Word: christiane
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...course. The rioting French Muslims were largely poor, unemployed immigrants or the children of immigrants, familiar with anti-Arab stigma and no doubt aware that the number of fellow-believers in the French Assembly could be counted on one hand - with fingers left over. By contrast, the American Christians who responded "Christian first" are probably employed and ethnically unalienated (to put it politely). Far from being disenfranchised, they are an increasingly powerful voting bloc who - when they wanted to see their views better represented - elected and then re-elected a President...
...Well, that was then... But where, I asked, might a contemporary Christian's interest diverge from an American's? "By God's providence," Mohler said, "we are not to the point where we have to debate the legitimacy of the regime. We are not yet in the position of the confessing church in the Nazi regime." Not yet?!? "There are some tension points," Mohler replied, "... with the structure of law having to do with issues like abortion and marriage. I can foresee the day when Christians would have to constitute an adversary culture...
...East and West now meet each other. In response, readers shared tales of travel, thoughts on ideas that changed the world and meditations about noodles Paul Smethurst's essay "A revolutionary from Venice" [Aug. 7] pointed out that, before Marco Polo shed some light on the subject, the Western (Christian) world's geographic and political center had been Jerusalem. That reminded me of Copernicus' famous assertion that the sun, not Earth, is at the center of the heavens. Both discoveries were important milestones for mankind because they led us to embrace hitherto unimaginable and unfathomable ideas. James Louis Ndirangu Nairobi...
...Kentucky. The only leader the state party has had for more than a decade is McConnell, who telegraphed the 1994 national Republican rout in his home state. In a special election that spring, McConnell convinced Newt Gingrich to throw the national party's weight behind Ron Lewis, an unknown Christian bookstore owner, who stunned bluegrass politicos by taking the U.S. House seat held for 41 years by Democrat Bill Natcher. (Natcher had died while in office, creating an open seat, which Lewis won by beating a long-time Democratic leader of the State Senate...
...famine that killed thousands, he set up and operated a small noodle factory there. But he soon decided "he wanted to help in a more direct way," his daughter Grace says, and by the late 90s became involved in the loose network of people-some affiliated with Christian churches in South Korea, Europe and the U.S.-who try to bring North Koreans out via China...