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...The text intersperses sections from the Bible with words by former California poet laureate Dana Gioia, invoking first the Earth without form and void, followed by the wind, the waters, then blazing light...
...Third, he claims to serve God and urges anyone requesting insights into his political philosophy to pick up a copy of the Bible. But he is also a faithful servant of mammon....
...In the King James Bible, they’re the first animals created in the book of Genesis when He concocts the universe. He, like us, sees fragments of Himself in their gargantuan consciousness....
...Her bestselling debut, the anti-corporate No Logo (1999), became a bible for anti-globalisation activists. The Shock Doctrine (2007) critiqued free-market “shock therapy”....
...Prayer of 1662 was taken from the translation of Psalm 121 in the King James Bible of 1611....
...I chose to flee the Bible Belt heartland.”...
...I understand from Democratic politico friends that it’s harder to make gains in the Bible Belt than in libertarian red states like, say, Wyoming, with small populations that will vote more straightforwardly...
...Edward VII’s crown was set on his head the wrong way round....
...“Edward Benyon took over [management of the estate] about 15 years ago with a brief to ‘bring the area up’. Not just housing. Places like this café. They’re very particular about who they rent to.”...
...Wintour is about to announce that a longtime member of her staff, Vogue.com editor Chioma Nnadi, will be replacing Edward Enninful at the helm of British Vogue....
...Living in Vogue by Judy Brittain and Patrick Kinmonth (1985) is a legendary bible of style. Its blurb reads: “A house with true style perfectly complements its owner’s character and way of life.”...
...Choosing Donald Trump — the personification of profanity — as the bible belt’s standard bearer in 2016 arguably destroyed any remaining link....
...One longs for the bite that Edward St Aubyn brought to the subject in his 2014 novel Lost for Words. Likewise, several of Greer’s stylistic tics are laboured....
...Or to Madison Cawthorn, the North Carolina Republican, who said that offering vaccines door-to-door could lead to the government confiscating your bibles and guns....
...Thomas Friedman’s book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, which extolled the triumph of 1990s US-led globalisation, as “Das Kapital for Smart America”, in much the same way as Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is the bible...
...In the Bible, Jesus was described as the Archegos, the “author” of salvation....
...That may limit sales of On the House in America’s Bible belt. Everyone else will lap it up....
...The Bible is full of images of the shaping of people like the shaping of vessels on a potter’s wheel. It is also threaded with images of the brokenness of vessels....
...A quick rifle through the Bible and I find it again in archaic language in the Gospel of Matthew. A rich young man asks Jesus how to attain eternal life....
...Again and again in the Bible, they are invoked as evidence for the power of God: “So will you know that I am the LORD.”...
...After the tear gas had cleared from Lafayette Square last month, Ms Trump took a bible from her $1,540 Max Mara handbag and handed it to her father....
...Mr Trump says Mr Biden is “against God” and would “hurt the Bible”. Such differences cannot be split. It is all or nothing in 2020....
...The Land Gardeners: Cut Flowers by Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld has been our Bible....
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