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Just Jesus: My Struggle to Become Human
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Walter Wink and Steven Berry
deanolson44
, August 05, 2012
Walter Wink has been a powerful New Testament exegete who not only has done scholarly books on the powers and principalities, he also has spent years going out into areas of the country, even the world, to lead bible studies using a unique method where not only the biblical material is honored, but also the individual seeking to be encountered by the power inherent in the text. That as the text comes alive in a new way, the individual so too encounters that which seeks to see the light of day in their own life. His scholarly work on the son of man (literally the son of the man), which is the only reference Jesus uses himself and which the church has never known what to do with it, pointed out that the power of Jesus message was not that we are human, but that we are not human enough. That we as humans need to become more humane. And in his biblical work of the synoptic gospels, he helped bring out what the church has done with Jesus. They have focused on his death and resurrection and the after life. Where the Jesus of the gospels focuses on his life and teachings. The church has made the messenger the message. Walter Wink, for many of us, has awakened scripture and brought many of us back to this spring. His whole life was focused on the meaning and the message of the gospels and the Spirit that evoked them now evoking us deep within our very being. To feel that stirring is to know our soul has been touched. And to experience this is to know something within us seeks to be realized, to come into the light of day. And that the life and teachings of Jesus was the harbinger of this.
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The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11 - And America's Response
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Paul Thompson
deanolson44
, March 28, 2011
Used as basis for excellent DVD, 9/11 The Press for Truth, the Timeline book goes into comprehensive coverage of all the public information available related to 9/11. It seeks to "connect the dots." It's reccommended reading instead of the 9/11 report and continues to add new information as it arises on its internet data base, the terror timeline. The author recounts how he became aware one day that the front page and evening news he was getting differed from back page stories that caught his attention. When he began to look into, he said it was like Alice falling down the rabbit hole. As much as I've read on 9/11 and followed in the news, it was eye opening to see the DVD based on this book. It confirmed a lot of the suspicions I harbored: that the administration lied and covered up about what they knew about 9/11: Ashcroft told to not fly commercial July, 2002; Bush's hotel in Florida on 9/10 protected by mobile anti-aircraft missiles (unusual); 254 generals told not to fly commercial on 9/11....on and on and on. The escape of Osama Bin Laden, the involvement of Pakastani intelligence (ISI) both in the attack and in the evacuation of Bin Laden. I was so upset and mad as it unfolded aspects of the story that up til now had nagged and bothered me. That $100 million was spent on the Monica/Clinton investigation, but reluctantly $3 million allocated for the 9/11 commission (eventually raised to $13 million) and all kinds of constraints and roadblocks put in 9/11 commission's way. Anyone preoccupied with 9/11 or having nagging doubts about our government's lack of transparency, this is a key source. Richard Clark has it as assigned reading for one of his Harvard classes.
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