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...They expected me to learn a trade or learn something to get a specific job," Terriquez says of her parents. "They saw college as a specific trade school, like, 'Learn to be a lawyer.' They don't grasp the concept that sociology...
...nice assumption people make, that I'm in the same boat with them, in that people aren't overtly conscious when they talk to me," Tserotas says. "But very few people realize how much money my parents make, and those who do can't grasp...
...group "said the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was not essential to the faith; and that, in fact, the Resurrection may not have occurred at all." In my view, your readership is ill served by the inability to understand the difference between these statements. I find that most readers do grasp this distinction quite easily, and many appreciate and welcome the insight, believers and non-believers alike. (THE REV.) EDWARD F. BEUTNER Fellow, Jesus Seminar Livermore, California Via E-mail...
What we could take away from the grievous events is a grasp not of the Unabomber's psychology but of our own, which is full of fantasies. The Unabomber had hoped to move against technology--which does need slowing down--but he did it from a hidden place. That annulled the act. Oddly enough, his isolation as he fought technology is comparable to the isolation that surrounds the people who are consumed by technology. It's possible that the men and women who give themselves to technology as the ultimate solution are living out a fantasy as deep...
...major religious journalism honors (including the prestigious Templeton Award). Nothing stirs up passions like Bible scholarship, he adds, which makes this week's cover story about Jesus particularly tricky--and timely. "Ignorance among younger Americans is so sweeping," says Ostling, "that our culture is in danger of losing its grasp of the one book in human history that any truly educated person must know intimately...