Word: religione
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...Although Bruner, who described himself as a secular Jew, said he felt that Memorial Church should be open to non-Protestant services, others thought that opening the church would damage the sanctity of religion...
...April 22, the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—announced that it would open the Church’s doors to the private services of all non-Protestant religions, setting off a debate at the University about the role of religion at Harvard...
...Williams, the philosophy professor, said, “The move was a gesture in favor of religion only in the sense that polygamy is a gesture in favor of romantic love...
...notion of the greater glory of god does not mean one god in one way,” he said. “Harvard should keep alive a grand, universal tradition in the realm of religion...
...Blair has enough old-fashioned British reserve to have his doubts about the way religion is used in the American public square. Whenever Blair was on a foreign trip, says a close aide, his staff had to find him a church in which to worship each Sunday-and then try to make sure that the press didn't learn of it. By contrast, says this aide, "Bush and Clinton are always photographed coming out of church holding a Bible." But at the same time, Blair insists that Europeans need to understand the importance faith has in American life-and recognize...