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...18th century, Brown’s founder, Rev. James Manning, owned a slave and the university took donations from slave traders and owners, including the university’s namesake family, according to The New York Times. One family member who later became the university’s treasurer, John Brown, was a slave trader...
...regain control of Congress, Republicans can now emphasize their differences with Democrats on an issue Christian conservatives are particularly passionate about. Most congressional Democrats voted against a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage earlier this year. ?It?s going to remind people this issue is paramount,? says the Rev. Louis Sheldon, who runs a conservative group called the Traditional Values Coalition...
FRANCES RICE, chairwoman of the National Black Republican Association, on the negative response from blacks to a radio ad the group has aired claiming that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican...
...thrilled. More theologically liberal Catholics, however, may see it as a Lefebvrite-tinged step back from the principles they feel inspired Vatican II. "This would make it much more difficult for people to engage in full conscious and active participation, which was the goal of the Council," says Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit magazine America. Congregations could theoretically split on the issue, and many current priests would have to learn the old Mass (and more Latin, if they wanted to understand...
...finally asked to leave—the restaurant is closing—and I break off with soberer friends. All of us are walking by Winthrop when we see a shirtless collegian charging down the street with a girl riding piggyback atop him. The eponymous Rev. Increase Mather leaps to mind, who noted in his sermon “Woe to Drunkards” that “a Beast will drink no more than shall do him good; and therefore a Drunkard is worse than a Beast. Reason is that whereby a man Excels a Beast; but this...