Word: spirit
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...role of the university in the larger world. Certainly, there was Rudenstine's "annual" report, issued earlier this year, which commented on diversity, but that seemed more of a historical review than a comment upon the world in which we live. This letter, while written in the same spirit as the report, is important because it responded to something in the world beyond Harvard. Rudenstine seems finally to have realized his bully pulpit, at least in small measure...
...than trying to assert the authenticity of the story of the empty crypt or backing up John's tale of Doubting Thomas, Johnson maintains that the Resurrection that has always mattered to Christians is the ongoing miracle, the "transforming, transcendent personal power" that marks the moving of the Holy Spirit in the hearts and among the communities of believers. "Christianity," he writes, "has never been able to 'prove' its claims except by appeal to the experiences and convictions of those already convinced. The only real validation for the claim that Christ is what the creed claims him to be, light...
With an extensive slide show, he illustrated the distinction between "heroes" and "clowns". The clown, he explained, is the part of the human spirit that was pushed aside "when you went to the first day of school... ready to rock, ready to roll, and everyone was looking at you. Because you looked weird...
...1970s, pranksters painted Adams with lipstick and this spirit of rebellion has persisted...
Although we were dismayed that the statement failed to mention the violence that followed the suicide bombings, we believed that this omission could be remedied. In the spirit of cooperation, the Harvard Islamic Society proposed some simple ammendments that would not detract from the focus of the statement, which was to condemn terrorism, especially the recent events in the Middle East. Our proposed additions consisted of briefly mentioning the subsequent violence against innocent Palestinians...