... tell me where I can find diamonds?" The priest said, "Diamonds? What do you want with diamonds?" "I want to be immensely rich," said Al Hafed, "but I don't know where to go." "Well," said the priest, "if you will find a river that runs over white sand ... human nature. If you have no capital, I am glad of it. You don't need capital; you need common sense, not copper cents. A. T. Stewart, the great princely merchant of New York, the richest man in America in his time, was a poor boy; he had a dollar and a half ...
... awareness of the disease. Until the summer of 2014. Now all of sudden, thanks to the "Ice Bucket Challenge," new generations have not only been informed but also summoned to join in the fight against ALS. High school kids and college students, socialites and celebrities, Bill Gates and Martha Stewart, Will Smith and Oprah Winfrey, Triple H and George W. Bush — all have been online "tagged," digitally "dared," to participate in the "Ice Bucket Challenge." The "challenge" is threefold: 1) to be doused on ...
... what would have been a catering disaster!” That, too, is an interesting view of the wedding at Cana. However, with all apologies to Martha Stewart, the Jesus portrayed in this text is not the least bit concerned about saving people from social miscues. He seems totally unconcerned about etiquette. Jesus ... Wild and Windy Mountain (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1984), pp. 116-117. 2. Fred B. Craddock, et.al., Preaching the New Common Lectionary, Year C, Advent-Epiphany (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1987), p. 130.
... with some alternative bracelets: WWPMD for quarterbacks: “What Would Peyton Manning do?” Or WWMSD for homemakers, What would Martha Stewart do? Or DYWFWT for Liberal Arts graduates: “Do You Want Fries with That?” For teens, there was a ... before slavery was made illegal? Why were four little African American girls slaughtered in a church bombing in 1963 in Birmingham, AL? Why have innocent people been persecuted even in modern times because of their color, their gender, their sexual orientation? Why ...
