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...next event in the Brattle’s birthday celebration will be the presentation on May 6 of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Albert Maysles, one of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 1960s...
...Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Beliefnet website found that 89% of evangelical leaders thought it "very important" to "insist on the truth of the Gospel" to Muslims. These leaders sincerely want to emulate Jesus' love by acts of feeding and healing, says Southern Baptist official R. Albert Mohler Jr., but "aid alone is not sufficient to bring a person to a saving knowledge of Christ." They have grown increasingly eager to expose Islam's "unreached" millions to Jesus. Missionary numbers in Muslim lands are reported to have quadrupled over the past decade. Thus, while Evangelicals supported the Iraq...
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem," wrote Albert Camus, "and that is suicide." It never fails to puzzle society when someone claims to have solved it. On March 31, Britons Robert and Jennifer Stokes flew to Zurich to kill themselves with the help of professionals. The Stokes were in chronic discomfort - Jennifer, 53, suffered from diabetes and Robert, 59, was epileptic - and both reportedly were prone to depression. But neither was terminally ill, according to relatives. In Zurich, the Stokes were greeted by staff members from Dignitas, an assisted-suicide group in Switzerland, where the practice is legal...
...four-story study wing housing restoration workshops and a library. Designed by the Austrian architects Erich Steinmayr and Friedrich Mascher so that it is concealed within the expanse of palace buildings, it leaves Vienna's skyline unchanged. The art collection of the palace's second owner, Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen, was already famous in his own lifetime, 1738-1822. Albert's grandson, Archduke Albrecht, allowed the public to view the collection in the family residence as early as 1873, but exhibition space was always limited. Now some 1,000 sq m of gallery space has been created underground, within...
...That's a false impression, says Albert Mohler. The missionaries, he says, whose aim is partly humanitarian, see themselves as part of a tradition dating back 2000 years, to the mission that brought Jesus to Jerusalem. It was a journey that provoked unrest, frightened authority and led Christ to the cross, but ultimately, Christians believe, delivered a life-saving message to the world...