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...recommended list for children. Ministers preach sermons likening Harry's running through the wall of Platform 934 to a leap of faith. "We're missing something if we can't tell stories from the Bible as compelling as Harry Potter," says John Fleming, minister of First United Methodist in Henrietta, Texas. Many have found embedded in the books all kinds of biblical imagery. "If you read these books carefully, they are not only not evil, they are profound stories about good, and they are deeply religious," argues Baylor University philosophy professor Scott Moore, who started by reading the books...
...attends the 1968 Republican Convention as a Rockefeller volunteer and is astonished by the opulence of the Fontainebleu Hotel; she orders room service, and "I can still see the giant fresh peach that came wrapped in a napkin." In her way, Hillary Rodham--the awkward Midwestern grind, the Methodist too-gooder--is as much of an outsider as Bill Clinton. Her swoon is inevitable, her willful blindness to his flaws almost understandable. Almost...
...feel uncomfortable when exercising his right to vote. But Rob Meltzer, an observant Jew from Framingham, Massachusetts, does feel uncomfortable. He recently filed a federal civil suit against the town for “impinging upon constitutional rights” by forcing him to vote in the local Methodist church...
...culmination of his three-day trip to Boston, Sharpton spoke to a small but enthusiastic audience of about 100 at the Christian Life Center of the St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge...
...Singapore's popular expat-heavy Brewerkz, (65) 6438 7438, micro has gone macro. The 840-sq. m brewery, opened in 1997 by the son of a teetotaling Methodist minister, makes 10 different original brews, from Singapore Pale Ale to Oatmeal Stout to Millennium Lager, available in a yard-size glass for a whopping $20 apiece. Like many other large brewpubs, Brewerkz also sells its microbrews in take-out bottles?but only on the premises. "We haven't pushed it to the greater world because I don't want to compete with the 900-lb. gorillas," says managing director Devin Kimble...