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...page tomes into an easy-to-read 93 pages. At $9.99, it can be bought in multiple copies for friends, like a literary W.W.J.D. (What Would Jesus Do) bracelet. Wilkinson's editor David Kopp reports two influential boosters: James Dobson and his wife Shirley, who heard Wilkinson preach Jabez on a tape during a long drive. Dobson then featured the book on his immensely influential Focus on the Family radio show. Mark Tauber, a religion-book veteran now at the Beliefnet.com website, notes that Wilkinson's 30 years of preaching Jabez at rallies assures "a built-in audience...
Jerusalem was central to the spiritual identity of Muslims from the very beginning of their faith. When the Prophet Muhammad first began to preach in Mecca in about 612, according to the earliest biographies, which are our primary source of information about him, he had his converts prostrate themselves in prayer in the direction of Jerusalem. They were symbolically reaching out toward the Jewish and Christian God, whom they were committed to worshipping, and turning their back on the paganism of Arabia. Muhammad never believed that he was founding a new religion that canceled out the previous faiths...
...distressed by the way you edited my letter [March 19] on AIDS in Africa. I wrote that the "greater responsibility lies within Africa itself to teach, preach and practice biblical sexuality." The final phrase was changed to "practice safe sex." Between these two is a great gulf. "Safe sex," in Africa at least, is generally sex with a condom but without moral constraints. In fact, as your AIDS report pointed out, condoms rarely get used. "Biblical sexuality," by contrast, speaks of the Judeo-Christian view of sex as belonging in a monogamous, heterosexual relationship and involving abstinence before marriage...
Additionally, attacks that label Fong a hypocrite are shots below the belt that leave the content of his speech unscathed. If we require that we dismiss as incredible everything ascribed to those who do not practice what they preach, we must do away with all esteem for the vast majority of humanity...
...Africa and love this continent fear that this plague could be our undoing unless extensive help reaches us from other countries. Thank you for making that appeal. But as critical as outside help is, especially for the millions of victims, the even greater responsibility lies within Africa to teach, preach and practice safe sex. Unless the AIDS scourge is headed off at its source, namely rampant sexual promiscuity, no TIME special reports or outside help will halt the impending calamity. MICHAEL CASSIDY INTERNATIONAL TEAM LEADER AFRICAN ENTERPRISE Pietermaritzburg, South Africa...