Parables and Proverbs
PARABLES AND PROVERBS. Proverbs are brief, memorable sayings that offer ethical direction in specific situations from generation to generation. They are a feature of almost all c...
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The Rev. Hamilton Coe Throckmorton shivered with anticipation as he gazed at the loot — wads of $50 bills piled high beside boxes of crayons in a Sunday school classroom.Cautiously, he locked...
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American author (b. June 22, 1947,
Pasadena, Calif.
—d. Feb. 24, 2006,
Lake Forest Park, Wash.
), was chiefly noted for her science-fiction novels about future societies and superhuman powe...
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The new president and prophet of the Mormon church is in some respects a throwback, an 80-year-old man with a fondness for talking in parables and quoting Charles Dickens.But Thomas S. Monson is al...
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Pope Benedict XVI has decried the spiritual and material "plundering" of Africa by the wealthy in his first book as pontiff, and he says humanity must rediscover how to be good."Jesus of Nazareth,"...
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Dressed in white and spattered in blood, members of the tiny Samaritan sect gathered until the early hours of Tuesday for one of the Holy Land's most colorful religious ceremonies _ the nighttime P...
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Egyptian author (b. Dec. 11, 1911,
Cairo, Egypt
—d. Aug. 30, 2006,
Cairo
), was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, the first Arabic writer to be so honoured.
Mahfouz
wrote mo...
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It's straight out of Psychology 101: "The Bystander Effect," a phenomenon illustrated by the infamous 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese as 38 callous neighbors ignored her screams for help.Except that ...
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Years before he was a soldier seized by Palestinian militants, 11-year-old Gilad Schalit penned a simple parable about how enemies can get along.His story, "When the Shark and the Fish First Met," ...
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Let me welcome the new year by celebrating August Wilson's underestimated, fantastic, risky achievement of Gem of the Ocean (directed with such assurance by Kenny Leon at the Walter Kerr). Any seri...
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Look for Jim Belushi to turn producer/director/movie star — as soon as his strike-crippled industry is allowed to return to work.He wrapped shooting of his "According to Jim" sitcom Friday ni...
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Parables and Proverbs
Ohio congregation lives giving parable
