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...capital, students have scrawled his name in chalk on the doors of their dorm rooms. The entire country appears to be monitoring his progress with a near religious sense of anticipation. "We are all just waiting for Kabila," declares one woman in Kinshasa. "He is like Jesus Christ...
...mockingbirds are chirping in the snow-white blossoms of the pear trees, and the bees are buzzing from one glorious daffodil to another. It is early March, the middle of Lent, and Catholics all over the world are immersed in contemplation and penance over the passion and suffering of Christ. But just outside the chapel where David Burton is teaching a class for new Catholic initiates, on the green grounds of the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, Tennessee, the season seems intent on fast-forwarding beyond late winter and penance right into renewal--to Easter, perhaps. Or perhaps...
...University of Chicago's Marty agrees that heaven has lost none of its potency in what he sees as its primary assignment, as the proof of Romans 8: 35--Nothing shall separate us from the love of Christ. "You turn over to God how that will be expressed in unimagined realms," he says. "We can negotiate everything about the paving, the mapping and the furniture of heaven. I don't know of a church, even a conservative one, where I could get run out for saying the language about pearly gates and golden streets is symbolic. But the love...
...series certainly has no shortage of rerun fodder for such a venture. During its decade on-air, Biography has produced more than 480 episodes, looking at subjects from Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar to Howard Stern and Judy Garland. Each hour (occasional specials air at two hours) moves along economically, dwelling on no single aspect of a person's life but rather cramming in the whole cradle-to-grave (or cradle-to-this-minute) story. While a filmmaker could produce an entire documentary on the subject of, say, Attila the Hun's retreat from Rome, Biography's look...
Perhaps more surprising is that scholars have located Cynicism of this variety in the Gospels. Early Christian missionaries have many affinities with the wandering Cynic, as well, and the "doggy" life is not as far off from the life of Christ-like poverty as one might think...