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...China and Japan still raw after weeks of anti-Japanese protests in major Chinese cities, 80 Japanese Diet members and the personal representatives of 86 others assembled at 8:00 a.m. last Friday to pay their respects at the Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo. No ordinary center of Shinto worship, Yasukuni is where the souls of 2.5 million Japanese war dead are enshrined. Since 1978, when 14 of Japan's most notorious World War II war criminals were added to the books of veneration there, Japan's neighbors have considered the shrine not a national and religious monument...
...flashy, American Almanac is loping and folksy. As Host Roger Mudd says in the first episode, "We'd like this to be the sort of show you might hang on a nail by the kitchen door." Executive Producer Ed Fouhy sees his mandate as exploring the quotidian: how Americans worship, rear their families, spend their money, relax. "We will not try to dazzle anybody with our technical footwork," he says...
...will continue to preach as instructed. Our God is not blind. He is not deaf. He is not sleeping. He sees what is happening, and when he sees, he acts. God came down to deliver his people out of bondage. I have no doubt that the God we worship sees what is happening in our land. For goodness' sake, we are human beings, not animals. Recognize us for what we are: those whom God made in his image. I believe that what you get through the barrel of a gun you must keep with the barrel...
AACF and the Harvard Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) are non-denominational sister fellowships—groups of Christians who gather regularly for Bible study groups and worship sessions—affiliated with the same national organization...
Like HRSFA, the fellowships are fond of acronyms. HRCF and AACF both hold Friday Large Groups, opportunities for speakers to share their experiences and for fellowship members to worship and pray together. After Large Groups, members can stick around for After-Fellowship Activities (AFAs). AFAs range from movie nights, to games of Capture the Flag on the T, to trips to dessert trips to Super 88, the Asian supermarket in Allston. And while some members of AACF and HRCF do drink, it’s not considered an important mode of socializing...