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...rarified but also isolated position of archbishop. "I soon realized that a relationship with Jesus Christ, as intense as it might be on the spiritual level, could not fill the emptiness rising from the lack of the physical presence and reality of another human person," he writes in A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church...
...hope that my research on the impact of the Hajj pilgrimage on the pilgrim will inform the wider academic debate on the nature and interaction of religious and non-religious beliefs in Islam,” he said in the press release...
...even born, it could be genetics,” Taveras said. “We don’t have all the answers for parents yet.” The recently-published study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, was conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital in Boston. The data from 559 mother/child pairs used in the study was collected from a subgroup from Project Viva, which has been following over 2000 pregnant women recruited in the first trimester of their pregnancy since...
When asked how his New Year celebrations have been, the pilgrim - a middle-aged businessman wearing a heavy winter coat against the bitter winds that knife through the monastery's narrow alleys - immediately glances up and then over his shoulder. It is the universal, instinctive reaction of Tibetans I talked to on a recent trip to China's far western province of Qinghai, where ethnic Tibetans make up the majority of the population in the areas closest to the Qinghai-Tibet border. "Cameras," he hisses, nodding upward. "The police have them everywhere...
...further examples could be plucked from the annals of history. Nature writing has a long and rich history, extending from the Greek poets; to Wordsworth, Thoreau, and Muir in the 19th century; to the 1970s renaissance of nature-based works like Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.” Embedded in all this lyricism is an environmental ethics—descriptions of breathtaking beauty move us to realize why nature should not be destroyed and encourage us to industrialize responsibly...