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 Post subject: For Christ's Sake
PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:16 am 
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A Time magazine article about missionaries trying to convert Muslims to Christianity says:<p> (Throughout this article, for the safety of missionaries working in potentially hostile environments or returning to them, pseudonyms are used. They will be indicated on first usage by quotation marks. Many locations will also be omitted.) <p>***The article described a training session at which an instructor used her real name. Why would anonymity be granted? A cynic might suggest that the missionaries profit from anonymity in ways that have nothing to do with safety. Not using the woman's name protects her and the magazine from scrutiny. (Also, Time, listen up: If you're going to withhold someone's name, don't make up a name to use in your articles. An excuse along the lines of "the story is easier to write with a phony name" is unacceptable.)***


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 Post subject: Re: For Christ's Sake
PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:18 am 
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The article reports:<p>In societies in which state and mosque are closely intertwined, in which defamation of Islam is a crime and conversion out of it can invite vigilante violence, the more audacious missionaries are engaged, intentionally or not, in provocation, and their actions are debated even within the evangelical community.<p>***So Time has taken it upon itself to protect the missionaries from their own provocative behavior or stupidity?***


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 Post subject: Re: For Christ's Sake
PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:30 am 
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For Maddie Weinreich, sex had always been a joy. It helped her recharge her batteries and reconnect with her husband, Roger. But teaching yoga, raising two kids and starting up a business—not to mention cooking, cleaning and renovating the house—left her exhausted. She often went to bed before her husband, and was asleep by the time he joined her. Their once steamy love life slowly cooled. When Roger wanted to have sex, she would say she was too beat. He tried to be romantic; to set the mood he’d light a candle in their bedroom. “I would see it and say, ‘Oh, God, not that candle’,” Maddie recalls. “It was just the feeling that I had to give something I didn’t have.” (Newsweek)<p>***Then again, maybe there's something to protecting people from themselves.***<p>Image
Tara and Chris Paterson nearly stopped having sex altogether after Adam (center) and Caden were born.<p>***I'm sure Adam and Caden will be happy a few years down the line about the picture that went with the Newsweek story.***<p>Image<p>***Don't get me started on Web "polls."***<p>[ June 23, 2003: Message edited by: blanp ]</p>


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 Post subject: Re: For Christ's Sake
PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 10:04 am 
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This is my third marriage. I am voting "I Don't Know."


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 Post subject: Re: For Christ's Sake
PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 6:02 am 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr><p>***Don't get me started on Web "polls."***<p>[ June 23, 2003: Message edited by: blanp ][/QB]<hr></blockquote><p>The "interactive" novelty wore off around 1997.


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 Post subject: Re: For Christ's Sake
PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 10:17 am 
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Thanks for the picture. It enabled me to change the channel quickly when the couple turned up on CNN and the Today Show this morning.


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