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...Club dominated the evangelical remote. But that program has faded and Grady says the Christian TV market is almost as fragmented as the Republican field. The largest network, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, airs several of the more popular Charismatic televangelists. But Grady suspects TBN's Praise the Lord talk/variety program will probably forgo candidate appearances: not only because the religious right is split on which horse to back, but because a significant proportion of TBN's viewers are African-American Pentecostals, some of whom favor Barack Obama. The most influential evangelical radio show is Dr. James Dobson's Focus...
...reappearance in the New Testament. I was able to share my take on the origins of the law, since it’s a reminder of when Abraham, the founder of Judaism, gave up his occupation as a maker of idols and swore to worship the one Hebrew Lord. The guys in the group explained to me the context of Christian interpretation of the law. But I felt most at home when we started discussing how these passages were applicable to our daily lives. As an intense literature-nerd, this kind of analysis was very familiar. When I was reading...
...French clocks and Georgian furniture, Keating was the most cultivated Australian ever to serve as Prime Minister. The movement's chief unelected backer was a formidable young merchant banker named Malcolm Turnbull. (Full disclosure obliges me to say that Turnbull is married to my niece Lucy, herself the deputy lord mayor of Sydney.) Despite Keating's defeat in the 1996 elections, Turnbull and his fellow republicans were able to bring the republic issue to a nationwide vote...
...second-favorite book, “Pride and Prejudice” (Harvard’s #4), and thinks about how much he enjoyed reading “Lolita,” “Crime and Punishment,” and “Lord of the Rings” (none of which made Harvard’s list). He is 20 percent liberal, three percent conservative, and 17 percent of him is in a relationship, a statistic that has been hard to explain to the other person involved. He goes to his computer, where he has been actively following...
...ground and her lips and ears viciously sliced off by rebels in northern Uganda. But 70-year old Abonyo is in a forgiving mood. She attended a steamy, overcrowded town-hall meeting to see, on better terms this time, one of the world's most terrifying rebel groups, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). After a dialogue, she went over to shake the hand of a former LRA fighter. He held her hand, but refused to have his picture taken with the disfigured woman. "I will still forgive," Abonyo explains. "They are embarrassed of what they have done...