Word: jesus
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...whom remain alive, still believe to various degrees and are beginning to argue about the meaning of the adventure and the stewardship of its legacy. One early disciple, Sharon Walsh of Colorado, believes the "Away Team" was limited to 39 for numerological reasons: 3 + 9 = 12, the number of Jesus' disciples (also, 1 + 2 = 3, or the Trinity). Walsh's sister was a suicide; she says her mother and stepfather--and she assumes others--remain fervent believers and would have joined the 39 were it not for numerology...
Students from colleges across the Northeast gathered in Sever Hall last night to kick-off Jesus Jam, a celebration of poetry and prayer designed to address the issues faced by black Christian college students...
...preconcert publicity had neglected to mention that a free message accompanied the free music: the message of the Christian gospel. The band proceeded to play a set of Beatles-era rock songs with the lyrics modified to reflect the evangelical mission. "Love me do" became "Love me Jesus...
...liked that Jesus' name was actually being said in a loud voice at Harvard, and that people were listening," she added...
Camped ostentatiously at the impact point of our age's need to believe and its need to know, and generating best sellers both for its fervent proponents and (lately) its detractors, the historical Jesus movement (Flash! Virgin birth a cover-up! Resurrection a fraud!) hardly wants for print. Yet in his Gospel Truth (Riverhead Books; 305 pages; $24.95), Russell Shorto provides a useful addition: an up-to-date survey and smart lay analysis of the theories that together constitute one of the stickiest challenges to traditional Christianity...