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What are the basic Mennonite beliefs and practices now? The Mennonites are a Protestant group. They believe in adult baptism, and they have this long history of political protest of war. They have several hundred years of being conscientious objectors. But I think what a lot of people would say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhoda Janzen: From Modern to Mennonite | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

The plight of the Israelites resonated with the earliest American settlers. For centuries, the Catholic Church had banned the direct reading of Scripture. But the Protestant Reformation, combined with the printing press, brought vernacular Bibles to everyday readers. What Protestants discovered was a narrative that reminded them of their sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Moses Shaped America | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

In October of 1975, 17-year-old Alistair Little, approached the window of the Griffin family household and shot 19-year-old Jim Griffin three times. Jim’s younger brother, Joe, frozen by the sight of the gun in the masked man’s hand, stood in...

Author: By Jack G. Clayton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Five Minutes of Heaven | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Your childhood in Scotland sounded very dreary and sort of Oliver Twist-y. You say that kids formed gangs based on whether they were Protestant or Catholic. Basically, teenagers fought each other over obscure 17th century religious issues. Did they have any idea what they were fighting about? No, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Late Night Host Craig Ferguson | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

Do you have any hope that the recession will jolt Americans out of this funk? I think it's profoundly deeper than greed. I don't think it's hugely surprising that people who go into investment banking are greedy. People who went into investment banking in the '20s weren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Hate Us | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

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