From this current cultural climate we see the struggle for personal authenticity and this personal authenticity requires the integration of life and death. ... When we face the homeless person in the street, who asks us to spare change, we feel uncomfortable, making this a situation that involves death, but rather than facing death we tend to circumvent death through convenience. Convenience helps us to circumvent death and in this society any feeling of death must be avoided and put off and never faced and conquered, for facing death and overcoming these little deaths requires effort and t...

• Word Count: 2067
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jesus had a love and understanding for the equality of women that was far from common practice during the time and was often tested by others. He did things such as speaking to the Samaritan girl at the well and converting her as well as saving Mary Magdalene from being stoned to death for adultery. ...

• Word Count: 1779
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• Has Bibliography
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" Now, forty years of age, Trevor is returning to his incredible past where he must face the darkness of the terrible memories, and as he approaches his past, he meets a familiar voice in his head, one that Trevor must now test his morals against as he chooses to go back to his stirring town with this mysterious voice pulling him back into the past. ... As Trevor looks back on life, and the evident result of going back to his hometown for his friend's death along with the confrontation of his morality, he says, "My father, not known for his wisdom (though he took runs at it on the ni...

• Word Count: 1698
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nor can modern science be blamed for the death of metaphysics and the privatization and cultural eclipse of religion. ... The western religions do not really want to claim God is a "fact" to be verified for as Barbour observes "to make God a hypothesis to be tested or a conclusion of an argument is to lose the experiential basis of religion" (1974:125). ...

• Word Count: 2403
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My conception of religious liberty was vague when I was younger, but as I got older and I became aware of the world around me, religious liberty has been a topic that everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also in public and especially in the papers. I used to be an uninformed protestant of the Lutheran church. I once read in the newspaper that Denmark is the least religious country in the world. When I compare my own country to the U.S, I do not have to have read books or taken lessons to know that America is a highly religious country, and has been since its earliest days. Fur...

• Word Count: 3342
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition, the new story of Jesus' death and resurrection was formulated in the sumptuous language of the mysteries. ... To move from one social level to another an age-set passes through transition rituals that not only tests endurance but also fashion or refashion ritual passengers to confirm them as Maasai of a particular social level. ...

• Word Count: 2773
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate