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...Christie's decision to join the Church of England put him decidedly outside the mainstream. The Church's membership has dwindled dramatically over the past few decades, and Christie says he realizes that the days when vicars were automatically viewed as respected community figures are long gone. "Being a clergyman doesn't have much moral authority these days," he says. And as a vicar, he says he sometimes struggles to balance demands for what people ask him to do with what he feels is right. "We're living in a very consumerist society, and the church must compete...
...John Harvard—now serves as the name of our athletic teams and, by extension, the nickname of the entire student body. It should come as no surprise that there has been little enthusiasm for a mascot that adds nothing to the school’s aura. Clergyman John Harvard is already aptly honored by the name of this institution; to dub our athletic squads (and our students in general) the Harvard John Harvards would be obtuse. But the impotence of the John Harvard mascot need not deprive us of the energy and enthusiasm that a good mascot...
...belonged to the extremist, virulently anti-Shi'ite Salafi sect were gunned down just outside the neighborhood. The family sought retribution. On a subsequent evening, say witnesses, a mob of 15 gunmen, all relatives and friends of the three dead brothers, surrounded the house of popular Shi'ite clergyman Sheik Razzaq. A frail man in his 50s with a white skullcap and a ready smile, Razzaq had tried to stem the tide of sectarian hatred in the neighborhood, even accepting both Sunni and Shi'ite children into his Koran study classes. Sunni extremists found his message of tolerance threatening...
...months the clergyman has alluded in general terms to an immense volunteer effort called the PEACE plan, aimed at transforming 400,000 churches in 47 nations into centers to nurse, feed and educate the poor and even turn them into entrepreneurs. Its details remain unknown, but its Rwandan element seems to have outrun the rest. Warren says he was "looking for a small country where we could actually work on a national model," and Kagame, impressed by The Purpose-Driven Life, volunteered Rwanda in March. In July Warren and 48 other American Evangelicals, who have backgrounds in areas like health...
...this slippery slide from "reason" to science, Sch?nborn is a direct descendant of the early 17th century Dutch clergyman and astronomer David Fabricius, who could not accept Johannes Kepler's discovery of elliptical planetary orbits. Why? Because the circle is so pure and perfect that reason must reject anything less. "With your ellipse," Fabricius wrote Kepler, "you abolish the circularity and uniformity of the motions, which appears to me increasingly absurd the more profoundly I think about it." No matter that, using Tycho Brahe's most exhaustive astronomical observations in history, Kepler had empirically demonstrated that the planets orbit elliptically...