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...Watch out at the Leverett 80s Dance. You’ll be livin’ on a prayer when you get diagnosed with Persistive Vegetative Syndrome...
...some of them to destroy their dog tags—which the U.S. Army had engraved with an “H” for Hebrew. Many lied about their “race” when interrogated. In one instance, a soldier buried his Army-issue Jewish prayer book in the dirt of Germany...
...landmark of Kimball's reign was a 1978 decree that opened the priesthood to blacks. In the Mormon system, which has no clergy, virtually all twelve-year-old males receive the priesthood, a prerequisite for holding any church office. After assiduous prayer, Kimball announced that he had experienced a revelation about the new status for blacks. Mormonism holds that such divine disclosures are unique to the church President. The new policy, as important and radical a departure as the abolition of polygamy in 1890, added legitimacy to proselytizing efforts overseas. In nondoctrinal matters, Kimball also took a strong lead, firmly...
America was the first country to properly announce its intention and actually separate church and state. It takes this separation seriously, keeping prayer out of schools with near-religious fervor. This is in stark contrast to my South African public school, where I had been led in prayer often enough. Despite the religious diversity, I nevertheless would have preferred a school where I didn’t have to pray to whichever...
Under American standards I may come from a less than piously secular state, with Good Friday and Easter Monday off from work and prayer practiced in school. This is far from ideal, but to me it seems a good deal better than American secularism—where one works through religious days but is subject to laws inspired by biblical interpretations...