this book is about jesus the man, not so much jesus the christ. >> it's about the historical jesus, not christ of faith. but, i mean, the fact of the matter is whether you believe that jesus was god incarnate, god made flesh or not, you believe that he was also man, and if he was man, then he lived in a specific time and place, and that time and place kind of matters. it's like if you really want to know who he was, you have to put his words and his actions in the context of the world in which he lived. the teachings have to be seen according to the social ills that he confronted and the political forces that he confronted. >> john: i loved this book. >> thanks. >> john: and the time and place in which he lived, it was total, total chaos, possibly the most chaotic time in that region, and that region is the middle east. [laughter] >> yeah. >> that's a high crazy bar. >> this was only the most tumultuous era in the holy land, which as you say is saying a lot, a time of apocalyptic fervor, a time in which we're slowly moving towards this huge jewish revolt against the roman empire that ul

just say jesus needs my lunch. i just paid my taxes and is y'all ain't going to mess me up with my jesus. unless you are going to our range to feed these hungry people i am in trouble. if i'm in trouble you are going to be in trouble. [applause] ..

and the likes of jesus?well, look, i watch fox news. anybody who watches fox news knows that there is an inherent anti-muslim bias in their reporting and has been for quite some time. it's very successful for them. i don't blame them for it. they're a commercial enterprise. they know how to sell a product and frankly fear sells a product. i want to say one quick thing. look, i feel really bad for lauren green. you know this, alex. anybody on their show knows this that lauren was sitting there being yelled at by some producer in her ear trying her hardest -- >> i'm getting yelled at right now. go ahead. >> exactly. exactly. so -- i mean, also to be perfectly frank, what i liked about what's happened is this is not even about me anymore, that it's become this larger discussion in this country about media, journalism, politics, faith. as a writer, that's just great. i'm just a bystander at this point watching this conversation take place. >> but i do -- i do want be to talk about the book and what you prefer, w

and jesus said -- and he felt such a strong love.nd when he saw that vision, he came to me and he told me, and he was a changed person. >> wendy: you got saved based on your brother's dream about jesus? >> but we're twins, so we're so close. i just saw he was so shaken. and so i accepted christ at that age -- >> wendy: talk about child-like faith. >> it has been an amazing journey. >> wendy: naghmeh, exactly what was he doing when he was arrested last summer? >> he was working on an orphanage that the government approved. he was working with the government -- we started on the orphanage since 2009, and the kids and i had gone with him in 2011 and stayed there a few months. >> wendy: he was there under government approval? >> they had approved it, and he was working with them. >> wendy: you have two young children. how are they coping? i know they must be missing their dad terribly? >> it has been hard. recently i shared a video on my facebook that shows jacob crying, saying jesus, i love you, bring daddy home. they sent out balloons

world, as muslims begin their holiest month, christians are asking god to give them a revelation of jesus christ. plus, revival that shaped america. they called it the great awakening, and it ignited a diverse block of colonies into one nation under god. and the joy of adoption. meet the extraordinary couple who have so many kids from so many countries, someone said its like having the united nations in suburbia. ♪ >> well, welcome to christian world news. i'm gary lane. george thomas and wendy griffith are on vacation. muslims around the world begin their holy month of ramadan this week. it is an intense time of prayer and fasting. it lasts about 30 days. observers abstain from food, drink, and other pleasures, from sunrise to sunset, with the goal of purifying the body and focusing the mind on spiritual pursuits. observing ramadan is one of the five pillars of islam. it is also a time when christians pray for the islamic world, asking god to reveal to them the truth about jesus christ. joining us now is tom doyle, the middle east director for e-3 partners ministry, and author of the boo

and we'll be right back. >> braz' brazil's march for jesus saw a huge turnout.eets. it gathers more participants than the gay pride parade and the south carnival. some celebrated independence day helping free children from starvation and hunger. thethese volunteers in washington, d.c. hope to package over a thousand s. they provide food to children and their families in 60 countries worldwide. donald berwell says one-third of the packs will be shipped to haiti. another third will go to hungry families in the washington, d.c. area. >> we were amazed to find out here in the d.c. area, one in every two of the youth are nutritionally challenged. >> berwell says 20,000 children die each day worldwide due to lack of food and proper nutrition. find out more about kids against hunger and how your church or school can help, just log on to cbnnews.com. that's all for this edition of christian world news. i've enjoyed being with you. hope you enjoyed our show. until next week, good-bye and god bless you. as we celebrate our nation's birthday, we're going to take a look at

