Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoke before a crowd of 2,000 at an annual presidential prayer breakfast in the Sheraton-Park Hotel. The President reported that each evening he reads selected letters addressed to him from all over the country. Sounding a little like Graham himself, he said: "Even in this period when religion is not supposed to be fashionable, when agnosticism and skepticism seem to be on the upturn [the mail includes] prayers for this country, for the leadership this nation may be able to provide for the world...
...that it professed at the time of the affiliation. On that ground, the jury awarded the property to the Eastern Heights and Hull Memorial Presbyterian Churches. But the Supreme Court reversed the decision, declaring that civil courts may not resolve disputes that "go to the very core of a religion" without violating the Constitution...
...more to fight racism, poverty and disease around the world. To Blake, such enlightened concern seems ample evidence of the organized church's contemporary relevance. Despite currents of anti-institutionalism sweeping the globe, he finds more people than ever before turning to the comfort of the church. "Religion," he says, "is not a problem but an answer...
While he has a Midas flair for making money, Stone is equally skilled at giving it away. Last year the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation, the fund that he shares with his wife, donated $4,500,000, mostly in the fields of mental health, religion and education. Characteristically, Stone helps those who help themselves: almost all of his grants require the recipients to raise some money as well...
Another source of black anti-Semitism is the fact that the Jew is clearly different from other whites, with his proud heritage of a particular religion, culture and language. The Jew, moreover, had an entirely different kind of ethos?a powerful family bond, a tradition of faith in education?and a different kind of hope. He could aspire to follow in the footsteps of the Irish, the Italian and the German immigrant, who had preceded him out of the ghetto into middle-class success. Because of his color, the black man had no such expectation...