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...secrets even though they wouldn’t recognize a secret if it bit them in the codpiece. And both actors telegraph their dumb anxiety with skill: their practiced spontaneity doesn’t seem practiced in the least—every laugh line feels unforced, each note of despair feels natural...
...line of fire that is bruising Kerry seem to bounce off Bush? As Kerry's defenders are quick to note, the President had a fairly acrobatic record even before the Condi flip, doubling back on everything from his "humble" foreign policy to steel tariffs, opposing the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance bill and then signing it, calling gay marriage a state issue and then backing a federal ban on it. In fact, the Times poll found, roughly equal numbers of voters see Bush and Kerry as flip-floppers (35% and 38%, respectively). But what matters is not the perception so much...
...Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Southern Seminary, continue to press that point. Pure exemplary theory, he says, "is just an account of one human trying to impress other humans with the moral of self-sacrifice, and that is not the Christian Gospel and never has been." Others note that the theory shortchanges sin and evil, giving the impression that there is nothing wrong with the world that can't be cured by human endeavor...
Although Terrell may have an especially dramatic Christian narrative, her willingness to mix, match or mutate theories of atonement is extremely common. Mark Noll, a professor of Christian thought at Wheaton College in Illinois, notes that "the average Christian, when he says, 'Christ died for my sins,' may mean more than one thing." And Barbara Wheeler, president of New York's Auburn Seminary, asserts that these days "most mainstream theologians recognize more than two possibilities and the importance of balancing and integrating them." Even in the evangelical world, for every Christian like Reagan White Jr.--a Texas Baptist who recently...
...didn't know were following my pregnancy," Hinds recalls. "But I realized this was an opportunity to guide people through the process." One couple from Australia e-mailed to say how rewarding it was to be with someone throughout her entire pregnancy. A woman from the Northeast posted a note about how Hinds helped her and her husband understand what to expect. A woman from Florida related her struggles with infertility. On Aug. 13, 2002, when Caitlin Hinds was born, the baby blog got more than 200 hits. "Blogging gives me a way to get my thoughts out, release...