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...wonder then that the great and the small cite him for inspiration? Martin Luther King Jr. evoked him in his thunderingly prophetic speeches. Only last month several Republican Congressmen grandly compared the fallen Newt Gingrich to the man who led the chosen people out of the desert. Movie directors have immortalized him, most famously as a bewigged Charlton Heston throwing down the tablets in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments ... What we choose to dwell on in the story of Moses says as much about our dreams and fears as it does about Scripture. Eugene Rivers, a Pentecostal minister...
...earth shall bless themselves by you." Abraham would appear ill suited to the job. To make a nation, one must have an heir, and he is a childless 75-year-old whose wife Sarah is past menopause. Yet he complies, and he and Sarah set off for a desert hinterland--Canaan--and a new spiritual epoch...
...fathers a boy, Ishmael. Yet God insists that Sarah will conceive, and in a wonder confirming Abraham's faith, she bears his second son, Isaac. Jealous of Hagar's and Ishmael's competing claims on her husband and his legacy, Sarah persuades Abraham to send them out into the desert. God saves the duo and promises Hagar that Ishmael will sire a great nation through 12 sons (assumed by tradition to be 12 Arab tribes). But he stipulates that the Covenant will flow only through Isaac's line...
...Amman Road Runners, a band of Jordanians and expats with a masochistic love of endurance running, devised the ultimate challenge: a race to the lowest point on earth. The 50-km Dead Sea Ultra Marathon begins at an elevation of 900 m and plunges through the desert to finish 400 m below sea level at the Dead Sea. Nearly 600 hardy souls are expected to compete in this year's run on Oct. 18. This official website has all the latest details as well as online registration for those not content just to float on the Dead...
...DESERT SORTIE Ever since he united feuding Arab tribes to record a string of glorious victories against the Turks in World War I, British officer T.E. Lawrence has been the stuff of romantic legend. Somewhat academic, the website clears up, through an FAQ approach, some misconceptions about this controversial figure. Links and news of coming events make this a one-stop resource for Lawrence buffs...