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...building and discloses them to the outside. It could also be called a gesture of pure architectural theater. Especially at night, when the building is lit from within, it's a completely smashing addition to the neighborhood, somehow managing to bridge the divide between the Ukrainian Catholic church that borders it on its eastern side and the hip hotel just to its south...
...There is a church in the Colaba district of Mumbai named the Afghan Church. This was built in 1847 by the British in memory of the soldiers killed in the unsuccessful Afghan war between 1838 and 1843. It will be highly embarrassing for a Nobel Peace Prize - winning U.S. President if he has to build an Afghan Church in Arlington National Cemetery. Thomas Chaze Mumbai...
...Silverman's blog is more than just a list of funny bloopers. It also recounts several egregious plagiarism cases, including one in which a Canadian newspaper fabricated an entire story about Prime Minister Stephen Harper, claiming that he pocketed a communion wafer instead of ingesting it during a church communion. "Wafergate" never happened, and the story included quotes supposedly uttered by prominent officials that were completely fabricated. Whoops. Hopefully this buys us a little leeway: the next time we screw up, just remember that others have done worse...
...walked back to his dorm from evening prayers in Canaday. His attackers were also later identified as skinheads who hung out in the Pit. Many in the Harvard community viewed the attack as a hate crime; the Harvard United Ministry organized a silent vigil at Memorial Church, followed by a peace march through...
Despite the plethora of miracles, Roberts was no match for the charismatic, mainstream electricity generated by his contemporary Billy Graham. There was always the reek of snake oil to Roberts' piety, hence his long attempt at seeking respectability: joining the United Methodist Church in the late 1960s and giving up the rootlessness of his evangelism. The Methodists, however, would later condemn his methods. For a while, his hospital and academic empire helped make him a pillar of Tulsa society. But the kind of faith he espoused was made of constant appeals to his audience to prove...