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...himself challenged, he was bound to destroy the challenger." The next emperor, Salisbury predicts, will probably be as pragmatic as Deng. But like Deng he will hold tightly to power and will be ready to order China, as emperors did in dynasties past, "Obey -- and tremble...
...believe that the development of the self-understanding of the people of Christ in history has required a continual reexamination of Christian traditions. Just as most contemporary Christians have revisited the treatment of women (recognizing that St. Paul's requirement that women unconditionally obey their husbands and cover their heads in church reflected a particular cultural moment that has passed) and just as almost all Christians radically oppose St. Paul's tolerance for slavery, which was in keeping with his times, so, we believe, the very few observations in the Old and New Testaments that appear to condemn that what...
Those who were innocent of any creative financial activity rushed to clear their names in a nasty spectacle of finger pointing. Some asked for letters stating they had never committed any offense or for some official vindication. That turned out to be a bad idea for Democrat David Obey of Wisconsin, who demanded that Foley release a list of delinquent members in the hope that his name would be cleared. Instead, Obey discovered he too had bounced several checks for small amounts during a 12-day period...
Last week both the Democrats and the Israeli lobby fell silent, tacitly acknowledging they were outgunned. The lobbyists were almost nowhere in sight, with some confessing to friends like Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman David Obey, "The President has all the cards." Said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles: "The campaign is gone. No one is going to take on the President of the United States...
...already have it, actually, in that whenever I ordain or a bishop ordains, we read out the statements "Do you believe that the Bible contains all things necessary for salvation? Will you accept the doctrine of the Church of England? Will you obey the bishop?" And so on. People know they are actually going along with the whole package, which includes the trustworthiness of the Bible, its centrality in terms of authority and tradition and reason. So we can't really pick and choose...