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Eric Cale runs the city's historical museum - appropriately, given that his family has been here almost from the founding of Wichita in 1863. Searching for the right word to explain his town, Cale settles on "remote" - both in geography and in mood - then adds "circumspect." Pam Siddall understands. When she arrived last year to take charge of the local newspaper, the Alabama native asked around for a good church. She was amazed to find that Wichitans prefer not to talk about such personal matters...
Laodicean adj.--The word spelled by 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar to win the 2009 Scripps National Spelling...
USAGE: "The eighth-grader won $40,000 in cash and prizes for nailing the final word--which means lukewarm or indifferent, particularly in matters of politics or religion...
Muhammad's preaching career started in Mecca around 613 C.E., and he seems to have had hopes of drawing Jews and Christians into a common faith. In the Koran - which Muslims consider the word of God as spoken by Muhammad - the Prophet's followers are told to say to fellow Abrahamics, "Our God and your...
...Christians: having denounced polytheists who believed Allah had daughters, Muhammad couldn't now embrace the idea that Jesus was God's son. But he came close. He said Jesus was "the Messiah ... the Messenger of God, and His Word ... a Spirit from Him." God, according to the Koran, gave Jesus the Gospel and "put into the hearts of those who followed him kindness and compassion...