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Jerusalem and the temple were the center of the ruling elites and thus the center of the domination system. Like Jeremiah before him, he warned of their coming destruction if they did not change.
The Meaning of Jesus
Marcus J. Borg, N. T. Wright
Behold! For those who have learned to see — He gives, He gifts. He gifts with seeds as small as moments, grace upon grace, and the unlikely here and now, it shall sustain you, feed you. Do not disdain the small. The promise of feast is within the moments. Our enough is always in the now, because He never leaves us.
One Thousand Gifts Devotional
Zondervan
The awakening began quietly in 1977, when a British pediatrician named Roy Meadow came upon evidence that there were some people in the world—nearly always women—who faked or caused illnesses in their own children to gain attention and sympathy, particularly from the medical establishment. Meadow modified a memorable term that another British physician, Richard Asher, had applied in 1951 to people who invented their own illnesses for the same reason. Recalling the fanciful, fib-telling eighteenth century German baron Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Munchhausen, Asher had coined the name Munchausen syndrome. Roy Meadow added two words and published his observations in the prestigious British journal The Lancet, under the title: “Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: The Hinterland of Child Abuse.”
The Death of Innocents
Richard Firstman, Jamie Talan
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