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...civil violence, war with Iraq, economic ruin, international isolation. Yet, however untidy their methods, the country's ruling clergymen seemed united in their dedication to establish an Islamic republic. Now, apparently, that solidarity is vanishing, if indeed it ever existed in the first place. Having ruthlessly eliminated their secular opponents, the mullahs have lately turned on each other, arguing over everything from the sacred (Islamic law) to the profane (the spoils of political power...
Both schools are proud of their traditions and uncommonly true to them. They have never gone coed or been closely affiliated with a women's college. Today, only three other secular, four-year liberal arts colleges can make the same claims: Wabash College (enrollment: 780) in Crawfordsville, Ind., and two state-supported military schools, the Citadel in Charleston, S.C., and Virginia Military Institute in Lexington...
...find a lot of guys on the team are pretty religious. I don't think most people at Harvard are as secular as they appear--for the most part there aren't that many channels to show their religiosity. But if you could ever see how many football players are at church on Sunday, starting with the five-o'clock Mass on Saturday...
...years the N.C.C. has appeared to be little more than the Americans for Democratic Action at prayer, parroting a liberal political line. Appropriately, its newest antagonist is the Institute on Religion and Democracy, an ecclesiastical clone of the secular neoconservative movement. The I.R.D.'s leader, a Meth odist minister, charged last week that the N.C.C. is "captive to a left-wing philosophy which is not compatible with what most members of local churches believe...
Lukoffs "embassy," founded only last year, has set up permanent shop in the former Chilean embassy (all foreign embassies have moved out of Jerusalem). At a time of dwindling religious and secular support for Israel, it acts as a center for visiting Christians and seeks to rally friendship for the Jewish state among the tens of millions of Evangelicals around the world. Most of the 30 full-time volunteer staffers, and many contributors to the monthly budget of $15,000, are Charismatics. Virtually all are millenarians, who believe that Zionism is part of God's design for the days...