Word: faithful
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...Harvard College Interfaith Council organized this culinary evening as the Kickoff Festival for its celebration of the first-ever National Interfaith Awareness Week during mid-April. By collaborating with 12 religious groups and the Harvard Secular Society, the Council works to foster interfaith dialogue among the more than 20 faith-based organizations on campus. A COUNCIL IS BORNThe Interfaith Council was officially established in 2004 as a purely discussion-based group, but didn’t initially generate much enthusiasm, according to current council chair Zeba A. Syed ’09.Originally there were three students on the executive board...
...change? It's not that the past four Presidents were simply more pious than their predecessors. Few would doubt the honest faith of Dwight Eisenhower, or Johnson, or Carter. It's that "God bless America," true to its presidential birth on that April evening in 1973, has grown to be politically expedient. The phrase is a simple way for Presidents and politicians of all stripes to pass the God and Country test; to sate the appetites of those in the public and press corps who want assurance that this person is a real, God-fearing American. It's the verbal...
...turmoil and debates about racial identity. He grew up in Philadelphia, the son and grandson of preachers. He enrolled at Virginia Union University, a historically black college in Richmond, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In the South, for the first time he saw Christians "who professed faith in Jesus Christ and who believed in segregation, and saw nothing wrong with lynching, saw nothing wrong with Negroes staying in their place," he told Bill Moyers in a PBS interview last week. That experience moved him to leave college for a six-year military tour - first with the Marines...
...minded and less fearful. Fear is the basis of all these shortcomings in human behavior. So that's the one thing that we're trying to fight off. Young people are more open minded and fearless and will listen and they want change. He's the one that puts faith in politics, no matter how religious any other candidate could be. He's the one that puts hope, young people's aspirations; they use imagination and vision differently from adults, who are kind of stagnant when it comes to that subject. So, that's what Obama is, he's that...
...Most of them, it turns out, are Americans who weren't even born into Hasidic families. (They call themselves bal-chuva- "those who return" to the faith.) Emboldened by drink and by their warmth, I take the opportunity to ask the questions I'd always wanted to ask about Hasidism: What is it like? Why the clothes? I don't quite understand some of the more thoughtful answers about the second coming of Moses and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. But I know Harry Potter, even if I never saw its Jewish significance...