Tomlin has been involved in a number of feminist and gay-friendly film productions, and on her 1975 album Modern Scream she poked fun at straight actors who make a point of distancing themselves from their gay and lesbian charactersanswering the pseudo-interview question, she replied: " How did it feel to play a heterosexual?

This includes Modern Orthodox's unequivocal stance prohibiting it's members from engaging in gay and Lesbian relationships.

Traces of identity politics can also be found in the early writings of the modern gay movement such as Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Liberation / Oppression ( 1971 1st ed ), Jeffrey Week's Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present ( 1977: London: Quarter ), and Ken Plummer's ed The Making of the Modern Homosexual ( 1981: London Hutchinson ).

Modern scholars note the importance of the novel to the visibility of gay literature.

Modern terms for homosexuals include dōseiaisha ( 同性愛者, literally same-sex-love person ), gei ( ゲイ, gay ), homo or homosekusharu ( ホモ, homo, ホモセクシャル, homosexual ), rezu or rezubian ( レズ, les, レズビアン, lesbian ).

Variety observed, " The first half of Thoroughly Modern Mille is quite successful in striking and maintaining a gay spirit and pace.

Modern readers often draw parallels between these and modern stereotypes of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender sexual identities.

His first and last name were used for the fictional gay couple Mitchell Pritchett ( Jesse Tyler Ferguson ) and Cameron Tucker ( Eric Stonestreet ) in the ABC comedy Modern Family.

Modern Christian hymns have been inspired by the words of the prophet Habakkuk.

Modern Christian churches tend to be much more concerned with how humanity can be saved from a universal condition of sin and death than the question of how both Jews and Gentiles can be in God's family.

Modern studies represent Hypatia's death as the result of a struggle between two Christian factions, the moderate Orestes, supported by Hypatia, and the more rigid Cyril.

Modern scholarship dating from the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement of 19th century Germany, as well as textual analysis influenced by the 20th Century discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggests that dating from this period there existed " liturgical formulations of a communal nature designated for particular occasions and conducted in a centre totally independent of Jerusalem and the Temple, making use of terminology and theological concepts that were later to become dominant in Jewish and, in some cases, Christian prayer.

Modern Lebanon's constitution, drawn up in 1926, specified a balance of power between the various religious groups, but France designed it to guarantee the political dominance of its Christian allies.

“ Mary versus Eve: Paternal Uncertainty and the Christian View of Women .” Neophilologus: International Journal of Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 95 ( 4 ) 2011: 507-521.

* The most important work by Paul S. Fiddes is The Creative Suffering of God ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 ); see also his short overview " Process Theology ," in A. E. McGrath, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1993 ), 472 – 76.

The Book of Psalms ( Tiberian: Təhillîm ; Modern: Tehillim, ת ְ ה ִ ל ִּ ים, or " praises "), commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Islamic Zabur.

Modern Christian ideas on intra-religious pluralism ( between different denominations of Christianity ) are discussed in the article on Ecumenism.

Modern Christian descriptions of the New Testament teaching in this area focus on Gentile inclusion in God's plans, without much if any consideration of Jewish exclusion.

Modern scholars regard this claim as mistaken, as the contemporary historians of science David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers write: " there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity and even know its approximate circumference.

Modern American creationism arose out of the theological split over modernist higher criticism and its rejection by the Fundamentalist Christian movement which promoted Biblical literalism and, post 1920, took up the anti-evolution cause led by William Jennings Bryan.

Modern Ramallah was founded in the mid-16th century by the Haddadins, a Jordanian tribe of brothers descended from Ghassanid Christian Arabs.

* Steiner, Rudolf ( 1965 ) Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation: Mystery Centres of the Middle Ages: Six lectures given in Dornach, 4 – 13 January 1924 ( translation of Steiner, Rudolf ( 1950 ) Mepterienstätte des Mittelalters: Rosenkreuzertum und Modernes Einweihungsprinzip, printed as volume two of The Mission of Christian Rozenkreuz ) R. Steiner, London, OCLC 7209265 ; see full text from the Rudolf Steiner Archive

* Manas, John H., Divination Ancient and Modern: An Historical Archaeological and Philosophical Approach to Seership and Christian Religion, Kessinger Publishing, 2004.

* Emil Christian Hansen, the father of Modern Brewing: At the Carlsberg Laboratories in Copenhagen, he was the first to discover that yeast was composed of different kinds of fungi and that the yeast culture could be cultivated.

Modern Christian views vary as to whether witchcraft is a generalterm for communion with evil, or a specific form of religious system and practice.

