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...Peter J. Gomes is afraid: he is afraid that the gospel of Jesus, the radical and “scandalous” good news he brought, has been lost in the rest of the Bible. The effort to reclaim the message constitutes the subject of the latest book by Gomes, a religion professor and the minister of Memorial Church. “It is no accident that although Jesus came preaching a disturbing and redistributive gospel, we do not preach what Jesus preached,” he writes. “Instead, we preach Jesus...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jesus Teaches, But Gomes Preaches | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...worked at a 7-Eleven store and knew the Dukas and Shnewer from high school, asked Omar outright if he was a "fed." Three days later, Tatar contacted a Philadelphia police sergeant to report that someone was pressuring him to acquire maps of Fort Dix - and that he was afraid it might be terrorism-related. (Tatar's father owned a pizzeria and had a map of the base and clearance to deliver there.) The sergeant called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Dix Conspiracy | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...believes. Voters also express emotional reactions to candidates, and on that front, Clinton's numbers in Iowa look different as well. She generates less hope and pride in Iowa than in New Hampshire - or the nation as a whole - and those Iowans who say she makes them feel afraid are far less likely to support her than are their counterparts at the national level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How American Voters Decide | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

Speaking at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas Thursday morning, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney countered questions about his Mormon faith by throwing down an implicit question of his own to religious conservatives: Who are you more afraid of - Mormons or secularists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romney's Risky Faith Gambit | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...think they were expecting the intensity of the film. FM: We all feel deeply connected to John Harvard…but crying about him?! How exactly did you pull that one off? AB: I can’t say I was expecting to cry but I was not afraid of crying or not crying. I just wanted it to come out truthfully. The way I was breathing, and the coughing, that was enough… The physical stress with thinking of what you’re leaving on the table, dying at 31, it was actually touching...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Statue's Reincarnation | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

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