Word: presbyterian
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...trust that Coulter will speak from her heart. The officialdom of punditry, so full of phonies and dullards, would suffer without her humor and fire. Which is not to say you don't want to shut her up occasionally. Not long ago, I went to church with Coulter--Redeemer Presbyterian, an evangelical congregation in Manhattan. The actor Ron Silver had also tagged along--Coulter brings lots of people to church, including, at one time, an ex who is Muslim. Pastor Timothy Keller spoke of the importance of allowing one's heart to be "melted by the sense...
...adds.) Her father John, 77, was a G.I. Bill student who became an FBI agent and then a corporate lawyer; Nell Martin, who raised Ann and two boys, is the daughter of a Paducah printmaker. Coulter learned to argue around a dinner table populated by a Catholic father, a Presbyterian mother and two brothers--one of them "a Presbyterian and an anti-Papist," Coulter says with a titter, and the other a Catholic. "And I'm like Hillary with the Mets and the Yankees--I root for both...
...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...
When relatives disagree, compromise almost always comes when "those who wish to terminate care accede to the wishes of those who do not," says Dr. Kenneth Prager, director of the medical-ethics committee at New York--Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. "People do not want to be looked at for the rest of their lives by other family members as having been responsible for the death of a loved one." Schiavo's husband Michael is unusual, Prager says, in his insistence on carrying out what he says were her wishes not to live in a vegetative state...
Kennan retired from the foreign service 50 years ago to perch at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study as America's most venerated foreign policy intellectual. Although he retained the moral streak of a Presbyterian elder, it was balanced by a Bismarckian realism. With a clarity of mind to the end, he issued warnings about the dangers of the ideological passions and crusading hubris that he saw infecting America's foreign policy today. --By Walter Isaacson