Word: religion
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Religious leaders and academics discussed the connection between religion and politics at last night's Institute of Politics panel held at the Kennedy School's ARCO forum...
...panel, titled "Religion and Politics," featured Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine; Jeff Taylor, director of governmental affairs for the Christian Coalition (CC); Jim Wallis, a fellow at the Center for Study of Values in Public Life and editor of Sojourner magazine; Rev. Dr. Albert Pennybacker of the National Coalition of Churches of Christ and Anna Greenberg, assistant professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School...
Jeff Taylor began the discussion speaking on the specific issues of public policy that make up the goals of the CC. Taylor's introduction set the tone of the panel, with most panelists giving examples of issue-oriented churches as ways in which religion and politics are connected...
...living--in infomercials, at seminars and on tapes that establish him as the biggest mouth in the self-help industry. But one day, while tripping out on weed and expired cough syrup, he is visited by a shape-shifting Brazilian midget who inspires him to found his own religion. The guru turns his California pad into a temple and teaches his followers to wear Gap clothing, bungee-jump and practice Tantric sex in preparation for their own "disappearance"--nirvana in Robinson's religion. The novel is a patchwork of clever ideas that never quite settle into a story...
...into, but I think, rather, there was a tacit consensus that his life was too important, too elevated, to mess with. It was what a life should be: private, accomplished, well-mannered and devoid of envy, gossip and whining. As an emblem of nobility, indeed of secular religion, he could be most useful to others if let alone...