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Published on: 12-29-2020
As a child I enjoyed a series of biblical cartoons that were very well done, both for their artistic quality and for their respectful adaptation of the biblical text. These cartoons re-created various stories from the New Testament. Now that I am a father, I still find myself watching these Bible lessons from time to time with my children.
One of the stories included in this animated series is the well-known parable of the 10 virgins (Matt. 25:1-13). Toward the end of the parable, when the bridegroom addresses the foolish virgins, we hear an answer that in many ways captures the spirit of the biblical text: “If you are my friends, why didn’t you come when I announced it? . . . I don’t know you; I’m sorry.”
At once fascinating, fun and scholarly, ‘Gin’ distills appreciation for an enduring quaff
Shonna Milliken Humphrey has written a memoir, a novel and now an ode to gin.
By Thomas Urquhart
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Some years ago, I discovered Greenall’s gin – on special at Heathrow’s Duty Free shop. It was love at first sip. From then on, a bottle was a prize from every trip abroad. Until last January. At the airport, Greenall’s was everywhere I looked: wild berry gin, blueberry gin, blood orange and fig gin. But of the “classic London Dry Gin handcrafted by England’s oldest gin distillery since 1761” – simple unadulterated Greenall’s – not a drop. Surely, today’s gin craze has gone too far.
staff writer at the new yorker and cnn global affairs analyst. great to see you. one of the defining characteristics of republicans in the senate has been their reluctance to criticize or speak out against lots of things over the past couple of years with president trump. so why now? why has this syria decision changed things for them? that s right. it s been one of the central paradoxes of the trump era. the silence of the republicans. and, you know, they have these object lessons in what happens when you criticize trump publicly. you know, some of their brethren who did, bob corker, jeff flake driven out of the senate, collapsing republican support for them. and it just it strikes you as this almost incredible, weird hypocrisy on the part of republicans to be so vocal. lindsey graham who flatters the president at every turn is out there now saying it s a disaster for the presidency. it s the worst decision he s made.
time space continuum. and we are here on a crucial day, in all seriousness, in american history. we can lift up beyond the question of impeachment by talking about lawlessness for a moment. do you think the president understands right from wrong? it s a very serious question. do you think he has the capacity to understand that remember, this phone call happened, just using it as an example, it happened the day after mueller testified. there s some object lessons in the whole mueller case for a president about talking to foreign powers about interventions in elections. do you think that and you probably have a dozen or two dozen examples if you re not sure if the president s moral compass is true north. do you think, based on your now significant 2.5 year plus exposure to him, that he understands right from wrong in the way other
bit backstage. do you think the president understands right from wrong? no, it s a very serious question. do you think he has the capacity to understand that he might? this phone call happened as we think, just using the phone call as an example, it happened the day after mueller testified. there s some object lessons in the whole mueller case for a president about talking to foreign powers about intervention and elections. do you think that and you probably have a dozen or two dozen other examples where not sure if the president s moral compass is true north. do you think based on your now significant two and a half year plus exposure to him that he understands right from wrong in the way that two years and nine months. it s 13 and a half months until you know. let me say that the president is