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...bankruptcy trustee, Dennis Shedd, preferred to unload all the PTL remains as a unit. Roberts wanted only the TV network, while Cerullo was willing to offer a total of $52 million for all of Bakker's former empire. There were five other eleventh-hour bidders, including a secular TV-ad broker who offered $8.35 million for the cable operation. But Cerullo is the rightful heir, his lawyer pleaded, because "the men and women who created that partnership were Christians." A court hearing on the non-TV transaction will be held next month...
...does to be a priest," he says. The order itself was the natural choice for a young man who was torn between scholarly interests and an active temperament. Cities, rather than remote monasteries, are Jesuit stamping grounds, and whether as teachers, missionaries or administrators, Jesuits thrive in the secular world...
What exactly is a "moral relativist?" According to these rambunctious rightists, the campus is literally crawling with them. And yet few on the Harvard campus, either on the left or on the right, would actually claim to be one. A very good reason exists for this discrepancy. Like the "secular humanist" who was so much in vogue a few years ago, the moral relativist is a creature called into being by an overzealous right wing in order to lend itself credibility...
Moreover, the great political debates are over. The romance with isms, with the secular religions of socialism, egalitarianism and totalitarianism, is dead. The fierce battles over whether, for example, the U.S. should lead the crusade against communism are finished too. American politics is no longer about bearing any burden in defense of liberty. American politics is about the Clean...
...contentious debate that not only mirrors the deep political divisions among Israelis but also is reminiscent of the intense dialogue that preceded the country's founding in 1948. Back then, Zionists around the world hashed out such fundamental questions as whether Israel should be capitalist or socialist, secular or theocratic...