as you talk about the historical jesus and the context?says "reza aslan is not a new testament scholar. his book is educated amateur summary and synthesis of a particularly skeptical but quite long-established line of new testament scholarship presented to us as simple fact." what do you say to that? >> i think the opinion about the scholarship is perfectly fine. that's a good opinion. i actually cite all the scholars who disagree with every single point that i make in the book. and i cite all the scholars who agree with me. i mean, it turns out that people have been writing about jesus for a very, very long time. and so, you know, i'm immersed in that studies. but to the credentials part, and i really hate doing this because there is nothing more annoying than somebody having to talk about his credentials, but all right, here we go again. my bachelor is from santa clara university, in scripture and tradition which is fancy talk for new testament. i have fluency in biblical greek. master's of theological study from harvard. my ph.d. course

this is not a book about christianity, because jesus was a jew. it's about judaity. >> i came from a muslim family, came to the united states in 1979 at a time in which it wasn't such a great idea to be a muslim in the '80s. not much has changed i guess, nowadays, but really when i was 15, i heard the gospel message for the first time, and it had a profound effect on me. converted to evangelical christianity, and then when i went to a catholic jesuit institution and really began an academic in depth study of the new testament, all of a sudden i realized there was this distance between the historical figure that i was learning about and the christ that i was introduced to in church. and although i really kind of went away from the christian faith and really went back to the faith and practice of my forefathers, i became incredibly interested in jesus, the man, and spent the next 20 years studying him, really trying to mold my life after him. he truly is my hero. >> reza, it's good to talk to you. the book is called zealot, the life and times of jes

jesus christ said all of the truth hear my voice.y father will [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can could you read the adoption calendar? >> items 53 through 56 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single roll call vote may enact these items. if a member objects a matter may be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, would anyone like to sever these items? supervisor farrell. >> 54, please. >> and the balance of the calendar, roll call. >> supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolutions are adopted. [gavel] >> item 54. >> item 54

." >> wilfredo de jesus became pastor of new life covenant church in chicago a dozen years ago.n in chicago to a puerto rican mother, de jesus, like many in his congregation, is not fluent in spanish. >> our primary language is english, yet we still love our culture, we still love our rice and beans, we still love our music, but we love to hear the word of god in the language that we can understand. >> under de jesus, the church added services in english and experienced explosive growth. new life is now the biggest assembly of god church in the country, drawing more than 17,000 worshipers a week at multiple campuses. many grew up catholic but found in evangelical churches something they longed for. >> every time i come to a service i always get something new. i always have something to work toward. i feel like the love of everybody, we're like a family and i feel just loved and appreciated. >> i think it's just a personal touch. it's about you being with god, you being with jesus, you having a personal relationship with him, and how that affects the rest of your life, every sing

you have to do two things to jesus. bit less revolutionary. two, you have to remove all blame for his death from rome. what we know about pontius pilate, what we are certain about from the histories, is that this was a brutal, blood thirsty man who, on a regular basis, sent his troops out on to the streets of jerusalem to slaughter the jews when they disagreed with the slightest of his decisions. the notion that this is a man -- let me just quickly -- >> so you're saying suggesting -- i hear what you're saying about pontius pilate. so you're suggesting that basically the new testament is fiction. >> no, what i'm saying is the new testament is myth, and myth isn't fiction. you have to understand what we differentiate between facts and truth is a differentiation that the ancient mind would have no conception of. for them, what was important wasn't the actual facts of an event. they wouldn't even know what you were talking about. for then, the importance was truth. what they wanted to do was create a narrative of jesus tha

jesus on the mound.ot lest thee be judged and goes on and says why are you lookingly at the speck in another person's eyes when you have a plank in your own? this has been at the center of jesus's teachings. leave the judging to god. the fact that some get so angry the pope was paraphrasing what jesus christ said this his ministry is remarkable. it is a really positive statement not on the policy of gay priests, hets face it, "the washington post" had a talk with the fact that the cath hicks were filled with gay priests. cemeteries filled with gi men wants profit. this is the reality. this has been the reality in the catholic church skpp i think this statement goes not only to gay priests, but a much larger world view that this pope is willing to express. that also happens to be what the world view of jesus christ was which this church is supposed to be built upon, the teachings of jesus christ. the statement, who am i to judge is an unassailable statement. because again it comes straight out of matthew.

