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...note that this year's Noble Lecturer will be John Shelby Spong. In his many writings, Spong has disavowed nearly every traditional Christian belief. In his self-congratulatory A Call for a New Reformation, Spong claims that theism is dead, that Jesus was not God incarnate, that original sin is false, that the virgin birth was impossible, that miracles never happened, that the story of Christ on the cross is "a barbarian idea," that Jesus was not resurrected, that prayer does not work, that there is no heaven or hell and that there is "no external, objective, revealed standard...
Largent, like the other Republicans, says he meant no anti-Catholic slight. "If this wasn't an election year," he says, "we wouldn't be discussing this." That may be; and Bush's sin was probably one of political necessity, not religious intolerance. However, both Largent, as a proponent of prayer in the schools, and Bush, who believes churches should be prominent distributors of government money, have a lot riding on the idea that believers of various creeds will lay aside their differences in the name of God and country. The past week or so may have given them...
...mistake, maybe even a sin, to wait that long because at his best Sharpton has the makings of a moral leader. You could sense that as he stood outside the courthouse in Albany to appeal for calm. "Let not one brick be thrown, not one bottle be thrown," said Sharpton. "Those that believe in Amadou should not betray his memory by acting like those who killed him." That's the kind of talk New York needs to hear as it searches for answers to the questions that were not asked at the trial...
...murder. The evidence sounds damning, although we are not told the specifics of the case until much later in the book. The story is told by him and by others, always in a slightly mournful, regretful voice, as if the whole cast were paying penance for a communal sin...
...Fischler said the league dealt relatively harshly with McSorley - 23 games is a record - "because he's an easy target. He's... at the end of his career and he committed hockey's only sin: He didn't drop his stick." But that doesn't mean we can expect a rules change. "Every two months the NHL seems to make a decision to crack down on [fighting]," says Fischler. And then it's quickly forgotten...