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...socialist. Gomes doesn’t write in a vacuum, however, and he includes numerous mentions of current socio-political situations—the war in Iraq, Sept. 11, homophobia, and race relations—to convey how Jesus’s teachings apply to the modern world.Yet where Gomes??s book falls short is not in the message it presents, but in the way it presents it. Gomes is good about writing accessibly, but for those with more biblical knowledge, the book can get dry after the first 100 pages or so. Gomes??s tone...
...Will and Grace,’ things are better, things are great—to go see this movie and understand that there’s still a big battle to be fought,” he said.Homosexuality and religion has been the subject of many of Gomes?? works since 1991. “I became interested in it because I am a gay person and I’ve had to deal with relationships between homosexuality and the Christian faith for a very long time,” he said. “So the Bible Tells...
...religious and moral ideas, ”reminding us that having as much of the goods of the world as we want is not as important as contributing to society and doing something greater than our individual selves,” Sears said. A professor at the Divinity School, Gomes??who was not available for comment yesterday because he was in New York for the ceremony—has worked in Memorial Church since 1970 and has written several books on applying biblical teachings to our daily lives. “He has made religion a part...
After all, I could be pontificating about the dirty cop bust in Boston the other day, or the protests of Boston’s biotechnology conference being staged by radical groups. I could have even scrutinized Peter J. Gomes?? deliciously supercilious photograph—replete with puffed chest, disdainful scowl, and gleaming white pocket square—in the recent New York Times article, “Matters of Faith Find a New Prominence on Campus.” Although in light of the proposed, anti-bullying legislation being debated in the Massachusetts State House, perhaps...
Controversial, outspoken, and always his own man, Summers was—in the words of Gomes??“a throwback to an earlier era.” Vintage style, however, isn’t always to the tastes of students and faculty...