Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WORCESTER--It was a match that reaffirmed one's faith in the law of averages...
...comparison was apt. The brutal assault came at a time when the U.S. is buzzing with a dissonant debate over sexual orientation. It is a controversy fueled by reports of increased violence against homosexuals and a new campaign by religious conservatives touting the power of faith to overcome what they proclaim to be a sinful sensuality. The Wyoming attack occurred days shy of National Coming Out Day, which was heralded not only by gay organizations but also by the Center for Reclaiming America as it launched a new series of TV ads avowing that conversion to Christianity can reverse even...
...next alternative: the Fox, where a fewmembers are found generally lounging around. It isperhaps the only point in the evening when thegroup's faith in the final club scene is shaken:to the disappointment of all, the bar oddly lacksits perennial keg. Though unsatisfied, Swanson andJohnson eventually decide to call it a night andbegin their walk back to the Quad...
...thee behind me, Derrida! Skeptical postmordernists may have reduced the certainties of Western intellectual life to a pile of gaudy plastic tchotchkes, but Pope John Paul II is fighting back. The pontiff on Thursday issued a 150-page papal encyclical urging a faith-centered approach to reason and challenging "doctrines which tend to devalue even the truths which had been judged certain...
...More remarkable than what he said is the fact that the pontiff chose to engage with the prevailing secular intellectual currents. "This pope cares about ideas," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "He is an intellecutal along with being a mystic, and since postmodernism challenges the harmony between faith and reason, he feels compelled to engage with it." Don't expect him to bump any French metatheorists off Comp Lit reading lists, but rare is the pontiff who displays an awareness of the prevailing wisdom in college-coffee-bar philosophy...