While confidence in Osama bin Laden has fallen sharply since 2003 among every other Muslim population surveyed, a 54%-majority of Nigerian Muslims express confidence in the al Qaeda leader, up from 44% in 2003.
McCardell will remain as president of Choose Responsibility through June 30, and will be succeeded by Barrett Seaman, author of Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess and a founding board member of Choose Responsibility. Though he will be stepping down as president of Choose Responsibility, McCardell will remain active in the issue.
As we debate Bahati’s bill, we will learn that the factors that shape human sexuality are complex and we should therefore not kill anyone because they are different. We should punish those who sexually molest children and those who rape – not because of their sexual orientation but because they violated some else’s rights while seeking sexual gratification.
A new building is not always the way to go. And in this case it comes with benefits not originally sought.
Providence is a tricky thing because one can easily over-define it to a point where we are simply chess pieces for God to move around the terrestrial board. To make matters trickier, one can also under-define Providence to a deistic level: God is merely an observer, having set events in motion with the winding of creation’s clock long ago. Neither of these definitions is satisfactory.
May the blessed Kings pray for you in the Mystical Body of our Lord, may they impart to you something of the faith that sent them on their mysterious journey, and of the joy which they found when they knelt before the Lord of Heaven made Man. It seems to me that no one has ever adequately portrayed in words the beauty of this season.