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BLOOD VESSELS
By
Ben Witherington
BLOOD VESSELS ‘In Principio erat Verbum’ Chalice, CupGrail GobletWaiting Wine Glass—Blood Vessels. Plate,PatinWafer, MorselBeckoning Bread Basket–Table Service. Mere morselsOr Bare Body?Uncommon CupOr Challenging Chalice? From SacrificeTo SacramentFrom Sign to SymbolFrom Servant to ServiceGrace Comes a Calling Blood ShedBlood TransfusionHis ExtinctionOur DistinctionBy Intinction. ‘You are what you Eat’ ————
IT’S A CERTAINTY– ‘DOUBT’ IS OSCAR WORTHY
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Ben Witherington
It is sometimes difficult to bring an excellent play to the big screen, but John Patrick Stanley has successfully brought both his Pulitzer Prize winning writing skills and his Tony Award for this story to the big screen, with an Oscar worthy cast– Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams to name the principals.…
Love’s Labor’s Won
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Ben Witherington
How do you measure a human heart?By beats and chambers four?By calculating capacity,Or do you look for more? Do you follow the EgyptiansPlacing hearts upon a scale?The ones that were the heaviestWere those beyond the pale. Or should we think like HebrewsWho saw within the heartThe locus of thought, feeling, willThe place where ‘souls’ start?…
A CHRISTIAN WHO THINKS ATHEISM IS UNAMERICAN
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Ben Witherington
And from the other end of the spectrum comes the story of a Baptist minister and his legal travails as he tries to inject God back into the public sphere. See what you think. BW3 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/us/04louisville.html?th&emc=th
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