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>> we were instructed that we had to lie to my parents all the time. >> i rarely had any interaction with anyone outside the group. even my parents, who lived nearby in ft. worth, had no idea i was in austin. >> hed send me all these little gifts from these places to prove where he was and write me these letters. and i still saw through it. and its sad and it broke our hearts really. >> bye, will. >> we just had to hope it would all work out. >> nice having you. >> my role increased in the buddh...

>> a lot of things he says, my father has done told me -- i told you. and im like here my dad says that all the time, with him being so much older than me if he feels like he can help me, hes going to give me his opinion. whether or not i take that sometimes i dont want to hear it. >> and im not his father so i cant tell him what to do. its simply up to him whether he want to or not. so thats why i cant force that issue. now if he was my son -- id tear his little butt up. coming up. >> in my g...

That all the time, with him being so much older than me if he feels like he can help me, hes going to give me his opinion. whether or not i take that sometimes i dont want to hear it. >> and im not his father so i cant tell him what to do. its simply up to him whether he want to or not. so thats why i cant force that issue. now if he was my son -- id tear his little butt up. coming up. >> in my game, this game of disciples, i hold the knowledge. >> alex everett faces the consequences of his ac...

The brain and it was a threatening concept. >> the 1980s is a period of time when the big impersonal giant machine that lives in a huge air conditioned room some place suddenly becomes something that sits on your desk. >> something is happening out there. something thats expanding your world. small computers are happening. >> as soon as we have intelligent machines creeping into our daily lives, into our factories, into our hospitals, into our businesses, then its going to be a new world out the...

Temple on a pilgrimage with his wife and two children. there, he meets a local tour guide. luff becomes enraptured by this mans passion for religion. his maim is jeffrey lungren. >> there were people saying this guy, jeffrey lundgren really knows it and is a special one. he taught sunday school classes there. >> a disagreement with church elders over his teaching practices pushes 37-year-old lundgren out of the temple. he moves his small group of followers to a nearby farm. >> it was roughly in ...

There he meet eye a local tour guide. he meets jeffrey lundgren. >> there are people saying this guy, jeffrey lundgren really knows it and hes a special one. and he taught sunday school classes there. >> but a disagreement with the church elders over his teaching practices pushes 37-year-old lundgren out of the temple. he moves his small group of followers to a nearby farm. >> it was roughly in 1987 is when i started to see jeff lundgren and his people move into the farm on u.s. route 6. >> jeff...

Just days before he will die on the cross, jesus takes his followers into jerusalem for the jewish passover. on the night that judas will betray him, jesus invites his disciples to share a last supper. >> jesus has to have the last supper in secret because he cant let the authorities know where hes going to be because its very important that he finish his last teaching and his last supper before he is seized and arrested violently. >> mary magdalene, mary the mother of jesus, theyre not

They are written by different authors than the new testament. they depict a growing tension between mary magdalene and jesuss other followers. >> the gospel of thomas, like other sources, suggests that marys role among the disciples was deeply resented by some of them, particularly peter. the way peter is described is irate and hot headed and bad tempered, somebody thats a difficult person. >> the lost gospel of thomas points to a surprising explanation for this tension between peter and mary. d...

>> having a brand new text to tell us about mary magdalene and the relationship between mary and jesus is really, really, exciting for us. >> the gospel picks up her story after jesus has risen from the dead. >> peter, i have seen the lord. >> tell us the words of the savior, what you remember. what you know but we do not. you have heard them. >> what is hidden from you, i will proclaim to you. >> the key point is that mary is the instructor. shes the teacher and the revealer to the other discip...

According to the bible, jesus ministry begins near the sea of galilee where he gathers his first disciples. >> here on the northwest shore of the sea of galilee is the area where the gospels most often locate activities, miracles, teachings of jesus. >> one of the coastal villages is magdala. was it here that jesus first met mary? >> mary magdalene means mary of magdala. she was from magdala which is just over the hill behind me. >> a woman in distress. what the gospel of luke calls a case of de...