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Your otherwise insightful report on Vietnam's economic revival [COVER, April 24] misrepresents the extent of religious freedom there. Vietnam -- perhaps Asia's most spiritual country (it is overwhelmingly Buddhist) -- is entering the fifth decade of the communist government's campaign to eradicate all independent worship. Authorities still persecute religious leaders who dare to organize outside government-controlled churches. Roman Catholicism is decapitated by Hanoi's blocking the Vatican's appointment of bishops and imposing tight restrictions on those allowed to attend seminaries. Protestant church leaders who hold unauthorized meetings have been hit with staggering fines. In the past three...
...have roguish past. They are signifiers of untamed wilderness and rebellious vigor. Tan pants put you in mind of, well, the Ivy League. How exciting is that? It's really east coast WASPs versus the melting pot of the other 45 states. It's downright un-American not to worship the frontier...
...some flak" for the racial alteration. There were those who thought Oakhurst was caving in to the dogmatizers of diversity, the whistle blowers of melanin management. Some chose to leave the church and the neighborhood, looking for greener pastures and whiter places in which to live and worship. And then there were those that came, saw and stayed. In a perfect world, religion should be color-blind. Oakhurst isn't in that perfect world. It's in Decatur, Georgia...
Stroupe began to make changes. He added something to the worship service that he calls "a sharing of concerns and joys" where congregation members stand up and tell anecdotes from their lives. "It's a way to get some of the spontaneity of the black church into our service," he says. "It's also a way for people to see that our lives are more alike than we think." At Palm Sunday service, a black woman got up to say she believes in miracles because the last of several boys in her family was graduating from college, despite the fact...
...READ WITH INTEREST IAN BURUMA'S article, "Lost Without a Faith,'' about how the Japanese are looking for new gods [Cover, April 3]. Buruma has keen insight into the Japanese mentality. I don't agree, however, with his opinion that Soka Gakkai members worship Daisaku Ikeda, honorary president of the group, as a monarch. The Soka Gakkai is a grass-roots Buddhist organization whose goal is the establishment of world peace. Since it stands on the side of the common people, it has always been criticized and persecuted by the authorities. Its first president, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, a renowned educator, died...