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This Is Why Jesus Wept
Of all the qualities that the New Testament ascribes to God, compassion is among the most shocking. Compassion has nothing to do with power, with immortality or with immutability, which is what many people think of when they contemplate God’s ...
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Easter Rebukes the Christian Will to Power
On Easter Sunday, billions of Christians gather together to celebrate the event that’s indispensable to the Christian faith — the resurrection of Jesus Christ. As the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, without the resurrection our faith is ...
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For Easter, the Strangest Story Ever Told
In the not-so-distant past where 90 or 95 percent of Americans identified as Christian, it was hard for almost anyone in that vast majority to read the Christian gospels naïvely — to come to them without preconceptions, in the way of their original ...
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Jesus Alou, Youngest in Trio of Baseball-Playing Brothers, Dies at 80
He and his brothers, Felipe and Matty, were the only three brothers in major league history to play together in a single game.
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Business
What is ‘He Gets Us’?
Between the chip ads, beer stunts and celebrity cameos, two ads with a different kind of message are appearing during the Super Bowl: spots for the “He Gets Us” campaign promoting Jesus Christ. The 30- and 60-second spots are part of a multimillion ...
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A Christmas Conversation About Christ
“Jesus loves New York Times readers, too.”
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Why Jesus Loved Friendship
The enduring significance of Christmas is that it represents perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Christian faith — the concept of the incarnation, the belief that God took human form in Jesus. Theologians refer to the “hypostatic union” of ...
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Jesus Christ, Streaming Star
MIDLOTHIAN, Texas — In the biblical account of the miracle of the loaves and fishes, Jesus uses two fish and five loaves of bread to feed a large ...