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Aboard our future-scooters, our tour starts at Harvard’s fourth pre-professional school, the Divinity School. Sure there are plenty of trust falls, but the Div school isn’t your garden variety bible camp. The real meat of the program lies in its labs, where...
This would not be so daunting a task. The Gideons International currently hands out 59 million scriptures a year to hotels, prisons, schools and hospitals around the world. A similar effort to distribute the Constitution, a document accessible to Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and atheists—not just Christiansâ?...
A 1997 Fodor’s survey found that only 23 percent of travelers read the Gideons Bible in hotel rooms. It is time to supplement the Bible with another canonical text: the United States Constitution. Americans should form a non-profit organization based on the Gideons model to raise...
An Indiana school district was charged with such a violation by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit because the schools permitted the distribution of literature by Gideon Bible representatives as well as by representatives of the Boy Scouts and the 4-H Club. The school officials...
How does PLAP decide which problems to litigate? Gideons says that cases which raise important issues such as the First Amendment and which don't involve complex factual matters are best. That's because one difficulty in talking with inmates is telling fact from fiction, says Katherine Kennedy '82, a...