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Imagine Harvard inviting David Duke to deliver a lecture on African-American history, or Fred Phelps lecturing on gay rights, or Khalid Mohammed delivering a Hillel-funded lecture on the virtues of Judaism. Inconceivable, right? You might be surprised, however, to know that a lecture will be delivered at Memorial Church next week that will likely be just as bad as the above hypotheticals. I refer to the William Belden Noble Lecture, which this year is being given by retired Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong...
...Nation of Islam hothead, a symbol of Bush as well. In a Fox News interview, Bush was asked if he regarded the Nation of Islam as a "faith-based institution." "I think it is," he replied. "I think it's based upon some universal principles." Since Farrakhan has called Judaism "a gutter religion," the Bush campaign backed away from that last week, saying Bush thought the question referred to the Muslim religion...
...past three decades. In the early 1970s, women streamed into the seminaries at the same time they were marching into other white-collar professions. Many, notably the Episcopalians, did so literally on faith, since their denominations barred female ministers. Today half the Christian branches, plus Reform and Conservative Judaism, ordain women. (Islam does not allow female immams.) The United Methodists count 7,039 female ministers (out of 44,536 total). In 1999 the small Unitarian Universalist Association recorded a landmark: a ministry that is more than 50% female. Not every denomination will pack so many X chromosomes into the pulpit...
...stolen from the altar of a small Episcopal church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The theft makes the papers and gives the rector, Father Thomas Pemberton, his 15 minutes of fame. Eventually, it turns up in an odd place: the roof of the Synagogue of Evolutionary Judaism on the Upper West Side. How did it get there...
They're also members of Hillel's Men's Group, a student organization that seeks to bring Jewish men together to "explore Judaism and gender-related issues...