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...April 2]. As a high school senior taking advanced-placement English, my fellow students and I so struggled to read Herman Hesse's Demian, with its Christian symbolism, that my teacher decided to have us learn about various books of the Bible. High schools should offer classes on world religions. Hoping that students will take comparative religion courses in college leaves too much to chance...
...first major work, “The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine,” examines both the political and religious aspects of the emergence of the Cossacks...
...early modern Ukrainian history and the religious history of Ukraine,” he adds. “Once I came to Canada, I decided, why not bring together these two interests. I was able to bring [them] together and look at the Cossack participation in the wars of religion in that time, the ideas they were fired by, and their impact on religious discourse...
...rights of adults. "Just about everything we do tells [teens] they're incompetent," Epstein writes. "We protect them from danger (driving, cigarettes, alcohol); we don't trust them to work or own property ... We don't allow them to make basic decisions about their health, education or religion." Epstein's proposal? Allow any kid--of any age--who can "pass one or more relevant competency tests" not only to do constructive things like sign contracts and vote but also to do essentially anything he or she wants: have sex with people of any age, drink, smoke, drive, get a tattoo...
What has also been confirmed is that the region's sacred places have been serving civic purposes without regard to anybody's religion. Even religious groups that proselytize by tradition have responded to the disaster by collaborating across once deep religious, racial and socioeconomic divides. "When it comes to serving the needy, we don't proselytize," says the Rev. Travis Scruggs, the minister of home relief and recovery for the First Baptist Church of New Orleans, who is known around town as the "Disaster Pastor." "We love people the way Christ loved them, without turning anyone away. Actions speak louder...