Status Updates From Change They Can't Believe I...

"The readers of Luke's gospel, like most people in the ancient world, did not make sharp distinctions between myth and reality; the two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal--indeed, expected--for a writer in he ancient world to tell tall tales of gods and heros...."

So far, I'm really enjoying the reading I get in of this book. It's like reading an article in "the Nation", but longer.

"...based on the enduring impact of race on American social and political life, we must consider how, if at all, it may influence arguable the most vigorous movement in the last thirty years. Indeed, similar to the arguments that Americans continue to have over the size of government and economic freedom (among other types of freedom), racism and out-group hostility are also foundational to American life."