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What, indeed? University of California at Santa Barbara professor Jeffrey Burton Russell, author of the upcoming A History of Heaven (Princeton University Press), says, "I think [clerics] want to stay off the subject because they feel they're going to have to climb a wall of popular skepticism." A spokesman for the United Methodist Publishing House is reluctant to comment at all about heaven, explaining that the subject is "controversial." A brother in faith, the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, whose Foundry Methodist Church is up the street from the White House, explains bluntly, "I'm not interested in speculating...
...liberal congregations, heaven is found mostly in hymns, preserved like a bug in amber. There are still some churches where one can find a robust heavenly vision in the late 1990s--among Southern Baptists, and African-American denominations as a whole. But most late-20th century American Christians, observes Jeffrey Burton Russell, have a better grasp of heaven's cliches than of its allures. "It's this place where you've got wings, you stand on a cloud, and if the concept is more sophisticated, where you see God and you sing hymns. It's a boring place...
...think a better thing for them to concentrate on would be to address the wider cultural situations which have women taking less rigorous courses than men throughout their school career," College Board spokesperson Jeffrey Penn said yesterday. "It's very easy to criticize the instrument that reflects the inequity rather than addressing the inequity in the broader society...
...There does tend to be discrimination on the part of landlords," says Jeffrey Chatlos, a staff attorney at the Health Law Institute of the Justice Research Center (JRI), an organization devoted to the legal and mental care of HIV-positive individuals in the Boston area...
Hall's markedly less daring return to TV came about as the result of a phone call from Jeffrey Katzenberg, one-third of the power triumvirate (along with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen) at the DreamWorks studio. Katzenberg, who, without a hint of irony in his voice, refers to Hall as a "national treasure," decided to lure the comic back to TV after catching his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in November 1995. The mogul's first step was to dissuade Hall from doing a film he had conceived in which the comic would have starred...