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...protests have also helped bring about a transformation. In May the first woman was elected to mosque leadership. In June mosque authorities publicly reversed policy and said women could enter through the front door and pray in the main hall. Since our actions began, more women attend worship services. Last month we won an even bigger victory. A Ph.D. student declared from the pulpit that "one of the most important fundamentals of our religion is to love and be loyal to Islam and the Muslims and to hate and renounce the disbelievers," the "cursed" Jews and Christians. I immediately protested...
...Paul could cite Greek poets to the Greeks, then today's proselytizers will bring the church to moviegoers and, they hope, vice versa."Today, with DVDs and the VCR, all of us can engage a movie text," Johnston says. "When a person in a worship congregation refers to The Shawshank Redemption, either people have seen it or they can rent it." In addition, 3,000-screen bookings and saturation marketing guarantee that a film that opens Friday will have been seen or at least talked about by Sunday morning...
Illinois' BARACK OBAMA showed why he's the Dems' hot star with a plea to bridge the nation's divide: "We worship an awesome God in the blue states...
...whether you'd go to hell for breaking the Sabbath, you could certainly go to jail. Centuries later, the sense that Sunday is special is still wired in us, a miniature sabbatical during which to peel off the rest of the week and savor ritual, religious or otherwise: Sunday worship, Sunday football, Sunday papers, Sunday brunch, the day you call your mother, the night the family gathers around the TV to watch, once upon a time, The Wonderful World of Disney and, now, The Simpsons...
Today, 10 years after the peace accords with Israel, drastic changes have occurred in Palestinian society. There are no icons in Palestine today, no sacred symbols, no heroes to praise and worship. There are only militants marching down the road, disturbing the peace of the dust on the ground, which rises in slow motion to powder the faces of the children playing with pebbles and stones. And there are the mothers living in the shadows of misfortune searching for some light in a world where talk is plenty but action is scarce...