Word: sacredness
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In such places, conservatism is as much about individualism as anything else. It’s why the right to self-defense is sacred, it’s why as a schoolchild I was required to say not only the Pledge of Allegiance but also the Texas Pledge, itâ?...
Child protection in the Northern Territory has long been a hot-button issue in Australia. In 2007, the Northern Territory government released a report titled "Little Children Are Sacred," which revealed appalling statistics about rife sexual abuse of children in remote Aboriginal communities. The report was immediately picked up by...
A Fragile Peace Naturally, archaeology's Jerusalem Syndrome is not limited to a single religion. Many Muslim scholars refuse to believe that a Jewish temple ever existed beneath the Haram al-Sharif, or Temple Mount, even though thousands of Jews flock every day to pray at the Western Wall. The...
It shouldn't be. Jerusalem is one of the world's richest archaeological sites. In its 6,000-year history, the city has changed hands more than 120 times. It has been ruled - and this is an incomplete list - by Jebusites, Israelites, Romans, Persians, Greeks, crusaders, Mamelukes, Ottomans, British, Jordanians...
A fierce intellectual, an intrepid scholar, a wicked wit and an uncompromising radical, Mary Daly was the first feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who died Jan. 3 at 81, taught at Boston College for 33 years, and her outspoken views gave the school's Jesuit administration indigestion nearly every day...