Word: focusing
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...Before either Christians or Muslims spoke of martyrdom, Jewish communities celebrated those who were willing to "die for God." After Jesus was crucified by the Romans, those who still remained his followers were suspected of treason against Rome, and leaders were executed. The focus on crucifixion has a lot to do with fact that his followers remained in danger of arrest, torture, and execution themselves. Without that I can't imagine that discussions of his suffering and death would have occupied the central place that they do for many Christians...
...Certainly. Many Christians focus more on Jesus' teaching about relationships - loving God and one's neighbor, caring for the sick, the poor, those in prison and destitute - teaching that what God commands is to "love one another." But because it started after Jesus' crucifixion, his followers often have been willing to risk dying for what they see as the sake of the truth. You can see it in the life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr. - his willingness to risk violence and death allowed him to defy those in power and change our society...
...Tuesday, the largest single-day drop in over five years. In one day $632 billion dollars in value was erased from the U.S. stock market. News of the precipitous drop dominated cable news and newspaper coverage. It would be fair to guess that searches leading to news sites would focus on the market correction, perhaps the growing unease in Iran or perhaps the pending collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market. To the contrary, news searches last week were completely dominated by one individual: Antonella Barba...
...executive program’s increased focus on the intersection between business and science comes a year and a half after the Medical and Business Schools began a joint master’s degree program...
...Still, in a first-things-first process, the focus for now remains on getting the North to verifiably dismantle its existing reactor, which has allowed it to build the six to ten bombs the U.S. believes it has. Getting to the point where the alleged uranium program is the only stumbling block to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula would be, by itself, a significant diplomatic victory. But as Hill himself is the first to acknowledge, it's a long way from here to there...