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Exegetes like Eden Theological Seminary's Patterson think the angel's birth announcement embodies the hope that Jesus' coming kingdom will turn political as well as religious worlds upside down. "Luke can't be saying anything other than 'You think you have a son of God in Augustus?'" he says. "'You think you have a savior in the Emperor? It's all foolishness. If you want to know the peace of God, not the Pax Romana, you have to look somewhere else.'" Since the '60s, such readings have inspired Christian social activists from civil rights preachers to Catholic liberation theologians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Behind The First Noel | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...story of Ella Lynch, a lovely, lusty young Irishwoman who in 1854 meets and arouses the ardor of Francisco Solano Lopez, the cruel and debauched son of the dictator of Paraguay. Francisco--"Franco" to his friends and numerous enemies--spirits Ella off to his homeland, a half-savage tropical Eden complete with snakes and crocodiles and cannibals, oh my, where they live in conspicuous luxury until Franco (who is, like Ella, an actual historical figure) leads the country into a disastrous war with Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Deserved to Win, the Other ... | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...Evangelist, I try to address how the Bible speaks to personal and societal problems. I will probably mention all those issues and more in my upcoming crusade sermons. The big issue is sin. From the very beginning, man rebelled against God in the Garden of Eden and that has been inherited by the entire human race. It's a problem all over the world and in our own hearts. That's why the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the answer to sin, because when he died on the Cross, he took the sins of the world upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Billy Graham | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

Though he’s clearly the driving force behind the group, Wareham is hardly a tyrant. This is two-guitar music, and both guitarists, Wareham and Sean Eden, were given plentiful opportunity to shine throughout the set. Eden even stepped to the microphone for “Broken Chair,” revealing himself as a more than able vocalist while giving Wareham a chance to rest his uniquely nasal voice...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Luna’s Light Finally Dims | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...then there’s Dave Watters, a skinny 205 pounds at 6’4, who was named the offensive MVP of his team at Eden Prairie High School in Minnesota...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Newcomers: Who’s Next in Line? | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

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