but not jesus.un for president. can you imagine that campaign? wouldn't the fundamentalists really want to vote for jesus? a guy who hung out with lepers, hookers and criminals, he didn't speak english. anti-wealth, anti-possession anti-greed, anti-death penalty anti-public prayer. never once anti-gay, never mentioned premarital sex never justified torture. never called the poor lazy never fought for tax cuts, and was a long haired, brown skinned homeless, community organizing, womens rights, outrageously liberal jew. republican, may all your people of all faiths, or no faiths act like jesus without feeling the need of forcing his unauthorized fan clubs on us. happy birthday america. when i call you a cancer, i only meant your astrology sign. thank you to tina dupuy, l. joy williams, and frank conniff. happy independence day have a safe and healthy weekend. good night mom. >> joy: tonight we're talking sex and food, two of my deadly sins. all of that and more next on "say anything." [ ♪ theme music

you know i don't see that is the role of government and i don't think jesus depended on the government you know order to provide for the people in fact he said that it was the government i mean you know i respectfully disagree and that jesus. defined what the role of government should be in fact i think it was remarkably he. sort of distinguished between what is caesar's and what is not. and so so as i look to the outing entrepreneurs and and interpret their reference to general welfare i'm seeing. that the government can create to foster individual creation and production and if mark work. i get time i would love to continue the conversation longer i'm sorry mark david henderson thank you very much for being with us all thank you tom good luck with your. in scrutineers the united states and the european union are currently negotiating the largest trade deal in human history but chances are you've never heard of the transatlantic free trade agreement otherwise known as taft has the potential to radically change everything from food safety inspection standards to copyright law but like

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now john the baptist was the best and jest said i'm better than him >> jesus began to say onto the crowds. what went you out to see a man clothed in soft ram it is not necessary. for this is whom it the written behold i send my messenger before you. those who are born among women there has not risen higher than the john the baptist. now john was not worth to unleash the sandal. come onto me all you that are heavy laden >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm executive director of library urges association. the library has been stall on providing some information and no wonder our san francisco library is by far the richest libraries of all the libraries reported from an unanimous book serving one half to one million people. how rich is san francisco library. the medium and mean budgets for the libraries in this group is 28 and $38 million. san francisco public libraries budget was when this was reported $92 million more than triple the average. now why do i talk about the san francisco library because we should be getting the best service from that library and we're not

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that's a huge advance. >> reporter: jesus is having both of his eyes treated in just seconds. >> andyou'll see a green flashing light. >> reporter: the speed and precision of the laser also dramatically reduces the need for additional touch-up procedures. jesus is expected to have 20/20 vision in a week or two. >> and open your eyes. >> reporter: instead of the three months of recovery needed with other types of prk procedures. sam had the same procedure. >> i was within two weeks able to see perfectly and back at work sitting at my computer desk. i think it was a real testament to the laser's ability. >> reporter: jesus hopes his surgery will be just as successful. he's looking to starting a new chapter in his life, one without glasses and contacts. surgery does pose a slight risk of infection and the procedure costs between $3,000 and $4,000 an eye. and it is not covered by insurance. marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >> thanks. >>> out of hiding and back in the headlines. tonight news from police surrounding george zimmerman. (sir can-a-lot) good day, ma' lady. i am sir can-a-lot

