Word: churchful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last Friday, a gathering of students, alumni, and guests assembled in Memorial Church to hear Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, give the inaugural “Robert Coles ‘Call of Service’” Lecture. The event was the kick-off to the first Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Alumni Weekend. PBHA President Angelico N. A. Razon ’08 said the alumni weekend and Coles lecture will become annual events. In her lecture, Edelman shared statistics regarding the condition of children in America, including...
...think that most of fiction is autobiographical,” Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk reflected before a packed Memorial Church audience last Friday night, exactly one year to the date of his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. “The art of the novel is that in writing, you’re talking about yourself while making people believe you’re talking about herself, himself.” During the Harvard Book Store event, Pamuk used excerpts from “Other Colors,” a new collection of “essays...
...viewers might actually appreciate the music once they get past the initial “Coooool!” The band’s usual hurdy-gurdies, French horns, and mandolins have all been left at home. This song, like the rest of the album, was recorded in a church and the setting seems to have rubbed off on its eerie apocalyptic and religious lyrics. Three years went by between the band’s two discs, and maybe it shouldn’t come as such a surprise that people might have trouble relating to impersonal lyrics such...
...notable no-show at a September ceremony to mark 20 years since John Paul II had hosted a groundbreaking gathering of world religious leaders in Assisi, Italy. Some viewed the Pope's absence as a slap to those working for inter-faith dialogue, both inside and outside the Catholic Church. On Sunday, however, Benedict will be center stage at the most lavish, and well-attended, inter-religious ceremony of his papacy, organized by the same Sant'Egidio community that helped launch Assisi. What has changed? Why is Benedict marking 21 years since "the spirit of Assisi" was uncorked, after skipping...
...expanded use of the old-rite Latin Mass, which contains a Good Friday prayer that offends some Jews. A few days later, the Vatican's doctrinal office reiterated Benedict's stance - first stated when he was cardinal - that non-Catholic denominations of Christianity, excepting the Orthodox, are not true Churches because they cannot trace their hierachies back to the apostles. (The Orthodox, however, are a reduced Church because they do not recognize the primacy of the Apostle Peter's successor, the Pope.) It is as clear as ever that Benedict will not mince words in laying out his vision...