Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...introductory meeting last year, I was disappointed with the lack of integrity of the group. While peppering the meeting with belittling jokes...toward Christians, [the past HSS president]] still tried to maintain that he wanted to engage Christians in honest discussions about truth," Stevens says...
...both share a passion for not shying away from discussions of spiritual truth and reality," Stevens says. "HSS provides a good forum for people who really do care about engaging these issues intellectually...
...those who favor a more inclusive attitude toward sex education (one that includes discussion of condoms and other contraceptives) worry that abstinence-only programs will, in their refusal to address the mechanics of sex, condemn students to disease and pregnancy that might have been prevented by condoms. The truth of the matter, of course, is that neither position is quite as absolute as its opponents might believe...
...with why there was no story about how the Fly Club raised money and toys for a local charity at their party earlier this month. It is just more fun to engage in mindless gossip about chickens and closings then it is to provide any accurate representation of the truth...
...Gordimer herself begs pardon, in this collection's first essay: nothing I write in such factual pieces will be as true as my fiction. What is appropriately important to her is emotional truth, words that somehow resonate inside the reader. Hemingway used to assure himself that if he could write one true sentence, he was on the right track: it is this kind of truth that is meaningful to the writer of fiction, truth to the spirit. The problem is, this is also the kind of truth that needs to be important to the writer of the kind of nonfiction...