Word: christiane
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...fleeting pleasures of today with the promise of eternity: "For what profit is it to a man," he asks, "if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" It is one of the New Testament's hardest teachings, yet generations of churchgoers have understood that being Christian, on some level, means being ready to sacrifice--money, autonomy or even their lives...
...belief has swept beyond its Pentecostal base into more buttoned-down evangelical churches, and even into congregations in the more liberal Mainline. It is taught in hundreds of non-Pentecostal Bible studies. One Pennsylvania Lutheran pastor even made it the basis for a sermon series for Lent, when Christians usually meditate on why Jesus was having His Worst Life Then. Says the Rev. Chappell Temple, a Methodist minister with the dubious distinction of pastoring Houston's other Lakewood Church (Lakewood United Methodist), an hour north of Osteen's: "Prosperity Lite is everywhere in Christian culture. Go into any Christian bookstore...
...these counts, Raúl Castro falls short. Jeremy Lefroy Staffordshire, England Radical Sheik Scott Macleod seems to romanticize Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah [Aug. 21]. Behind his smiling face is a militant radical. Nasrallah and his allies are responsible for ethnic cleansing in South Lebanon. Most of the Christian population has been driven away and replaced by Shi'ite Muslims. Nasrallah is an agent of Iran's policy of destabilization. Will Western democracies allow him to continue that work? David Hillel Tel Aviv President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have...
Jill Carroll, the Christian Science Monitor reporter who was kidnapped in Iraq last year, will be spending this semester at Harvard as a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy...
Carroll was working as a freelance reporter in Baghdad this year when Sunni Muslim insurgents kidnapped her on Jan. 7, according to Carroll’s account in the Christian Science Monitor...