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Were you surprised at how you came to be part of the evangelical world? It's very easy to roll your eyes at the whole culture if you don't have any stake in anyone participating in it. Once I developed friendships with people whom I cared about, it was easier for me to see the appeal. It's no accident that evangelical Christianity is as popular as it is. I even came to enjoy listening to sermons from Jerry Falwell, whose politics I was [initially] allergic to. The emotional, intoxicating experience of being at church and hearing that music...
...have any misconceptions that got reversed? Evangelism seemed invasive to me. I thought of it as an imperialistic arrogance - that they wanted to overpower people. My experience with evangelism was something very different. They felt that they could do something about the eternal suffering of others. I came to see evangelism instead as a kind of empathy. That made me feel like there was something in it I could respect. (See the top 10 Jesus films of all time...
...Nepal's King Birendra to introduce multiparty democracy into the Himalayan kingdom. Elections then catapulted Koirala and his Nepali Congress Party into power in 1991. But the subsequent years would be tumultuous ones, as a Maoist rebellion ravaged Nepal, leading to thousands of deaths. Power struggles and factional demagoguery came to define Kathmandu politics...
...watch in an instant. Forty-five minutes after ordering the director's cut of Donnie Darko, I gave up and went to sleep, letting that movie and Dune (yes, I'm a geek) download throughout the night. But you know what? After the dark night passed, joy came in the morning. Me and my iPad are off to celebrate Easter...
...Crimson came back with three runs in the top of the fourth. Sophomore Jane Alexander sparked the rally with a double to left center, moving freshman pinch runner Ashley Heritage to third. Senior Jessica Pledger plated Heritage, and freshman Jess Ferri brought Alexander around with a double to center...