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Reopen the suspended hotline with the south the communications link of the countrys border had been disconnected since two thousand and sixteen the two koreas have been making overtures of ours improving ties since new years eve after north koreas kim jong un signaled that he wanted to say hes athletes at next months winter olympics in the south. well melissa charge is a follower of the robert bosch foundation and a journalist specializing in that asian affairs welcome to the w what does this an...

You were poor. i mean, i think thats a fair statement. did you feel poor? i felt poor after the first and the 15th. the first and the 15th, when payday come, wed go to shoprite, piggly wiggly, get all the food, but living with a brother and sisters, that was quickly gone. so, you know, the last four or five days before the first and the 15th, we felt really, really poor. levin: so when you grew up in newark, there was nothing but poverty around you. i think you were born five years after the new...

An incredible -- hes an incredible humanitarian ministry thats been on the front lines o often before a lot of ministries have been there. i think he probably needs to stick to doing that. i think he believes hes speaking to a larger audience than he is. i think the audience he was once speaking to is starting to migrate to a little more progressive open mindedness. >> you do you believe -- clearly your uncle does, do you believe donald trump is a man of strong faith, has he shown that to you? >...

Most likely, mary was a close friend of jesus and a follower, but not his wife. >> what the gospel of phillip clearly says is that there is some kind of a favored relationship between mary magdalene and jesus. that jesus does care for her more than the other disciples. and thats all it really tells us. >> but some scholars believe the nag hammadi texts do reflect a genuine tension between mary and peter. >> i think the tension thats reflected in some of the texts outside of the bible, i think th...

Often on the lips? or is it something rather less racy, rather less potentially sexualized? is it just kissed her often on the forehead, kissed her on the feet. >> so if you happen to be a fan of dan brown "da vinci code," theres a scene where they quote from the gospel of phillip, jesus loved mary magdalene more than the other disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth or on the lips. this is the passage that hes referring to here. when we actually see the manuscript, its just not that c...

>> mary magdalene seems atypical for a jewish woman of her time. most jewish women in the galilee would have been in some kind of domestic setting, either as a daughter or a mother or a wife, but to be out in the wilderness with a itinerant preacher with a name that does not link her to any man is unusual. >> but in the case of mary, it seems her role goes well beyond that of a simple spiritual follower. >> one of the things that mary brought to the jesus movement was she had money, she had reso...

>> but whatever truth they may contain, the nag hammadi texts are not considered as reliable as the new testament gospels written decades earlier. >> whats striking about matthew, mark, luke and john, is that theyre first century documents. early on the christian movement crystallizes around those. as other ones pop up, theyre not trusted and not in the sense authoritative like those first four gospels. >> what the new testament tells us is that mary is at jesus side at the time of his crucifixi...

Being with jesus gave them a sense of identity and self-worth in a way that they often didnt find in ordinary society. >> mary magdalene seems atypical for a jewish woman of her time. most jewish women in the galilee would have been in some kind of domestic setting, either as a daughter or a mother or a wife, but to be out in the wilderness with a itinerant preacher with a name that does not link her to any man is unusual. >> but in the case of mary, it seems her role goes well beyond that of a ...

Might be a grain of historical truth there. >> but whatever truth they may contain, the nag hammadi texts are not considered as reliable as the new testament gospels written decades earlier. >> whats striking about matthew, mark, luke and john, is that theyre first century documents. early on the christian movement crystallizes around those. as other ones pop up, theyre not trusted and not in the sense authoritative like those first four gospels. >> what the new testament tells us is that mary i...

Something special. perhaps that was the moment where he came to acknowledge jesus was not just his brother but also his lord. >> james life is transformed. now from doubting brother, he will become jesus most devoted follower and help shape a new world religion. make something for dinner.