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...Wehner--a devout Evangelical--wrote a courageous Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post that began with a question: "During His ministry, Christ spoke out most often about (a) the evils of homosexuality, (b) the merits of democracy, (c) family-friendly tax cuts or (d) the danger of riches? It turns out Christ said nothing about the first three and a lot about the last one. But you would never know it based on the rhetoric of many modern-day Christians--particularly politically active ones." Wehner recounted some of the most famous New Testament parables in which Jesus castigates...
HRCF’s constitution states: “Officers of this organization must subscribe without reserve to…principles of faith” that include belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the existence of the Holy Spirit...
...diverse as Cornel West and Keanu Reeves have testified to the range of the Wachowskis' erudition and their devotion to high-minded subtextual references in their action movies. Witness is also prepared to admit that Neo, the character Reeves plays in The Matrix Reloaded, may very well be a Christ figure, devoting himself to the redemption of a humanity so far fallen that what remains of it lives scuzzily in caves near the center of the earth (the air-conditioning bill must be horrendous...
...months after I lost a fight to Jimmy Young in Puerto Rico and three years after I lost the heavyweight title to Muhammad Ali, I suddenly found that I couldn't talk enough. I had become a regular at the Church of Jesus Christ in Houston, and I was rising at every opportunity to give my testimony...
When I attended, the preacher would announce, "The former heavyweight champion of the world George Foreman wants to tell you how he met Jesus Christ." I would get up and tell my story, and they would applaud and cry hallelujah. Mostly, they just gawked. "Oh, he's tall," they would say. Or, "He's got muscles." I felt like a sideshow...