Stallings Campaign Targets White Depictions of Jesus

The Washington Post;  April 10, 1993 ;     700+ words ......Stallings Jr. gathered a crowd in Washington's Freedom...flame to an image of Jesus. "Burn the lie. Burn...cheering, mostly black crowd of more than 500...n't tamper with your Jesus?" Stallings is not...stepped from the crowd in Freedom Plaza...framed pictures of Jesus looking more ...

Pursue Jesus by not judging others; Learning to throw the first stone...

The Washington Times;  January 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......1 and 2, we read Jesus returned to the Mount...at the temple. A crowd soon gathered and...her in front of the crowd. So Jesus is teaching in the temple, there's a crowd all around, the religious...to everyone - the crowd, the religious leaders...been very easy for Jesus to ...

Jesus feeds four thousand; Reflections Today.(Opinion/Editorial)

Manila Bulletin;  December 5, 2001 ;     438 words ...Matthew 15:29-37 JESUS walked by the Sea of Galilee...glorified the God of Israel. Jesus summoned His disciples and...is moved with pity for the crowd, for they have been with Me...place to satisfy such a crowd? Jesus said to them, How many loaves...a few fish. He ordered the crowd to ...

Monday of Holy Week: The anointing of Jesus.(Opinion & Editorial)

Manila Bulletin;  April 13, 2003 ;     355 words ......have always with you.'' The portrayal of the anointing of Jesus in the gospel of John presents each element of the drama as completely under the control of Jesus. The Jewish plot to eliminate Jesus is about to be sprung, but nothing happens without the awareness and assent of Jesus. The narrative ...

Why is Jesus Man and Master?(Consider This)

Manila Bulletin;  April 12, 2006 ;     665 words ......history to understand and sympathize with the healings of Jesus as they are reported in the Gospels. They are miraculous...treatment if we ask first: Did they really happen? * * * Then, Jesus as Teacher. The fact that Jesus chose teaching for His lifework should impress us more...that all of us take part ...

The Gospel according to Greeley: Jesus was a hunk

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of biblical culture. "Did these women who traveled with Jesus find him sexually attractive?" he asks. "How could they...cooking and who cleaned up afterward?" He also says that Jesus never denounced women. But in Scripture, Jesus doesn't always seem nice to his mother. One story depicts Jesus ...

He's Everywhere but Here; ABC's 'Search for Jesus' Turns Up a Peter, but...

The Washington Post;  June 26, 2000 ;     700+ words ......scholar huffs, and that's supposed to dispel that detail. Jesus may not even have been born in Jerusalem but rather in...is content with "analysis" of the most innocuous sort. Jesus "must have been a controversial figure" in his own time...kidding. But mostly we get specious debunkery. Stories of Jesus ...

DISCIPLES OF JESUS PROFILED BY FAITHFUL.(TRIAD)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  March 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The Easter story on this Sunday's front page explores what Jesus' earthly ministry would look like in 2005 - if He were born here 30 years ago. I talked to people of faith: I fancy Jesus would be born in Gibsonville - perhaps raised in Snow Camp...intensely serious. The package on Sunday includes a mosaic of ...

Jesus is not an historical figure but a sacred hero Historical Notes

The Independent - London;  November 11, 1999 ;     616 words ...WHEN JESUS was being crucified, his favourite disciple, John, could...refuge in a cave and wept. Then, in the darkness of the cave, Jesus appeared to John. And Jesus told John that the crowd around the cross below them in Jerusalem were ignorant. They thought that it was Jesus himself who was ...

Jesus, as man, was sexual being

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 9, 1986 ;     700+ words ......abrupt halt. The point is rather that the sexuality of Jesus was not turned into a vestigal emotion because of his special...appropriate behavior. Sublimated, if you will, but not repressed. Jesus sinful? Of course not, Jesus sexual? One is horrified at the thought only if sexuality is a sin or ...

THE TRUE HORROR IN THE DEATH OF JESUS

The Boston Globe;  April 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......GIBSON HAS PRODUCED AND DIRECTED A MOVIE ABOUT THE DEATH OF JESUS. CALLED "THE PASSION," IT IS SCHEDULED TO BE RELEASED NEXT...THE CRUCIFIXION, BUT NO MATTER HOW GROTESQUE THE MURDER OF JESUS WAS, ITS "TRUE HORROR" LIES IN THE WAY THIS EVENT BECAME...faithful repetition of the Gospel stories of the death of ...

Who really killed Jesus?(Biography)

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......against Jews--that they were responsible for the death of Jesus and must bear that guilt forever--has been raised once more. So, did the Jews sentence Jesus to death or did the Romans? In answering that question...Testament narratives of the Passion, from the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday ...

THIS WEEK'S ``WALK WITH JESUS'' IS AS EVENTFUL AS THE FIRST ONE.(SUFFOLK...

The Virginian Pilot;  April 9, 1998 ;     700+ words ......now ``walking with Jesus'' is to his exaltation. First, Jesus descended into hell to proclaim his conquest of Satan and all his powers. Then, on the third day - Easter - Jesus came forth from the tomb and showed himself alive and the victor over death and hell. That Jesus Christ did rise bodily ...

Who Really Killed Jesus?

Skeptic;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......against Jews-that they were responsible for the death of Jesus and must bear that guilt forever-has been raised once more. So, did the Jews sentence Jesus to death or did the Romans? In answering that question...Testament narratives of the Passion, from the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to ...

Feeling lost in the crowd? Cling to the hope of Jesus.(Neighbor)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  October 12, 2002 ;     384 words ......I was the one lost in the crowd. Then out of the corner of...Needless to say, we left that crowd promptly. The Bible mentions...she heard of the arrival of Jesus she knew if she could just...would be healed. But, a large crowd pressed around him, and she...feel like we are lost in the crowd ...