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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...
...Lawrence College, Pusey, a devout Episcopalian, had overseen monthly mandatory student convocations, often of a religious nature...
...sets, just the floor outline of the town's homes and stores, with empty door frames that slam after people have walked through them. It's a great notion for about 10 minutes, but not for the movie's current running (ambling) time of three hours. Despite the devout exertions of Kidman and a fine cast, Dogville plays like the read-through of a potentially fascinating play. Now Von Trier should go ahead and make the movie. Elephant is a loose remake of Alan Clarke's 1989 bbc film about gunmen in Belfast. Van Sant takes the notion of civilians...
...DIED. IRENE GUT OPDYKE, 81, Polish-born author whose 1999 memoir, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, told how she saved the lives of 12 Jews during World War II by becoming the mistress of a 70-year old German officer; in California. Opdyke-a devout Catholic-later said, "It was a small price to pay." In 1982 she was recognized by the Holocaust memorial in Israel as "Righteous Among the Nations," the highest honor awarded to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews...
...first nonviolent force for change this island has ever known," he told Time. "Castro can't crush that, no matter how hard he tries." Cuba's communist regime has rarely if ever faced a dissident who is as hardheaded as Castro himself. Payá, an engineer and devout Roman Catholic who cycles each day to his job as a hospital-equipment repairman, is right when he calls the MCL Cuba's first real dissident force in 44 years - the first, anyway, to convince tens of thousands of Cubans to forget their fear and sign petitions seeking a referendum on democratic...