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...Josh" is a new missionary, but not a foolish one. "I would never do anything stupid like blatant preaching on the street or going up to someone I don't know and handing out literature," he says. But at age 24 and after only eight months on the job, he occasionally gets antsy. "I'm impatient by nature," he says, "so maybe expectations are a problem." The son of missions workers with the Pentecostal Assemblies of God denomination, he grew up abroad, but a palm-bedecked Arab capital is his first solo long-term posting. He strolls its working-class...
...broadest theological sense, Josh and other emissaries of Christ are answering Jesus' call in the Gospel According to Matthew, known as the Great Commission: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." Since the Middle Ages, missionaries--revered by some, reviled by others--have been among history's great cross-cultural pollinators...
Studios are speeding to build more car movies and inject car chases into other action films. It's more than a trend; it seems to be a rule. Says Ron Shelton, director and a co-writer of the new Harrison Ford--Josh Hartnett action comedy, Hollywood Homicide: "Car chases have become an obligatory part of the genre for summer movies or cop movies...
...hurricanes out of thin air than these two, and even though most songs clock in at well over seven minutes, they never lose tension or focus. St. Anger will absolutely rock your head, though it would have been nice if it wanted a piece of your brain too. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...induces a pleasant sense of numbness that, given a few drinks, might be mistaken for depth. Everything Must Go doesn't have the relentless catchiness of their late-'70s work, but Fagen and Becker do seem happy in their advancing misery. That's the immortality they share. --By Josh Tyrangiel