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...Catholics are the largest single denomination, although taken as a whole members of various Protestant denominations (Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian being the largest) outnumber Catholics in both chambers. The high Catholic number isn't surprising considering that about a quarter of Americans are Catholic. But in other ways, Congress is a bit different from the American public in terms of religion. John Green, a political science professor at the University of Akron who studies religion and politics, estimated that the American electorate of 2004 included about 14% of people who called themselves "unaffiliated believers," "seculars," or "atheists, agonistic." Only...
...screen for those who think evolution is somehow ungodly. And that appalls the many scientists and science teachers who believe in evolution and also believe in God. "I accept evolution as the best scientific explanation for life as we know it," says Jeremy Mohn, a self-described "very religious" Methodist who teaches biology at Blue Valley Northwest High School, just a few minutes' drive from Bingman's school. "I also believe that God is ultimately responsible for the process. But it's not our job to dust for fingerprints." --Reported by Noah Isackson/Overland Park and Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles
...Rivera’s Village Street Quartet; Ginastera’s Quartet No. 1; Piazzola’s Tango for 4. Presented by the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office $20, $10 for students. 8 p.m. Harvard Epworth Methodist Church. (ELF)MUSIC | The Music of Yannatos & BartokThe Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will perform a superb program of classical music, including a selection written by its conductor, James Yannatos. Come hear one of the greatest collegiate orchestras in the world. Other selections will include Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra and a surprise...
Alfred Kinsey (played with a magnificently starchy charisma by Liam Neeson) is a straitlaced Methodist who expands his pedantic passion for insects into a fascination with the eccentricities of human beings. He leaps to fame in the same way Vladimir Nabokov did, as a decorous entomologist who shocked '50s America with a high-IQ book about sex. At Indiana University Kinsey first scandalized the academic community with lectures on sex and then with his books that itemized the frequency of masturbation among teen boys and the, shall we say, animal husbandry of farmhands...
...Harvard Organ Society, HUAM and Memorial church sponsor an afternoon recital with organist Andrew Paul Holman. Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church. Adolphus-Busch Hall, 12:15 p.m. Free and open to the public...