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...past Sunday, the priest at St. Paul’s, Harvard’s Catholic church, delivered a homily exhorting Catholics to love everyone—short, tall, white, black, gay, and straight—because God loves everyone. While he did not address whether being gay is a sin, the priest’s homily conveys acceptance towards gays that is unfortunately absent from many Christian communities around the country...
What would Jesus say about AIDS today? In his day, there was leprosy, which was incurable. And Jesus healed lepers. He didn't turn them away. That would be the same reaction today. But Jesus did tell people he healed, "Go and sin no more." And I think that to a person with HIV/AIDS, he would tell them, "Go and sin no more...
...sin not to wear a helmet? No, it's not a sin. You know the Bible says our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. And if we do something to hurt the bodies that we have, eating too much, eating the wrong foods, drinking too much, we are hurting this body God gave us and I think putting your body at risk when you don't need to put it at risk, like riding a motorcycle without a helmet, I just don't think it makes sense. I think God gave us a brain. He expects...
...Stolen Away" was a sad and horrifying article that would send shivers down anybody's spine. Kidnapping girls for sex trafficking is a great sin and causes a lot of embarrassment for tribal cultures that value women's sanctity. The failure of Iraqis to report the kidnappings is a sign of the disgrace and shame that they experience when a daughter disappears. Look what Bush and Tony Blair have done to Iraq. Tanvir Vaqar Mirpur Mathelo, Pakistan...
...those colonial New England preachers understood a practical fact about communities: though we might wish it otherwise, people find unity and value by focusing together on what they oppose. Hence the jeremiad employs the logic of opposition—and, remarkably, it does so without demonizing other people. Sin is found within the congregation, not elsewhere; any witch-hunt goes on in your own soul. So the question is: What should Harvard oppose in order to know itself better? For me, the beginning of an answer has emerged from a careful study of some of the stationery in my office...