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...small circle of believers. He prays with Chelsea at her bedtime on the nights when he is home, and on past occasions when he and Hillary could not get to church, the family held its own devotional. He has said that in recent years, he and Hillary, a devout Methodist who carried Scriptures on the campaign trail, have had increasingly long conversations about how to live an honorable life and the nature of life after death. On the day after Christmas, at a gathering in Staley's home of Little Rock preachers, Clinton let on that he harbored some pastoral...
...profile of the typical terrorist bomber. Ayyad's relatives depict the chemical engineer as a devout Muslim who had achieved the American Dream since immigrating from Kuwait eight years ago. In 1991 he became a naturalized citizen, earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and began work at AlliedSignal. A year later, his mother arranged for him to marry a Middle Eastern woman...
...theological aspects of marine biology may not be immediately apparent to most people. To someone with a devout belief in God, however, the assertion that life "was not designed in a purposeful way" is a rejection of a universal religious truth. Saying that evolutionary history was "blind" and unplanned" contradicts one of the most fundamental elements of faith: the existence of an omnipotent Creator...
Opposing the creationists is a group of devout, mostly Protestant scientists who are also conservative but willing to consider evidence for evolution. They are organized into the American Scientific Affiliation, based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which counts nearly 1,000 Ph.D.s among its members. The A.S.A. has distributed 100,000 copies of a booklet urging schoolteachers to be aware of the unanswered scientific questions about Darwinism and to avoid slipping in the unwarranted assumption that evolution in effect displaces God. A.S.A. executive director Robert Herrmann, a biochemist, advises fellow Bible believers to remain open to "evolution as the process the Creator...
However, the women's rights crusade increasingly is enmeshed with divisive projects of social, moral and theological reconstruction. Many devout Christians, multitudes of women among them, cling ever more fervently to the old ways when all that is hallowed seems in danger of eroding. That perhaps explains why conservative churches that defiantly oppose the ascent of women are still thriving. In order to succeed in the long term, the new Christian feminism must not only claim power and authority for women but also demonstrate that gender equality enhances the church's spiritual and moral strength...