Suppress natural urges or glory, hallelujah? A teen’s raging hormones conflict with her beliefs in this “coming” of age comedy.
Religion
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The stained-glass ceiling
Not everyone can talk about God and get others to listen. But there’s something about the Rev. Myra Brown’s voice that perfectly suits her line of work; her calm and reassurance connects. Brown, 51, is a fixture in the Rochester-area spiritual scene, spanning everything from being a young altar worker at black Catholic revivals to […]
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Atheists fight Christian afterschool club
The most dangerous thing at this afterschool meeting of the Good News Club at Chestnut Ridge Elementary School in the Churchville-Chili school district appears to be the game of blindfolded dodgeball in the gym. But members of another local group, the Young Skeptics, will tell you that Good News is dangerous and should not be […]
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An atheist in the Town of Greece
Religion can alienate as well as unite. When government officials have prayer at public meetings, they can estrange some of the very people they’ve been elected to serve, says Hamlin resident Dan Courtney. The Town of Greece began opening its monthly Town Board meetings with a prayer given by an invited member of the local […]
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Top court says Greece prayers are constitutional
In a decision issued this morning, the US Supreme Court says Greece officials are not violating the First Amendment by opening Town Board meetings with a prayer. Rochester residents Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens filed the initial complaint against the Town of Greece. Since 1999, the town has invited clergy from the Greece community to offer […]
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Unholy alliance
After retiring from his position as a New York State Family Court judge, Anthony Sciolino has published “The Holocaust, The Church, And The Law Of Unintended Consequences: How Christian Anti-Judaism Spawned Nazi Anti-Semitism.” The book paints a scathing picture of the Catholic Church’s anti-Jewish bias over many centuries, a bias that Sciolino says helped create the conditions that allowed the Holocaust to happen.
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Thou shalt not kill
Shortly after the September 11 attacks, a few figures in Rochester’s Christian community recognized a void in the local response to the tragedy. As the country cocked its collective fist and prepared to exact bloody revenge on a global scale, several secular organizations in the area had quickly released statements urging restraint. “Some of […]
