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Jay Parini
Jay Parini
American Writer
Born: Apr 2, 1948
About American Great Jesus Think Time
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning. Jay Parini
You Yourself People Treat Language Think Way Civil Part Demeaning Like Most Plain Meaning Means Using Treated
The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century. Jay Parini
Invention Possession Poems Most Dazzling Diaries Century Aspect Letters
A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight. Jay Parini
Time Every Possession Inspection Delight Writer Tour Device Come Opens Force Because Without Narrative Fiction Certainly English Moment Whose
It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century. Jay Parini
Great Man Language Young Alexander Some Seems More Scholarly Spoke Likely Learned Dominated Greek Being After Hebrew Young Man Region Century Conjecture Jesus Fourth
The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels. Jay Parini
Life Language About Mainly Gospels Were Greek Stories Teachings Original Jesus
Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek. Jay Parini
Philip Seems Most Likely Disciples Least Greek Bilingual Among Jesus
I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world. Jay Parini
Truth Religion World Secular Practice Think Kind Emotional Discover Psychological Available
The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries. Jay Parini
Made Relevant Message Him Centuries Twenty Jesus Core
Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear. Jay Parini
Year Spring Books Television Television Shows Easter Magazine About Wednesday Articles Begins Which Lent Appear Shows Each Season Each Year Jesus Early
Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt. Jay Parini
Faith Looking Doubt Fragment John Distrust Some Cross Excitement True Supposedly Box Always Burial James Baptist Whether Shroud Belonging Bones
American failures in Vietnam and Iraq suggest that it's not really possible to create and sustain a proxy government in a country far from our own borders. Jay Parini
Government Country Own Our Possible Borders Failures Iraq American Sustain Far Create Really Vietnam Suggest
Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy. Jay Parini
World Poverty Course Fantasy
Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century. Jay Parini
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Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra. Jay Parini
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'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998. Jay Parini
Big Distorted High Entertaining Bestseller Bag Rode Wonderfully Lists Novel Bones
Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so. Jay Parini
History Somebody Indeed Constructed Facts Arrange Blocks Been Forget Where Which Little Might Less Assemble
Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned. Jay Parini
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A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do. Jay Parini
God Argument Worship Muslims Long-Running Over Exists Same Whether View Certainly Christians
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