Last night, Stephen Fry won the Harvard Secular Society's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. The audience packed the pews of Memorial church, and rolled with laughter at Fry's speech, filled with jokes as well as with rhetoric about reason and religion. As a former atheist
02.23.2011| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
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“Well, if a man is not to believe in himself, in what is he to believe?” This question posed by G.K Chesterton’s well-meaning publisher, served as the premise for Chesterton’s book, Orthodoxy, in which he provides the answer to this query (hint: it involves God!) Indeed, belief in one's s
09.24.2010| The Fish Tank | Jeweliann Houlette
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This was posted last year around prefrosh weekend, but seemed equally applicable to freshmen who have just come on campus. Enjoy! - The editors. My dear Wigglesworm, It has come to my attention that your charge has been admitted to Harvard, and that you are inordinately proud of this devel
09.8.2010| Featured, The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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"Culture making requires shared goods. Culture making is people (plural) making something of the world - it is never a solitary affair. Only artifacts that leave the solitude of their inventors' studios and imaginations can move the horizons of possibility and become the raw material for more cultur
07.31.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
1 CommentWell, if you just look at this girl, you would quite easily come to the conclusion that she is liberal. I mean, come on. I wear flowers in my hair. I steal unnamed flowers from old churchyards and leave them at the feet of sleeping homeless people. I'm a writer and an artist and well, I went to Harv
06.8.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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So, I graduate in one day. This is what we read this morning, in a simple service by the Charles River - just thought I would share. Adapted from the Book of Common Prayer. The Last Morning Liturgy! 5: 00 AM , Wednesday May 26th, Charles River Officiant: Nations shall come to your
05.26.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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"Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43:18-19 "Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one t
05.2.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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