... to rob stage coaches and banks, terrorize outposts on the frontier. Or, he could be called a "Robin Hood." There are many who romanticized this period and called him a Robin Hood, since he would pillage towns that would not support him, then share the bounty with those ... suspected of palace coups, including his brother. Then he married his brother's wife, who was also his cousin. That's what did it for John the Baptist, for in Jewish eyes, that was incest. He condemned Herod for it. Herod put him in prison. Now ...
... that would help them be recognized by their neighbors as good people. Yet morals are difficult to learn and adopt. As Robin Lovin, Dean of Perkins School of Theology, has noted,2 most Christians do not realize how serious are the obstacles to ... hit by a car or having someone try to kidnap you or sell drugs to you. Then, when you had cooled off, grandparents, parents, cousins, aunts and uncles, living in fairly close proximity, gave you a wide area over which to spread your feelings. Our world is a lot ...
... memory and discovers scenes in which a shepherd boy defeated a Philistine Giant. Other photos in his memory bank portray that Robin Hood glen, where he recruited doughty mighty men eager and willing to fight for a nation’s freedom against godless foes. ... his kingdom. May God grant us the courage and loyalty needed to follow our pilgrim God with strength and fortitude. 1. Norman Cousins, Human Options, pp. 128-129, Berkley Books, New York, New York, 1981. 2. Herbert Lockyear, God’s Book of Poetry, Thomas ...
... animals pleaded with Seagull, asking him to open the box. Rabbit said, "If there is no light how will the grass grow and how will I eat?" Robin said, "If there is no light, how will my breast become red?" Fox said to Seagull, "If there is no light, how will I see the burr ... . Seagull held the box tighter and tighter. Finally, the very clever and crafty cousin, Raven, tried his hand to free the box. "What is in the box?" he queried cousin Seagull. "You know what's in the box," Seagull replied, "and it remains ...
... . The paint is fresh. And when disaster strikes, the fire fighters will attach their hoses to it, rather than its forlorn-looking cousin across the way. For deep underneath the street, the hydrant with the faded paint and the black band is connected to broken, ... in self-pity. "I had a `right' to feel self-pity," she says. Within the space of a year she lost her child Robin; her father died; and she came down with a crippling illness. An inner ear infection with serious complications gave her double vision, a ...
