Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just shows Harvard isn't committed to the type of diversity that they preach to the students that come in, the students that are applying," said Efrain Cortes '93, former president of the Puerto Rican student group La O, last fall...
...After watching West coax amen after amen from the hard-to-please congregation of the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California, with a fiery sermon, many people are convinced he's an ordained minister. Observed theologian William Sloane Coffin, who witnessed it: "That was black preaching at its best." The truth, says West, is that although he accepted Christ as his personal Saviour when he was 14, "I've just never felt the call to preach. I don't proselytize for anybody, including Jesus...
...sexual encounters, according to the Center for Population Options. "Kids are seeing a world in which everything is sensual and physical," says Dr. Richard Ratner, who this week takes office as president of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry. "Even in this era of feminism, rap songs preach, 'Take this bitch and f--- her.' Everything is more explicit. It's the difference between wearing a bathing suit and walking around nude...
...abstain from genital contact" and that the "correct use of condoms does not prevent HIV infection but only delays it." Most teens don't need a school course to know that neither of those statements is correct. How are they going to believe in abstinence if those who preach don't have their facts straight...
...mostly disappointed in the Harvard administration. While Powell is certainly an inspiring and thoughtful speaker, we wonder how inspiring he will seem to those students denied participation in ROTC because of their sexual orientation. Commencement speeches are a good time to preach the value of serving your country, but Powell would deny that right to hundreds of students. By lending the special imprimatur of Harvard to Powell, the University's commitment to non-discrimination against homosexuals might not be called into doubt, but its sensitivity certainly...