Word: repents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...HIV/AIDS, a brave move in a community where it was still often stigmatized. In Africa with her nine months later, he says, he heard a message from above. "God said, 'You don't care squat about the sick and the poor. And you need to change; you need to repent.'" He became fond of repeating that the Bible has 2,000 verses dedicated to the poor and that the Gospel of Matthew contains not only the Great Commission, in which Christ bids his disciples to spread his word, but also the great commandment, in which he tells the Pharisees...
...city of more than 1 million people. It cost Gwat another $50 to customize his vehicle: Its right and left side mirrors are painted with the words "Jesus" and "je t'aime" respectively, and across the rear window and fender is a proselytizing message to other drivers: "Time to Repent," and "Jesus Will Forgive." Gwat believes Jesus has helped him, too. Since he struck out on his own, his income has more than tripled, and on some days he can pull in about $20 - a relative fortune by measure of Cameroon's average daily wage...
...environment and believing himself powerful enough to even stop time itself, the Ruler freezes every clock in the house at the minute she dared broach the subject to him. But like all subjects under totalitarian regimes, she remains sovereign over her own spirit, and her refusal to repent is a silent but powerful protest. To the Ruler, “her tears had become the battleground of their wills.” With passages such as this, Thiong’o constructs a moving portrait of resistance to unfeeling despotism. Juxtaposed next to the story of the Ruler is that...
...What was most striking about the whole interaction was neither the doggedness of Repent America nor the humorous antagonism of the crowd. (At one point, Borat showed up and agreed that “The homosexuals, they wear blue hats, they must be execute.”) It was how concerned everyone seemed. Eric and his cohorts stayed for the full two hours debating with the man on the stepladder. I asked the man holding the less-offensive sign (John 14:6) what they hoped to accomplish by talking to a crowd of inebriated people in costume...
...both sides, there was an undercurrent of terror beneath the indignation. Repenting and accepting Jesus as my lord and savior is on my To-Do list somewhere between “Pick up your dry cleaning” and “Win a Nobel Peace Prize.” But when I run into groups like Repent America, I start rethinking my life. “Things do not exist simply because you do or do not believe in them,” Nathan said. “If you don’t believe in trucks, that won?...