The court found that “the call to hang gays in dozens tends to tremendously threaten their right to human dignity” and that the tabloid’s act “threaten the rights of the applicants to privacy of the person and their home.”
Most college students write papers and read academic journals as class assignments. But how often does 5 percent of a final grade depend on deciding the fate of the professor’s internal organs?
In a controversial book being released Tuesday, Roman Catholic-turned-Episcopal priest Alberto Cutié lashes out against his former church, calling it “misogynistic,” ‘‘disconnected” and an “institution that continues to promote old ideas.”
Brought together by a power higher than our own, we find ourselves on the virgin soil of this new continent, the representatives of numerous nationalities of the old world. Our childhood, boyhood, manhood, early training, and later education have been widely different, and the associations, modes of thought and local surroundings of each individual have not been without their influence in the formation of our character as a Church.
Spoiler Alert: The Anglican Communion is – drumroll, please – a communion. Dark predictions that a Covenant will only further promote autonomy may be ignoring the fact that that’s the way things have been for a long time.
“She likes to say that she is ‘religious but not spiritual’ — a doer whose sense of God emerges from what happens between and among people.”
This week for Social Hour, we’re wondering what you’re wishing for, and you’d like to see more of (or less of) in the coming year. And we got…
“I never thought I’d live to see the day when stuttering would be the subject of a serious mainstream movie. The condition, after all, has been coded as a joke in popular culture, one of the few disabilities considered fair game for laughs.”
“It is disappointing though not surprising that Rowan mentions marriage as a model for human solidarity but says nothing about the issue of marriage equality.”
I’ve been in the UK this Christmas. I arrived just before the snowfall that closed Heathrow for several days and just after massive student demonstrations protesting the rise in student tuition fees. Britain is considered a secular culture these days, which makes it intriguing to see how much religion appears in the media.