Word: belief
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...what's missing? In movie terms, a rooting interest. In religious terms, a sense of faith. Balian's faith is a wavering, sometime thing. The final decision--to make war or to chuck it--is a matter not of Christian belief but of a secular conscience. That's because Balian is less an ancient warrior than a modern statesman. As a 12th century commander, he is obliged to seize the Holy Land for the church and state he serves. But as a representative of early 21st century liberal thinking, he has to consider a decision that only posterity will deem...
...world’s mysteries—mountains, the ocean, art, and poetry—to the point of rapture. Anything I thought was beautiful brought me to tears. I loved my family and friends so fiercely that I frequently prayed for their safety, for our continued happiness. Belief of some sort seemed the only concept that could contain the intensity of my feelings. I dismissed the idea of a God who created humans, but a God who came from the human spirit (an idea that my parents had introduced to me)—I liked that. God could...
...understandable that people had conflicting thoughts about Schiavo and hesitated to take sides. I relate to those who wanted Schiavo to live because of her family's grief and the belief that she might be helped by advances in medical science. Harder to comprehend was the passion of some who were eager for her death. Without a living will as proof of Schiavo's desires and in light of her parents' willingness to take full responsibility for her, should the life-or-death decision have been left to a husband who had moved on and started a new family? Bonnie...
...important thing to keep in mind is that friendships do tend to ebb and flow. This reality doesn’t mean that you should lose all your remaining hope in the human race and your belief that real friendships last forever. But rather than trying to capture high school relationships in a bubble, you will appreciate those friendships more if you acknowledge that they will change. It is inescapable that different people will grow in different directions. Friendships are inherently evolutionary...
...story that could support the notion that child rearing turns a woman's mind into mush: putting milk in the pantry and cereal in the fridge, losing the thread of a conversation in midsentence, misplacing the car keys for the 10th time. So widespread is the belief that babies make women brainless that when a satirical website released a fake study showing parents lost IQ points when their first child was born, MSNBC picked it up. But Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter and mother of two, doesn't believe in the dumbed-down mom. In her new book...