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...shoos away critics who say social commentary, or even art, shouldn't be soiled by the job of selling products. "Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. And is it not an advertisement for the Church?" he says. "If Frank Gehry builds a new headquarters for Coca-Cola, no one accuses him of trying to sell soda. He's trying to build the best building he can. And I'm trying to make the best image...
...Joseph in the Bible are unmediated religious experience, and both Judaism and Christianity preserved mystical dream traditions. But direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled...
...that makes it illegal for doctors to reveal anything about their patients, not even their names; you are forbidden, for example, from having names written on charts visible to other patients. The goal, I guess, is to avoid situations like: "Hey, Mom, did you know that lady from church has syphilis?" Of course, we couldn't put a bag over Johnny's head, and he wouldn't have wanted that. He seemed happy for everyone to know him. The slow, cheerful deliberateness with which he acknowledged each of his new admirers shone warmly, calming the nervous air of my stressed...
...always wanted to start a book with, ‘Something is alive and well,’” author Stephen King said at Memorial Church on Tuesday. However, he was unable to offer such a prognosis for the medium being discussed that evening. “The short story is alive, but it isn’t what I’d call well.” King, the editor of “The Best American Short Stories 2007,” was joined at the Harvard Book Store event by Heidi Pitlor, the series editor...
...DOLLARS AT WORK Giving new meaning to the term Bible study, Alabama has become the first state to approve a state-funded textbook for nondevotional Bible instruction. The state school board recently included The Bible and Its Influence (a text some civil libertarians actually applaud for steering clear of church-state violation) on its approved list of texts. The book could be in Alabama schools starting August...