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Happy 85th birthday, Os Guinness (opens the original)
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Os Guinness, who is 85 today, spent the first decade of his life in China, where his parents were missionaries eventually forced out by Communists who seized power in 1949. Guinness became a prominent BBC journalist and a scholar, settling in the United States in 1984 and gaining fame as a speaker and the author or editor of more than 30 books. I interviewed him about his past and his latest book at that time, A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future (IVP).Was your fa
Chariots of Fire premiered in the US 45 years ago today (opens the original)
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One of my favorite movies, Chariots of Fire, opened in US theaters on Sept. 25, 1981. It’s the true story of two runners: Harold Abrahams, the fiercely competitive son of a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant, and Eric Liddell, a young Scottish minister. Abrahams saw sprinting as a way to gain vengeance on anti-Semites: “ten lonely seconds to justify my whole existence.” Liddell joyfully fused body and spirit as he disciplined himself to run for God’s glory: “[God] made me fast, and when I run, I feel H
Two follow-ups: Electricity and Beaches (Not For Cubans) and a New Home for an Iranian Refugee (Not in the U.S.) (opens the original)
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How did Artemis Ghasemzadeh become the face of migrants seeking asylum in the United States, only to be deported? The New York Times headline, Christian Convert Who Fled Iran and Was Ousted From U.S. Finds a New Home, tells the outcome, but the key was an earlier Times stor
Sunset on 9/11-- and it’s the first minute of the Jewish New Year’s Day that Ben Lazarus is celebrating (opens the original)
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I’m publishing this on Friday at 7:27 pm eastern time, sunset in New York City of a day of mourning remembrance: 25 years since 9/11/2001. That’s also the minute Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year’s Day, begins in New York City. (Jewish holidays begin at sundown, in the Genesis tradition: “And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.”)New York City still has the largest Jewish population in the world living within a particular city. (Metropolitan Tel Aviv, with 3.9 Jewish resident
New sanctions just announced: "No Es Facil" will help you understand the Cuban disaster (opens the original)
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ABC News, Sept. 3: HAVANA -- “The U.S. government on Thursday slapped new sanctions on Cuba in a fresh push to strangle the island’s economy and deepen its multiple crises.My take: “Cuba Under Siege,” the New York Times reported this summer regarding the country’s current “fuel shortage and humanitarian crisis.” But Cuba in
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