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...life goal instead of something that happens for 12 years in school,” she said. Audience members expressed enthusiasm for the Dalai Lama’s ideas. Allyson R. Lent, a first-year student at the Divinity School studying to be ordained in a Unitarian Universalist church, said she wants to spread the Dalai Lama’s message about compassion to her own communities. Daniel M. Dion, a student in his final year studying Catholic theology, said, “I care about inter-religious dialogue, and it’s important to have the possibility...
...national energy issues. “Just as importantly,” he said. “[the town hall] helped to further deepen a growing relationship between our network of students and our congressional representative.” The discussion, held in the First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist Church, included panelists from “Clean Water Action,” “Massachusetts Green Jobs Coalition,” and “Green Corps.” —Staff writer Carola A. Cintron-Arroyo can be reached at ccintron@fas.harvard.edu...
...Human Rights Defenders, and that the doctrine of natural rights demanded that the prisoners’ shackles be burst asunder post-haste.If human rights advocates are to establish a relevant global code of ethics, they must jettison this language of abstract rights in favor of a consensus anchored in the universalist elements of cultures around the world. Advocates must sincerely acknowledge cultural context in order to effectively address issues of common human welfare. The platform of human rights must shift from supracultural abstraction—“universally rational” values which ultimately rest upon Western liberalism?...
William F. Schulz, one of the new fellows and the former executive director of Amnesty International, has been “a major player in the human rights world,” Fischer said. As the director of Amnesty for the past 12 years and president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations prior to that, Schulz has worked extensively in the human rights arena...
...being an openly gay Christian will be easy for those whose faith prohibits them from acknowledging their sexuality. But I do know that there are openly gay Christians, such as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes, and that same-sex marriage ceremonies are performed by Unitarian Universalist churches, some Quaker congregations, and by the Metropolitan Community Church. For gay Jews, some Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish synagogues perform same-sex marriages...