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...Rev. Richard McBrien feels that we have quite enough heaven now, thank you. McBrien, a liberal Catholic theologian at the University of Notre Dame who has skirmished on occasion with the Vatican but whose theological and historical grasp few would question, believes that before the Vatican II reforms of the mid-1960s, his church had slipped into the lazy role of using heaven and hell as "stories meant to encourage and frighten." Catholicism's once vivid otherworldliness had devolved into a sort of rote board game, in which preoccupation with involved scenarios of the life to come became an excuse...
...mixed family--Protestant, Catholic--and I've seen what religion has done around here, and I'm just nervous of it. But there's one church that if I was living close by I'd definitely be in the congregation. [It's] in San Francisco--Glide Memorial. Rev. Cecil Williams there looks after the homeless, gays, straights; he marched with Martin Luther King, he's funny as hell--pardon the pun--and you can get an HIV test during the service. Now that's my kind of church...
Pictures of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other notable black scientists and activists cover the walls of the house...
...lunch with the Rev. Jesse Jackson attracted the highest bid at the Kennedy School of Government's eighth annual Student Internship Fund Auction, held last Thursday...
Other Board members include: Rabbi Sally Finestone of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; Dr. Cyrus Mehta; Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III of Trinity Church; Father George S. Salzmann, and Rev. Victor H. Kasanjian Jr., dean of religious life at Wellesley College...