but jesus is just as important.about moses in a negative way like smoking pot or something like that. muslims angered by that going how dare you make fun of moses. people don't realize the real practicing muslims, jesus, mohammed, moses are all on the same level. we don't worship mohammed in any way whatsoever. it is about god. the reason people get upset is they don't want you to worship mohammed. it is not that mohammed is sacrosanct. don't make him like jesus. just pray to god. >> stephanie: right. dean, i don't know if you saw the other -- really bad analogies edition that green quoted a critic, a muslim writing a book about jesus would be be like a democrat writing a book about why ronald reagan wasn't a good republican. he had a great response. he said it would be like a democrat with a ph.d. in reagan who had been studying history for two decades writing about reagan. he said i think the fundamental problem here is you're assuming i have some sort of faith-based bias. i right about hinduism and christianity a

that's not christian behavior by pretty much any metric for example in matthew twenty five jesus was very specific about what it means to be a christian he said for i was hungry and you gave me something to eat i was thirsty and you gave me something to drink i was a stranger and you took me in i was naked and you quote me i was sick and you took care of me i was in prison and you visited me. by the criteria of matthew twenty five the republican party is not a party jesus would recognize earlier this month republicans voted to cut billions in spending from the snap food stamps program over the next ten years and nearly three million americans would have lost food assistance just in the next year as a result meanwhile republicans have repeatedly filibustered or blocked legislation to help homeless veterans have tried to cut programs like section eight housing which provides affordable housing to low income residents and have cut funding to homeless shelters nationwide just last year according to the department of housing and urban development congressman rand paul's republican austeri

and about our lord jesus christ? i think listen. they might be able to change my mind.ut short of that, isn't global warming a hard sell? >> yes. here is an exact kind of flow idea because what we have to do now is painful to solve these problems, whether it's a carbon tax or conservation or any of a number of options for dealing with global warming for the delayed gratification of saving the planet >> stephen: now you write about innovation. >> yeah stephen: why write about innovation in a magazine? ( applause ) because i still believe in being able to talk to people and be able to change minds >> stephen: language is the ultimate slow idea. thank you so much for joining me. [ cheers and applause ] from the new yorker, dr. ahul hul. we'll be right back. euu)r hsq@q@,x-x [ cheers and applause ] >> stephen: that's it for the report, everyb captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org - ladies and...wayman. direct your attention to the front of the room for a short video presentation. [rapping] - ♪ they found me ♪ in the w

lord jesus christ son of god have mercy on the. program from moscow but never spent time with harlots before as a religious man he dreamed of becoming a priest he has always believed that there should be no sex before marriage and for many years he searched for a good orthodox girl does in fact was his motive for taking part in the procession in the first place. trying to meet girls to have a relationship but building a family always failed usually we felt the same about each other she wouldn't like me and i wouldn't like her i always felt there was something wrong with me i know i make decent money. i'm an interesting guy and i'm not unattractive i never met anyone i felt right about i'd already stopped looking by the time i met elaine i didn't expect to start a family in truth i tried to get used to the fact that i'd always be alone. they miss a year ago on the first day of last year's procession nicholai off for the unusual pilgrim girl a cup of tea she accepted when we sat next to my tent and talked a lot then she said she didn

time for tip of the day about you and jesus in a moment.he mail, i was glad to hear someone like you address the problem of fatherless homes. you'll be attacked as racist for speaking the truth. riley, who do you think you are telling blacks how to live their lives? as much as you right wing silver spoon white males want to believe slavery has nothing to do with the current situation you are wrong, you are a despicable racist. mark clay burn, east vale california. it's troubling our leaders don't key in on the truth. simon ole sung city, arizona. you call and karl rove and bernie gold better berg are not black, therefore you can only assume the difficulties of being african-americ african-american. bill, you're exactly right about black children, it is shameful our leaders have done little to encourage the restoration of the black family. kelly herbst in wisconsin, you are blibd to your own sex iism. sorry you can't handle the truth. the problems all begin out of wedlock pregnancies. only one person at a time can stop that. my heartbeat fas

maybe it will be different, #jesus." and a lot of prayers, a lot of calls for people to pray for the family and for our country. and let's also go to lana dunham, treater of the hbo series "girls." she writes simply a two-letter sta start, "no. my heart is with sybrina fulton, rachel jeantel everyone who loved trayvon and has been sent the message that his life did not matter." kate, chris? >> i think most people would agree, people, their hearts and prayers are with the family of