Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Christians and Muslims alike--have venerated the Jordan River. So much so that "crossing over Jordan" has become a mystical metaphor for liberation and resurrection. These days, it's the river itself that could use some resurrecting. Instead of a mighty torrent "deep and wide," as the gospel songs proclaim, much of the river is a thin rivulet of brown slime largely obscured by reeds. Most of what now flows in between the Jordan's banks is human sewage, almost all of it untreated. The river where John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus to be the Messiah, a river so sacred...
...since April, when he released a Web ad in which he pledged to run the campaign as "an argument among friends." That ad was watched on YouTube a measly 3,000 times over three months. Hardly anyone noticed when McCain launched a bio tour during the Democratic primaries to proclaim his devotion to service. When McCain visited the black belt of Alabama to burnish his bipartisan credentials, network news barely covered...
...selling vegetables from his food garden outside the capital, Port Moresby. But, says the volunteer youth worker, he never gave up hope: "Jesus said, 'Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it.' Before I came here I said, 'Help me to go, God, so I can proclaim your Word. And He did it for me. I came here...
...Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn [June 9]. If this association exposes Obama as a radical or "a man with terrible judgment," Kinsley writes, then the same could be said of many respectable people who have also not shied away from Ayers and Dohrn. But none on that "respectable list" proclaim their superior judgment, as Obama does. More importantly, they are not running for President. Jonathan Karsh, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania...
...French critics. "You still go to Woody Allen films?" asked Michel in mock or mocking surprise. He was just setting us up for a pronouncement: that whatever Allen's current reputation, years from now people will take a retrospective look at the 40 - some films he's made and proclaim him as part of a holy trinity of movie comedy with Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder...