnicity of any grouping selected for research. Do the 82% of black people who say they are church members live longer than people in other ethnic groups who do not go to church? Richard Westall, WALTON-ON-THAMES, ENGLAND...
...Lent, I gave up going to church. It’s been a sacrifice. Now, when Sunday rolls around, I no longer feel the delightful pangs of guilt that used to follow me from meeting to meeting. In the company of friends who showed up last Wednesday at dinner with dark smudges on their foreheads, I had to slink around shamefacedly, muttering something about how I’d thought the service was at 4:30. But I wasn’t alone. The response of most of my friends when I posed the question “What...
...imagine the sour state we received Mrs. Lewis in when she came bobbing down the steps of the church screaming, “Happy Easter, Mr. Moore! And Winnie! Our Savior is risen!”“He sure is,” Daddy said. He popped from the buggy, happy to get away from me. So the reverend’s wife began her prattle and I fell back against the seat. Ezekiel must have heard my mighty exhale from up front. His head turned in profile as he said...
Last night's "Witness" event in Memorial Church--meant to celebrate the intersection of the arts, humanities, and human rights--featured Toni Morrison reading from her 2008 novel, A Mercy. But Princeton's Nobel Laureate didn't join in the dancing (more on that after the jump.) Morrison, who recently turned 78, read from her wheelchair...
Location: Memorial Church Basement, the Yard