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...like-minded students, eat their meals in a communal dining room and get together for one-on-one spiritual mentoring and small-group Bible study. One women's group is studying Song of Solomon; an all-male group is looking at biblical role models like Abraham, King David and Jesus' disciples...
...same mountain.” I pondered becoming a Jew-dhist when I learned the philosophy of Buddhism later in the year. But I grew uncomfortable when the same class spent just a bit too long discussing the story of “how the Jews killed Jesus.” Religious coexistence, I realized, was never that simple...
...many ways,' DeLorean said in 1980, 'Jesus was an outsider. Some of the really big things in life are achieved by those who refuse to conform. I stood up for what I believed. I'M AN OUTSIDER, AND IN MY OWN SMALL WAY I'M TRYING TO DO SOMETHING.' No one ever accused DeLorean of lacking hubris. But from all the evidence, his life has been less devoted to piety than to speed and glitter. 'I live on adrenaline,' DeLorean said flatly 13 years ago, when he was a golden boy at General Motors ... A few months ago, just when...
From the literalist perspective, Jesus himself makes things pretty clear. When asked which commandment is greatest, he responds (in Matthew 22:37): “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind…the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets...
...Bruce Springsteen album, Devils & Dust, begins inside the head of an unhinged grunt in the Iraqi desert and ends 50 minutes later with the disembodied thoughts of an immigrant corpse floating down the Rio Grande. In between, we hear from hookers, ranchers, ghetto dwellers, boxers, train riders, orphans, a Jesus and two Marias. Some of these lives are sung in bits of Spanish, for which the monolingual can safely substitute any English words that evoke soul-aching weariness...