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...last, she told reporters she finally felt "completely free." Her words seemed an appropriate epitaph for the complex Thurmond, who later became the first Southern Senator to hire a black staff member, and for an era in which attitudes about race were marked by ambiguity and often hypocrisy. --By Matthew Cooper...
...might think of them as lost Christianities if you're a religious liberal or as early heresies if you're a conservative--have been experiencing a resurrection of their own. Their renaissance is unlikely to reinstate them in the exalted company of the canonical New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But it fills a perceived need for alternative views of the Christ story on the part of New Age seekers and of mainline believers uncomfortable with some of their faith's theological restrictions. This yearning is transforming the once obscure texts into objects of popular discourse. Their...
Most scholars believe that the majority of the lost Gospels were written decades and in some cases centuries after Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But a minority think one of the long-abandoned texts, the Gospel of Thomas, was very much on the mind of John's author when he sat down to write in about...
Children who want to actively commune with their books are better off with the endearing Tails, written by Matthew van Fleet and designed to be indestructible. Its pull tabs are thick, and its sturdy pages--filled with textured examples of such animal tails as a colorful peacock's--are meant to be touched...
...year--the familiar details seem etched on the heart. Yet they have been questioned by liberal scholars for years. Though often believers themselves, these scriptural experts have challenged nearly everything in the Nativity story: the angels, the star, even the wise men. As recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, the only one to mention them, the Magi are not the familiar three kings of Christmas legend (later piety gave them names, ages, races and crowns), but rather an unspecified number of astrologers, perhaps from Babylon. Even in that guise, some critics suggest, their existence is questionable, possibly merely a preaching...