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The liberty that the Band of Brothers fought for was not a freedom to do whatever we want whenever we want, but rather a freedom from tyranny, a freedom of self-determination, a freedom to make something of our lives.

important outcomes from taking the StandOut assessment is simply that you remember your results.

Marcus Borg's book Conflict, Holiness, and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus.

Oberammergau in Bavaria.

5.  One text, though, does speak of a man's "womb" being moved: Genesis 43.30.

Paul is our earliest New Testament author. All of his genuine letters were written before any of the gospels; his earliest ones are from around the year 50, and they predate Mark by about twenty years. Yet Paul says relatively little about the historical Jesus, so he is not a major source.

The conflict among Christians about whether or not Jesus was God is grounded in two different understandings of the Gospels—and the New Testament and the Bible as a whole.

What was going on at the time? What were the circumstances that the author addressed? What did the author's words and allusions mean in their ancient historical and literary setting? Without context, one can imagine that a text means almost anything.

Diana Eck, a professor at Harvard University and director of the Pluralism Project. The title of the book is A New Religious America.

The passion for social justice that we see in the prophets is a protest against systemic evil. Systemic evil is an important notion: it refers to the injustice built into the structures of the system itself.

Thus any and every claim about what a passage of scripture means involves interpretation. There is no such thing as a noninterpretive reading of the Bible, unless our reading consists simply of making sounds in the air. As we read the Bible, then, we should ask not, "What is God saying?" but "What is the ancient author or community saying?"11

theologian Dorothee Soelle, who died in April 2003. It's a book I really commend to you. The main title is The Silent Cry. The subtitle is Mysticism and Resistance. The

John Atkins, the naval surgeon, spoke of the transition from privateer to pirate as going from "plundering for others, to do it for themselves.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.

Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.

Comfort was the author of The Joy of Sex, an illustrated 1972

A genius with the IQ of a moron. GORE VIDAL, ON ANDY WARHOL

Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.

It's always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read anyway.

It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook.