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...only problem is that it turns out that she wasn't bad, just interpreted that way. Mary Magdalene (her name refers to Magdala, a city in Galilee) first appears in the Gospel of Luke as one of several apparently wealthy women Jesus cures of possession (seven demons are cast from her), who join him and the Apostles and "provided for them out of their means." Her name does not come up again until the Crucifixion, which she and other women witness from the foot of the Cross, the male disciples having fled. On Easter Sunday morning, she visits Jesus' sepulcher...
...that even as hordes of angry Liberians dumped dead bodies at the gates of the U.S. embassy in Monrovia in a desperate plea for American help last week, Taylor held a state funeral for his beloved mother, who died of natural causes, complete with a military band and gospel choir...
...Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane?" Unsurprisingly, she concludes the former is worse, and singles out the Governor, a minister who had become a politician, as an example. "The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color...
...that the 117-min., reverently competent Jesus is, after the Bible, among the foremost Christian evangelistic tools in Muslim countries is to downplay its reach. Considered something of a pious oddity at its 1979 commercial release in the U.S., the celluloid adaptation of Luke's Gospel has been translated into more than 830 languages and screened in every country on Earth...
...York Times called Jesus "little more than an illustrated Gospel." But Bright saw it as a sturdy evangelistic aid for people whose illiteracy ruled out the written word and--in some remote outposts--might never have seen a film before. The efforts to dub the film, syllable by syllable, into languages from Adangme (spoken in Ghana) to Zhuang (spoken in China) are legendary, as are the heroics of three-person teams that took it to five continents, running projectors with old car batteries or screening it on bedsheets--and the miraculous healings that, by team members' accounts, attended some showings...