* Religious Postures: Essays on Modern Christian Apologists and Religious Problems ( Open Court, 1988 ) ISBN 0-8126-9070-2

Agape ( or ; Classical Greek:, agápē ; Modern Greek: ) is one of the Koine Greek words translated into English as love, one which became particularly appropriated in Christian theology as the love of God or Christ for humankind.

* Christian Fuchs ( 2004 ) The Antagonistic Self-Organization of Modern Society.

In contrast, some Modern Orthodox rabbis such as Eugene Korn and David Hartman hold that in some cases, the primary issue in Confrontation is no longer valid ; some Christian groups no longer attempt to use interfaith dialogue to convert Jews to Christianity.

The term " modern " ( Latin modernus from modo, " just now ") dates from the 5th century, originally distinguishing the Christian era from the Pagan era, yet the word entered general usage only in the 17th-century quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns — debating: " Is Modern culture superior to Classical ( Græco – Roman ) culture?

Modern Christian formulations of this tension include Supersessionism, Covenant Theology, New Covenant Theology, Dispensationalism and Dual-covenant theology.

* Barrett, David B., George T. Kurian, and Todd M. Johnson, World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World, 2 vols.

Within Modern Orthodox Judaism, there is no one committee or leader, but Modern Orthodox rabbis generally agree with the views set by consensus by the leaders of the Rabbinical Council of America.

Modern views of Stalin in the Russian Federation and the world remain mixed, with some viewing him as a tyrant and mass murderer, others as a capable and necessary leader for the time.

Monk made his first recordings as leader for Blue Note in 1947 ( later anthologised on Genius of Modern Music, Vol.

In 1951 Blue Note issued their first vinyl 10 " releases, and the label was soon recording new talent such as Horace Silver ( who would stay with Blue Note for a quarter of a century ), the Jazz Messengers ( originally a collaboration, but soon to become Art Blakey's group ), Milt Jackson ( as the leader of what became the Modern Jazz Quartet ) and Clifford Brown.

In Modern Times he picks up a red flag that falls off a truck and starts to wave it at the truck in an attempt to return it, and by doing so, unknowingly and inadvertently becomes the leader of a group of protesting workers, and ends up in jail because of it.

Modern biographers, particularly Andrew Murray Scott's Bonnie Dundee ( 1989, 2000 ) considers that his skill as a diplomat was as great as the inspiration he provided as a leader.

Modern knowledge of wolves dismisses the idea of alpha male in a pack, favoring the concept of breeder wolf, in the sense that in these animals the pack leader is simply the common parent, and its status is not obtained by fighting.

Although the group was fluidic and largely informal, traditionally whoever occupied the Chair of the Department of Modern Philosophy at the University of Kyoto was considered its leader.

For a while he was the leader of the communist movement in Bonn, and his autobiography, Memoirs of a Modern Gnostic, talks about organizing communist street gangs in Hamburg, which briefly put his life in danger.

( Style Council leader Paul Weller claims the song was inspired by the Swingle Singers ' 1966 album with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Place Vendôme ).

Khusro, Khosrau, Khusrau, Khosro or Khusraw ( Kasrâ in Modern Persian ; Kisrā ( كسرى ) in Arabic ; Osroes or Chosroes in Greek ; Hüsrev in Turkish ) is the name of a mythical Persian leader, in the Avesta of the Zoroastrians known as Kavi Haosravah, with the meaning " with good reputation ".

Pietro Belluschi ( August 18, 1899 — February 14, 1994 ) was an American architect, a leader of the Modern Movement in architecture, and was responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings.

Belluschi emerged as a leader in the development of American Modern architecture, with the design of several buildings reflecting the influence of the International Style and his awareness of the technological opportunities of new materials.

" Alcide De Gasperi: the apprenticeship of a political leader ," Modern Italy Nov 2009, Vol.

As he rose to become an important leader of Modern Orthodox Jewry, he ordained close to 2, 000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century thereby strengthening his status as " The Rav " -- as he was ' the rabbis's rabbi '.

Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik became the accepted leader of the Modern Orthodox movement, with the yeshiva he headed, Yeshiva University, becoming the Modern Orthodox flagship institution.

* Captain John Price, fictional leader of the 22nd SAS Regiment in the 2007 video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Within Modern Orthodox Judaism, there is no one committee or leader, but Modern Orthodox rabbis generally agree with the views set by consensus by the leaders of the Rabbinical Council of America.

Modern scholars agree that this was a confusion with another leader of a different people.

In " The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought " published in 1995, Alister McGrath associated PDI with the shepherding movement and described it as having " informal links with Bryn Jones ," the UK house church leader.

MoMA PS1 and the Museum of Modern Art formalized their affiliation in January 2000, bringing together a leader in cutting-edge art and the world's foremost museum of modern art.