According to Interfax (Moscow, May 12), the Russian Church has once again reassured that it thinks impossible for the Orthodox believers to conduct services together with members of other Christian confessions. Metropolitan Emmanuel of France (Patriarchate of Constantinople) replied that “the standpoint of the Moscow Patriarchate on this matter reminds him of a husband who has a wife, but does not sleep with her.”
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Turkey is uniquely positioned as a bridge between east and west at a crucial time for the European Union and the world in general,” the Queen of England said at a banquet in Ankara. (More)
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In an article by Jonathan Gottschall I read that “over the last decade or so, more and more literary scholars have agreed that the field has become moribund, aimless, and increasingly irrelevant to the concerns not only of the “outside world,” but also to the world inside the ivory tower. Class enrollments and funding are down, morale is sagging, huge numbers of PhDs can’t find jobs, and books languish unpublished or unpurchased because almost no one, not even other literary scholars, wants to read them.” Yale’s William Deresiewicz wrote in The Nation that “the real story of academic literary criticism today is that the profession is, however slowly, dying.”
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